In bad shape at the end of the season, OM could make a radical decision this summer.
OM will undoubtedly be in the middle of construction again this summer, forced to rebuild its professional workforce and its organization chart. Depending on the conclusion of this season, the technical staff could also be impacted. Failing to have fulfilled the objective set by the sports management – namely the podium in Ligue 1 – Habib Beye could pack his bags prematurely. For which successor?
Among the names already circulating near the Vélodrome and the Commanderie, the well-known one of Christophe Galtier. Former defender of the club, moved to the bench in 1999-2000 as assistant to Bernard Casoni, he certainly coached the PSG of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé. Without denying its origins, judges the last cited.
“ As long as he is professional and he helps OM win… He coached PSG, but he coached OM before toounderlines Bernard Casoni in an exclusive interview with French Football Weekly. He is a professional who can work in any club. You shouldn’t mix everything up. (…) The work leads you to coach other clubs, but that doesn’t stop him from having Marseille fiber too! »
“He knows the mined lands,” says Casoni about Galtier
Could Christophe Galtier get OM out of its current quagmire? “ He was a good assistant, but who made enormous progress, and who has coached very big clubs since then, remembers the former French international defender. At the time, we were already in a minefield in Marseille, so he knows minefields… »
And Bernard Casoni added about the current coach of Neom SC, in Saudi Arabia: “ When you can coach PSG, you can also coach OM. » An option that he considers realistic and even calls for: “ I would be very happy, confirms the 1993 European champion. If he has the opportunity to coach Olympique de Marseille, he has to go! »
