It’s official – Barthez is now Marseille’s goalkeeper


MARSEILLE: French First Division side Marseille confirmed on Friday they have signed Manchester United’s French international goalkeeper Fabien Barthez on loan until June. 

Barthez, 32, had fallen out of favour at the English champions where he was third in the pecking order behind American Tim Howard and Northern Ireland’s Roy Carroll. 

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