Held in check by Nice last weekend, previously weighed down by three defeats in four days of the championship, OM finds itself in a very unfavorable position in the race for the Champions League – its ultimate avowed objective. Since the departure of Roberto De Zerbi, things have only gotten worse in Marseille, under the leadership of Habib Beye far from the mark: 10 matches managed for four victories and four defeats, a draw and an elimination on penalties in the Coupe de France).
If he benefits from an Olympian contract until June 2027, the former Senegalese international defender should not stay forever in the Marseille city. “ The OM coach has not managed to put his stamp on the game and has not had the expected results since his arrival in February. Under contract for another year, he is heading towards a departure at the end of the championship, in three matches », We can read in the pages of La Provence.
In this same regional daily, a former OM player still very attached to the club, Pascal Olmeta, anticipates the closure of the Habib Beye parenthesis and dares to submit the name of the ideal technician in his eyes to take up the torch. “ You have to take a French coach like Bruno Genesiosays the former doorman turned consultant. He has known several clubs and it has always worked well. He wants to manage a group 100% as well as all the side effects. Because Marseille is so special… »
“We haven’t been able to do it since 1995-96”
“ This season, we hired a coach who had just been fired elsewhere, while we could continue with Pancho (Jacques Abardonado, editor’s note) who is the friend of the playerscontinues Pascal Olmeta. When we talk about OM, we are talking about more than 60,000 people at each match, some come from very far away, even from abroad. The most beautiful stadium in Europe, the most beautiful audience… How can we not talk about the Champions League every year? How much longer will this last? »
And to conclude by adopting a radical stance? “ If we wrote a page in the club’s history with three championship titles (he was an Olympian from 1990 to 1993, editor’s note),
it’s also because the people next to us knew the club. You don’t arrive in Marseille wanting to change everything! And we don’t go to training in tap dancing! I have the impression that we haven’t been able to do that since 1995-96. When it works, it’s always at loggerheads. When things are no longer going well in the locker room or in the staff, we go and look for a foreign coach who arrives with ten assistants. Basta! If you have to sell the club, sell it! LVMH bought Paris FC, but I’m sure he would have been interested in OM. »
