Disappointing since the start of the season, OM clearly do not have the players to play in the desired system. Gennaro Gattuso wants to be lucid on the subject.
It’s not quite an admission of helplessness but it looks like it… This Friday in front of the press, Gennaro Gattuso pointed out the evil that inhabits his team and which prevents it from being more effective offensively: the players used against employment. “ The truth is that Correa, for example, in his career, has always generally played behind the point, behind the center forward. Iliman (Ndiaye, editor’s note) played more as a second striker, not as much out wide. The only one who was really in this pure winger game was Sarr. Same Amine (Harit, editor’s note), I have spoken about it several times, I think he is a player who should be more in the center. These are players who are all playing while learning new things in a position that is not necessarily the one they have played throughout their career. This is something that is perhaps difficult to assimilate. (…) These are players who in the corridors did not necessarily have this experience. »
This observation thus drawn up, the OM coach does not hide the expectation of reinforcement this winter. Especially since there are many Olympians called to compete in the African Cup of Nations: Mbemba, Harit, Ounahi, Sarr, Ndiaye and even Gueye, who will return from suspension in mid-December. “ I think this is a fairly simple question. During the African Cup, we risk losing five or six playersnotes Gennaro Gattuso. So the squad will be reduced to 18 or 19 players. I think that math is something quite objective. Obviously we will miss players. So obviously there will be a need to strengthen the squad. »
“I don’t give a name”
If OM could recover their Brazilian winger Luis Henrique this winter, who is coming to the end of his loan at Botafogo, Gennaro Gattuso is therefore pleading for the recruitment of one or even two real wingers. A job which now falls to the new sports advisor, freshly arrived in Marseille, Mehdi Benatia. “ I don’t give names, I want players who are functional and who fit my vision of the game, I’m talking about player characteristics. Afterwards, it is people who are better placed than me who take care of that and who will see what profit this corresponds to, and also how much the players cost… But it is certain that we have a limited workforce and that there definitely needs to be strengthened. »
