Chairman: Cisse's heart in Marseille

Djibril Cisse “already considers himself a Marseille player”, according to the French club’s chairman Pape Diouf.

Diouf claims he is talking to the outcast Liverpool striker every day and the Merseysiders, who today denied making a bid for Real Betis winger Joaquin, are on the brink of sanctioning a season-long loan deal that will take Cisse to the south of France.