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Club president Pablo Longoria says Marseille "looked astatine each the information" erstwhile signing Mason Greenwood from Manchester United and that helium has nary regrets implicit the deal.
Greenwood, 22, near Old Trafford successful a £26.6m woody with the French nine successful August, signing until 2029.
Serious charges against Greenwood, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped successful February 2023.
But Marseille person faced disapproval from the section major, who described the determination arsenic "not acceptable" erstwhile the club's volition to motion the forward, who spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Getafe successful Spain, went public.
When asked whether specified disapproval has led to regrets astir the move, Longoria said astatine the Thinking Football Summit: "The comments of the politician reenforce what we did, [they did] not person each the information.
"We took the determination internally. OK, determination was immoderate opposition, that was objective, but astatine the aforesaid clip that gave america powerfulness to possibly not investigate, due to the fact that I americium not a judge, but to usage each the accusation to instrumentality the champion decision, which I deliberation we did."
He added: "In our precise archetypal speech with the manager [Roberto de Zerbi] we mentioned Mason's name.
"The manager knew Mson from the past and it was a precise speedy speech astatine the commencement betwixt each of america due to the fact that we judge successful the endowment of Mason.
"There were a batch of conversations betwixt each of america successful the weeks starring up to his move. He is behaving fantastically with america and we are precise blessed to person him playing successful our team."
Greenwood has scored 5 goals successful 3 matches since joining the Ligue 1 club.
However, England's caretaker manager Lee Carsley said "he wasn't a subordinate we considered" erstwhile asked astir his imaginable engagement successful the nationalist team.
Longoria said helium could not explicate wherefore Greenwood is not being considered by England, adding: "I don't privation to reply that benignant of question retired of respect to everybody.
"I similar to speech astir what Mason is doing successful France and Marseille and we are precise blessed with the benignant of performances that helium is doing during the archetypal weeks arsenic well."
Greewood's goals person helped Marseille bask an undefeated commencement aft a extremist overhaul of the squad for caller manager De Zerbi, who joined aft leaving Brighton this summer.
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