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Marseille sports director José Anigo says the club are hoping to bring in two new strikers this Christmas, with unsettled Liverpool ace Djibril Cissé the top target.
The Mediterranean outfit have had difficulty finding the back of the net this season, scoring just 19 times in 17 games. They currently sit a disappointing 10th in Ligue 1.
Anigo said: “Bringing in two new attackers would be perfect - with Cissé being one of them.
“But in order for that to happen there will need to be departures. That is a financial condition we have had imposed on us.”
Two of the club’s most recent signings could now be facing the axe.
Neither Peruvian forward Andres Mendoza nor Argentine Christian Gimenez have settled since their summer moves to the Stade Vélodrome, scoring just one goal between them.
Anigo is reluctant to blame the South Americans for the club’s goalscoring difficulties, but did not suggest that he would be fighting to hold onto them.
“It’s not necessarily the players’ fault,” he explained. “You also have to look at the initial situation and the fact that we had very little time to recruit the players.
“Don’t forget the example of the Didier Deschamps, who was signed by the ‘great’ Bernard Tapie and who did not stay very long.
“He moved to Bordeaux to become a better player.
"But I think that overall we have succeeded 80 percent of our recruitment if you consider (the successes like) Franck Ribéry, Mamadou Niang, Cesar, Lorik Cana and Wilson Oruma.”
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