At the heart of criticism since the start of the season, Pablo Longoria could live out his last months as president of Olympique de Marseille.
Storm warning for Marseille. The day after OM’s defeat in Lyon (1-0), Sunday evening at the end of the 20th day of Ligue 1, Pablo Longoria organized a crisis meeting with the players and Gennaro Gattuso. The president raised his voice, particularly pointing the finger at the state of mind of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and his partners.
Target of criticism after his failed summer transfer window and the casting error with Marcelino, Pablo Longoria is the subject of a long file from the newspaper The Team this Tuesday morning. The sports daily wonders about the future of the Spanish leader and provides some elements which suggest that the Olympian president could leave the Marseille city at the end of the season.
Longoria’s replacement ready?
Still according to the same source, Pablo Longoria would have confided “desires from elsewhere” has “some of his relatives”. Increasingly isolated in the upper echelons of Marseille, after the departures of his right-hand man Javier Ribalta and more recently of Pedro Iriondo, the director of strategy and development, the native of Oviedo would say he is tired. However, he remains present and combative.
Furthermore, Stéphane Tessier, current general director of OM, is increasingly managing day-to-day affairs, and has surrounded himself with trusted people, at the training center, in communication, in marketing or in recruitment… This which suggests that he could become Longoria’s successor at the head of the Stade Vélodrome residents. In any case, this is Daniel Riolo’s opinion. “I think that for the 1000th time OM is in transition. That Tessier will become president at the end of the season and that Longoria will leave. We will have to leave again”, indicated the editorialist on the airwaves of RMC. One thing is certain, the next few months promise to be hectic on the Canebière.
