Former director general of operations of Olympique de Marseille, Stéphane Tessier was for a while one of the lungs of OM internally. Very rigid economically to allow the club to keep healthy finances, it has sometimes been led to refuse shock transfers. “In January 2023, we had the opportunity to sign Leandro Trossard in Marseille. The sports director had advanced enormously and we never found the economic model in which we would have been able to integrate it. It can also happen to make concessions ”tells Tessier in an interview with The team.
“If the DS says,” you need such players at all costs “, ok, but on the envelope devoted to the arrival of two defenders, there will be only one. It is arbitration. The CEO is based on economic elements. “ An ungrateful but essential role, at a time when club savings are increasingly fragile after the TV rights fiasco, which could plunge many French clubs in a nightmarish situation.
