While the Press announced, on Sunday, contact between Mamadou Niang and Fenerbahce, Didier Deschamps, stated after the RLD Trophy win over Valencia (1-0), that there was no way the Senegalese striker was leaving Marseille. “It is cut and dried. There is no point even talking about it. I didn’t just make my mind up today, I am counting on him and he knows it. Sometimes when you close a door, these rumours come in through the window or down the chimney …”