From Zerbi to OM, too good to be true?

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By: Manu Tournoux

Coach Roberto de Zerbi would have chosen the management of OM despite the absence of a European Cup in Marseille and courtiers with visibly more attractive assets.

It’s a little hard to believe it.
Roberto de Zerbi on the benchOM
sounds like a real surprise. Since May 18, the date of the announcement of the amicable separation between Brighton and the 45-year-old Italian coach, rumors sent him to a much more upscale club than the one which finished 11th in the Premier League last month. last.

We then believed that an English big name, like Manchester United, or a big European machine (Bayern Munich?) would be the next destination that Roberto de Zerbi would take. Well no, if we follow the information reported this week by French media.

Everything about the coach’s salary, not that of the players

De Zerbi would have let himself be seduced by the warm atmosphere of the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille to the point of saying yes to the project presented by OM and its president Pablo Longoria. The Olympian management, specifies The Teamwent all out to offer a generous salary to the potential successor of Jean-Louis Gasset.

Forced to reduce its payroll by 30%, this is what was indicated on Wednesday to the National Directorate of Management Control, OM will not be able to fully satisfy, one imagines, Roberto de Zerbi, finances in the red obliged. We can then be surprised, like the fact of seeing a coach not studying avenues allowing him to lead a team in the European Cup, C3 at least.

The former coach of Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) should sign with OM, deprived of European competition next season, for three seasons and a salary of around 6 million euros per year.

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