“Since the start of the season, the situation has been sufficiently complicated and complex. We’ve had to do a lot of DIY so far. So it will take time. Will we have any? I don’t know. But we can’t ask players, overnight, things they weren’t used to doing. (…) OM is a team that must win matches and be at the top of the table, but for that we perhaps need to explain things more clearly if we want to have time. »
This was Bruno Genesio’s words on Friday evening at a press conference, just after the defeat conceded by Marseille at Stade Rennais (1-0, 4th day of Ligue 1). With a crestfallen face and head down, the Marseille coach almost seemed resigned in his words. Enough to make some observers of the championship react.
Present on the set of the L’Équipe channel, Hugo Guillemet wanted to question the former OL coach. “Bruno Genesio, I have two words to say to you. With all the respect I have for you, because I know that on a human level, you have left an impression on the people of all the clubs you have been to. But here, in Marseille, I can no longer hear this little music ‘we make do with what we have, it’s too difficult’. No. OM still have the second largest payroll in the championship behind PSG. »
Bruno Genesio, requested change
And the journalist continues his speech. “A lot of players have left and the squad is unbalanced, of course, but I think there was better to do than three defeats in a row at the start of the season. We see the same composition, the same tactical system, the same instructions and the same words which are repeated day after day. We have a team which cannot score, which finds itself completely disjointed and pierced in midfield (…). Stop playing with a number 10, Angel Gomes, who brings nothing. Play with a number 6 which could be (Pierre-Emile) Hojbjerg and who would protect the defense (…). »
Very provisional eleventh in the ranking after this third setback in four days, Marseille is now preparing to host Paris Saint-Germain at the Vélodrome on September 20, three days after a Europa League match in Turkey against Besiktas (September 17).
