The president of Olympique de Marseille has created a new structure in the organizational chart of the Provençal club.
Like the workforce of theOM since the arrival of Pablo Longoria as president in February 2021, the club’s organizational chart is experiencing instability. “ We formed a working group with Medhi Benatia (strategic advisor), Stéphane Teissier (general manager) and Gennaro Gattuso (coach), said the young Spanish manager on Thursday during a press conference, quoted by the club. We talk a lot. The fruits of these exchanges are very good. Medhi Benatia has a very interesting level of knowledge of the transfer window and the players. »
Pablo Longoria also associated two Italians with this new structure: Luigi Riccio, the main deputy of Gennaro Gattuso, and Roberto Malfitano. The latter has worked closely since 2016 with Javier Ribalta, the former director of football at OM, who left in September after the violent meeting which pitted the management against some of the leaders of the supporters’ associations. Malfitano, specifies The Teamhas been bombarded responsible for recruiting the professional team since the arrival of Medhi Benatia.
