The defeat conceded on Saturday by Olympique de Marseille against FC Nantes (3-0, 32nd day of Ligue 1) was the occasion for numerous debates and discussions within the specialized media. The behavior of certain players, first and foremost Mason Greenwood, was dissected and deplored, particularly on the L’Équipe channel.
Columnist for the show L’Équipe du Soir, Régis Brouard was invited to give his opinion. And the one who also serves as coach of Rouen made a rant by widening the spectrum very widely.
“Actually the players are annoying us. No, but sometimes we go crazy. We can find reasons, we look for levers, coaches, clubs, leaders. There are a whole bunch of things that can be put in place around the players so that they are as good as possible, as well as supervised,…”
And the coach continues. “But at one point or another you wear a jersey and you have responsibility for the jersey. And your job, you are a professional footballer. The word ‘professional’, you have obligations to respect towards the institution, supporters, partners. In fact, you have homework. »
“It makes me crazy,” says Régis Brouard
Tired of seeing the way a good portion of the players behave, with regard to these famous duties, Régis Brouard did not stop there. “Once the tactic is not good, once it is ‘we haven’t worked too hard’once
‘we haven’t worked hard enough’once
‘we didn’t recover well’once ‘the video was too negative’. But you should know that when you are a coach, you often use the positive to put them in the best conditions. But at a given moment, the player’s responsibility exists. »
Trying to remain calm as much as possible, the observer concluded. “They don’t understand that. And it drives me crazy. It happens to get through a match, two matches. But there, the match in Nantes… We almost have to stop with Habib (Beye). » The latter refused to resign, ready to go to the end and try everything to finish the season well with his current squad at OM.
