Marcelino’s media outing this Wednesday, three weeks after his departure from Marseille, earned him a lot of criticism.
Three weeks after his departure from OM, which according to him should have been collective – leaders included – after the altercation with supporters at the Commanderie the day after the goalless draw between Marseille and Toulouse, Marcelino wanted to settle his scores in a interview given to L’Equipe. “ I spent twenty years as a coach, and almost twenty years as a professional player before that, and I had never seen this in my life. And I don’t think I’ll see him anymore. In any case, I really hope so. This is a way of proceeding which is very far from what the reality should be, in 2023, in a civilized country. Football is passion, okay, but there are limits », Judges the 62-year-old Spanish technician who also believes that “ OM is a club that is regressing “.
Fatefully, this interview did not go unanswered in Marseille, where Eric Di Meco in particular insisted on replying this Wednesday evening on RMC: “ For me, Marcelino, he is disqualified from talking about OMsays the former Olympians full-back. He left like a coward after two months even though he was never questioned. We need to explain why he is doing this interview. He is talking to possible clubs who would like to bring him back so he is trying to free himself from a fiasco. When you leave after two months, when you have not achieved your first objective which is to qualify the team for the Champions League, and when you play a game that is illegible for your players and even worse for the followers, you do not Don’t reason. »
“A small club coach”
In Marseille, Marcelino managed seven matches in all competitions, for a record of three wins, three draws and one setback. His team, certainly placed in L1 upon his departure, having failed to qualify for the C1 play-offs, exited prematurely by Panathinaikos. “ You can’t, having spent two months here and having failed, say what he says about the club », insists Eric Di Meco, before recognizing one thing in the criticism of the Iberian strategist. To tackle it better: “ OM is a historic club but it is no longer a big club today, we all agree. But we need him to know? Because if OM were a big club today, Marcelino would not have come to coach. He is a small club coach. »
