Olympique de Marseille is going through a new zone of turbulence. Beaten in Lorient (0-2), the Phocéens were then held by OGC Nice (1-1), stringing together two disappointing results which further weaken their dynamic at the end of the season.
Beyond the field, the tension also seems to reach the locker room, where an intervention deemed muscular by Habib Beye with certain substitutes, including Himad Abdelli, would have provoked a strong reaction from the player. A tense episode which would have required the intervention of several executives to calm the situation, according to
Football Mercato.
Faced with the rumors, the Marseille technician was keen to deny any climate of divide at a press conference, two days before the trip to Nantes. “About the locker room, I hear a lot of things. Some lack journalistic ethics. It comes back to me and when I see certain things, it’s sad. Either you have the information, or you invent it and you divide the locker room between the players and the coach. When I see what is built around me, I am not surprised. I am very good with my players. I talk with them every day and it’s up to us to show it on Saturday on the pitch”assures Beye, very upset.
“I feel like it’s always linked to my presence”
According to him, despite a turbulent season, the group remains united and fully mobilized to approach the final meetings with ambition, with the aim of seeking qualification for the Champions League, the objective set at the start of the year. “I saw what the team was able to give against Nice. I don’t have that impression. But what people want to construct or interpret… I let them interpret », he says.
“Pressure and tension exist in a locker room, from the first day to the last. There is always relief in a locker room. But that doesn’t mean it explodes. This is not the case. What bothers me is that it’s always the same music that comes back and we invent the same stories. I feel like it’s always linked to my presence. What bothers me are the lies”insists the technician to journalists.
