Unlike Pierre Sage, Jean-Louis Leca has sworn loyalty to RC Lens. However, according to L'Equipe on Friday, citing information from Foot Mercato, Olympique de Marseille had indeed targeted him, about a month ago, to take the vacant sports director position left by Medhi Benatia, and finally recovered by Grégory Lorenzi. Leca, who had the possibility of quintupling his salary by accepting the Marseille offer, immediately informed the Lens general manager Benjamin Parrot. The Corsican gave himself 48 hours of reflection before concluding that his mission in the Pas-de-Calais was not over, and therefore signified to OM that he would not accept the proposal.