With the very probable arrival of Medhi Benatia in the organization chart, OM will present an extremely young president-sports director duo.
Medhi Benatia arrives at OM. THE conditions are met, affirms Provence, for the former central defender of Morocco (58 caps – 2 goals) to join Pablo Longoria’s staff.
With Benatia, retired for exactly two years (November 18, 2021), the president of the Marseille club should compensate for the recent departure of Javier Ribalta, director of football, following the violent meeting of September 18.
The regional media specifies that Medhi Benatia would work as a service provider, therefore not an employee, like Luis Campos at PSG. Having passed through OM between 2003 and 2007 (from 16 to 20 years old), Benatia would return to a familiar environment.
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The former player of AS Roma, Juventus and Bayern Munich sold the shares he held in Klan Soccer, a football consultancy company based in Dubai where he lives with his family. As a result, Azzedine Ounahi, the other Moroccan midfielder of OM (with Amine Harit), is no longer contractually linked with Mehdi Benatia, further specifies Provence.
Longoria, 37, and Benatia, 36, barely older than the club’s center forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (34), rarely, if not never, the president-sports director duo of OM is not was also young in a French elite club.
