“Greenwood’s behaviour is unspeakable, unacceptable,” Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan told French radio station RMC on Tuesday. "Hitting his wife … I saw images that deeply shocked me. Massacring his wife in this way is unbecoming of a man and he cannot have his place on this team.

“The values ​​of OM and Marseille are anything but that in fact. It’s a shame. I will ask [Marseille president] Pablo Longoria not to recruit Greenwood. I don’t want my club to be covered with the shame of someone who hits his wife.”