Surprising scene in an end-of-season meeting between Pablo Longoria and groups of supporters, where the president of OM was manhandled and asked to leave the club.
Pablo Longoria suddenly lost his immunity totem at Olympique de Marseille. The president of OM is often considered a man appreciated as he manages to combine his work as chief executive and chief recruiter with his passion for the club and financial management under the thumb of Frank McCourt. On top of that, if there is still no title and no ability to really compete with PSG over the whole of a season, the results are not bad, and OM are now settling in regularly. on the podium, which was not necessarily won the years before his arrival. Despite his passionate and calm side, Pablo Longoria was seriously shaken by the supporters during an end-of-season meeting, reveals La Provence this Friday.
The supporters want to fire Longoria from OM
Two days after the lackluster defeat in Ajaccio, even if it did not change the final classification, Pablo Longoria showed up for a meeting with representatives of the main supporter groups. According to the local newspaper, this meeting became stormy and the Spaniard was made ” heckle “while being reminded that it was time for him to do” his luggage » and to get rid of OM. Strong reactions that can be linked to the weariness of seeing the seasons go by without a title at the end and also to see PSG storing up trophies in France without necessarily shining. But the management of the club is also singled out. If there are much less waves at OM now, the changes of coaches sanction each season, and the workforce is renewed by half every summer. Difficult to follow for the supporters.
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Unless the sinews of war is the all too famous #VenteOM, and the representatives of the supporters’ groups imagine that Pablo Longoria and Frank McCourt can be pushed out by a stroke of pressure during a meeting. In any case, even if the Spanish president is not the type to let himself be dismantled, he was able to see up close that the Marseille supporters were not satisfied with the current situation. And it is not the recruitment of Marcelino which is being prepared which will calm the enthusiasm. The trainer is not really known in France, and seems mainly there to validate the strategy of his friend Pablo Longoria. Its reception is likely to be mixed, but everything will depend above all on the sporting results. It must be remembered that Igor Tudor had been received very coldly from his first match at the Vélodrome, with whistles and demands for his resignation. A behavior that had not escaped the Croatian technician, who had not wanted to bring his family back to Marseille in these conditions, and finally perhaps weighed in his decision not to continue at OM, a little general surprise.
