The project was initially supposed to last three years… Roberto De Zerbi only lasted 18 months in Marseille. A year and a half of roller coasters, of strokes of brilliance certainly but also of rants and outbursts of blood. Sometimes with collateral victims and enormous damage for OM on arrival.
Last season thus began with a psychodrama. The clash in Rennes between Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe. An explanation “
of incredible violence » to use the words of President Longoria. With the consequence of the departure of the two players after many days of procrastination and more or less forced postures from the club management.
This episode undoubtedly weighed down OM during the last financial year. And Roberto De Zerbi, more decision-maker than he seems in this affair, did not really assume his role, protected then by his superiors. Particularly on the media scene. The previous year, it was the Canadian midfielder Ismaël Koné who had borne the brunt of the Italian strategist’s moods, sent to Rennes then to finally take on a much greater dimension on the side of Sassuolo.
“Something personal with the coach”
Amir Murillo also suffered these famous moods of the Transalpine volcano and still deplores them. Last season, the Panamanian full-back was unable to finish it in Marseille because of a dispute with his coach, who was hastily exfiltrated to Istanbul at the last moments of the winter transfer window. Which the Olympians did not fail to pay in the second part of the championship.
“ I think everyone saw that there was, let’s say, a problem with the coachthe person concerned whispered this Wednesday at a press conference, on the eve of his reunion with OM in the Europa League in the ranks of Besiktas. It had nothing to do with the team or the club. It was something personal with the coach. In a way, I felt like he had disrespected me. Then I was practically forced to leave the club… »
