Drogba and Nasri deal fears as Marseille face transfer probe

Three former presidents of the French league leaders detained as part of police investigation

Didier Drogba

Was it a dodgy deal that took Didier Drogba to Chelsea? That's one of the questions being investigated by French police after Marseille FC president Vincent Labrune, and his two predecessors, Jean-Claude Dassier and Pape Diouf, were detained on Tuesday night. French paper Le Parisien reports that the trio were released from custody in the early hours of Thursday but that the investigation – which has been running for three years – continues.

The police action has rocked French football and plunged Marseille – currently top of Ligue 1 – into a crisis 20 years after they were found guilty of match-fixing.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.