Former Olympique Marseille fitness coach Jan van Wikel has revealed how the club missed out on N'Golo Kante and Idrissa Gueye.

Marseille were in for both Chelsea midfielder Kante and Everton's Gueye before they left France for England.

Van Wikel recalled to L'Equipe: "Two days before the beginning of preseason, Marcelo (Bielsa) tells me that he will go home.

"There was a stumbling block with the club board about the recruitment of N'Golo Kanté and Idrissa Gueye. The management wanted them later in the summer because they thought their price would drop in the course of the negotiations."