Roberto de Zerbi could well savor on Saturday after the great victory won by Olympique de Marseille on the lawn of Le Havre (1-3). Thanks to this success, OM is indeed mathematically qualified for the next Champions League and still has second place in Ligue 1, with one point ahead of Monaco.
The Italian technician also took the opportunity to settle his accounts with journalists who recently claimed that the Marseille players had dropped their coach, which had forced him to organize this long green in Rome.
“We saw that it was a family in the field. Look at Rabiot, Hojberg, Greenwood… We won. Here, that's why I made this decision (the internship in Rome, Editor's note). It is not true that the players were against me. It hurt me. There has never been a mutiny, there has never been a problem ”,
he entrusted to the Dazn microphone.
However, the season will have been trying for the former coach of Brighton. And for Daniel Riolo, Roberto de Zerbi has every interest in taking a long vacation to leave the Marseille environment.
“Admittedly, this is his first experience in a overexposed club, but it will quickly have to get used to that otherwise he will be in burnout. There, the way he communicates on this end of the season, I want to tell him “will take a vacation, go rest”, because it will move next season,
he thus entrusted to the microphone of RMC. With two games a week, the criticisms that will fall when it won't go well, you will have to prepare, because there if you are in a boiling state when you are second … “
“OM has decided to give a slightly dramatic turn to this end of the season, with a kind of complaint. I find it a little regrettable, he continued. As much, I find the miracle side, I do not like the term too much, because it is exaggerated, on the other hand when De Zerbi says that over the last 10 years, OM is not at all a client of the Champions League, there, on this, we must prove him right. OM is no longer a Champions League club. Because of the economic situation of our football, you must be in the Champions League to live. OM must do everything, because they cannot be champion – PSG will still monopolize the place for a long time – to be always 2nd or 3rd to collect money from the Champions League and build and make the club grow. It is this pressure that they are going to have on their shoulders now. »»
