Ben Arfa is staying with Marseille

Marseille has confirmed that Hatem Ben Arfa will remain at the club at least until the end of the season. There were a lot of speculations that the talent winger will leave the team due to the clash with  coach Deschamps. The young player was frustrated  that he was rubbing the bench for almost the whole first half of the season. However in the last weeks of 2009 Ben received more minutes which helped for warming up the relationship between both parties.

Not so well is the situation with Valbuena. After his public criticism of Deschamps he was left entirely out of the squad. The club have put 4 million price tag for the forward and hope  they will separate with him in the winter transfer window.