The president of OM spoke in an interview with La Provence.
At the twilight of a day marked by the departure of his friend Marcelino, Pablo Longoria therefore chose to break the silence. The president of OM, who voluntarily withdrew from his functions in the heart of a violent and sudden crisis, did not avoid any subject. And the Spaniard pleads for transparency to put an end to any accusations against him.
“Last season, insinuations that I had stolen money with transfers reached the McCourt group. To protect myself, I had to ask the McCourt group to audit all our operations by an independent firm, to demonstrate that we were transparent. I gave away all my bank accounts, my phones, my emails, everything… It turned out we were clean! I gave it my all, even private conversations with my mother. »
“It’s not normal for a football manager to be threatened”
The president of OM thus recognized that the progress of this Monday’s meeting was the straw that broke the camel’s back. “ On Monday, I told myself that she was still much further away than I thought. It started with insinuations and progressed to threats. I can’t accept that, I can’t hear: “In Marseille it’s like that”. This is why we said on Tuesday: “In current conditions, it is impossible to work”. You understand me now, right? It’s not normal for a football manager to be threatened.”
