Recruited for 32 million euros last January, Vitinha did not meet expectations for his debut at Olympique de Marseille. The Portuguese striker is not spared criticism and mockery, including internally.
Planted by Marcelo Gallardo, Pablo Longoria immediately started looking for a new coach. The president of Olympique de Marseille has made Lille’s Paulo Fonseca his new priority, without ruling out the track leading to Marcelino. One thing is certain, it is that the successor of Igor Tudor will have to stick to the profile defined by the boss, and described by Grégory Schneider.
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” You don’t take care of transfersexplained the columnist of Europe 1. Anyway, you’re here for a short time, so you can shake the guys up, you can bully them since you’ll be gone after eight or ten months. You can burn your ships pretty fast, that’s the profile. Another parameter to take into account, the desire to maintain a vertical game. “ Overall, it takes better players to play possession football than to play a transition game “commented the journalist.
” They felt they had to downsize because it was McCourt’s orders, they had the biggest payroll of their lives. So Tudor was going with this impoverishment of the playerscontinued Grégory Schneider. It’s more athletic, it sends, it was a bit of the project. So Longoria does his shopping, you start from the players, you wonder which coach could corner them. And it lasts a year and you change everything, you date 14 guys, you bring in 13. “Except that the plan failed with the recruitment of striker Vitinha, mocked within the Marseille club.
Players mock Vitinha
” It didn’t pass, because if they didn’t finish second, it’s because they missed their winter transfer windownoted the specialist. They planted themselves on Vitinha. At some point, you will have to stop the joke. Interested in what his teammates think about it, those who train with him. You would have surprises… It’s funny. Ask a guy like Veretout, you can ask Payet. They also crashed on Malinovskyi, and if you don’t crash on these two players, maybe you are ahead of Lens. Tudor says that if Vitinha gives him the seven-eight goals over the half-season, it’s not the same thing. The casting error cost dearly.
