Greenwood's Stellar Season Amid Marseille's Struggles

Marseille’s season has lurched from frustration to flat disappointment, but one story has refused to follow the script. While the club stumbled through a turbulent campaign and a mid-season change in the dugout, Greenwood kept scoring – relentlessly, almost defiantly.

Habib Beye’s appointment in February was meant to jolt OM back to life. The bounce never truly came. Performances stuttered, results sagged, and the Velodrome’s familiar roar often turned into a nervous murmur. In the middle of it all, Greenwood carried the attack, finishing with 26 goals in all competitions and dragging Marseille through games they had little right to take anything from.

This week, that individual brilliance received its official stamp of approval. The 24-year-old forward was named in the Ligue 1 Team of the Year, a nod from the league that, even in a flawed side, his level has rarely dipped. He has 16 league goals and six assists to his name – numbers that stand out even more when set against the team’s collective inconsistency.

Collecting his award, Greenwood did not hide how conflicted the season has felt. The campaign, he admitted, has been “sometimes difficult collectively, especially in recent months,” yet on a personal level he knows he has delivered. He spoke warmly of Ligue 1, calling it “a wonderful league” with “incredible matches” and, crucially for Marseille fans, he ended with a simple wish: “I hope I can stay.”

Those words cut straight through weeks of transfer noise. His form has inevitably turned heads across the continent. Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund – the names circling around him underline just how far his stock has risen. In another context, with a fractured dressing room and a club searching for direction, a summer departure might already feel like a done deal.

But Marseille hold a strong hand. Greenwood is tied to the club until June 2029, a long-term contract that gives OM both time and leverage. They are under no pressure to sell quickly or cheaply. The real question now sits in the boardroom: do they build the next phase of the project around their most reliable goalscorer, or do they decide that this is the moment to cash in at maximum value?

That decision will not be made in isolation. Sunday brings a game that could tilt the club’s short-term future. Marseille host Rennes in a straight shootout for Europe, a final-day fixture loaded with consequence. OM sit sixth on 56 points, three behind fifth-placed Rennes and only two ahead of AS Monaco in seventh. A top-six finish is the minimum requirement to stay in continental competition next season. One bad afternoon and the season’s struggles could end without Europe, without momentum, and with even more uncertainty.

On the pitch, the narrative sharpens further. The match doubles as a Golden Boot decider. Greenwood, four goals behind Rennes striker Esteban Lepaul, has one last chance to close the gap. It is a daunting margin for a single game, yet his season has been built on moments where logic said stop and he kept going.

So it comes to this: a restless club, a star forward at the peak of his powers, and a finale that will help shape both his future and Marseille’s. When the whistle blows on Sunday, will OM be looking at Greenwood as the man to lead them back to the top, or as the asset whose sale funds another rebuild?