"It's the agents who want to make money on transfers. My agents, at the time, between the transfers from Chateauroux to Lens, from Lens to Marseille, Marseille to Paris, Paris to Inter, everything they picked up Not one of them told me it was better to do something else, career-wise That I should settle down It was mainly Eric Di Meco and Jean-Philippe Durand, who were sporting directors at the time, who told me to leave."
"They reached an agreement with Tottenham and Newcastle. I had Eric Di Meco call me and tell me that there was an agreement with these two clubs. I told him that there was no way I was going abroad. It was either I stay in Marseille, or they find me another French club, and there aren't fifty: Monaco, Lyon, Paris The deal was made for 70 at PSG, even though I wanted to stay in Marseille."
Stephane Dalmat says his transfer moves were driven by agents and sporting directors rather than his own decisions. He describes a pattern of frequent transfers from Chateauroux to Lens, Lens to Marseille, Marseille to Paris, Paris to Inter and beyond, with agents collecting fees and failing to advise long-term stability. Dalmat reports that Eric Di Meco and Jean-Philippe Durand agreed deals with Tottenham and Newcastle and urged him to leave, despite his preference to stay in Marseille. He states that a lack of youth-academy training, continual club changes and an inappropriate entourage left him without continuity, opportunities for settling, or proper career advice.
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