OM's sports director, Gregory Lorenzi, was interested in Neal Maupay's profile two years ago, when he was still working at Brest. In an interview given two years ago to B/R Football, Gregory Lorenzi, former sports director of Stade Brestois 29, showed great interest in the profile of a certain Neal Maupay (29 years old). To the point of proposing his name to Eric Roy, already coach of the Ti-Zefs at the time. « We were looking for a striker and I told my coach: « I have the striker we need, it's Neal Maupay. » He has a difficult temperament to manage but it's also this character that makes the quality of the player. And of character, you need to have it in your team », said at the time the native of Bastia. In August 2024, Maupay eventually joined OM, from Everton. So he did not know Lorenzi in Finistère, the French striker, who recently made a point about his future, could meet him this summer in Provence… and next season ?