The former OM coach no longer recognizes the team he coached between 2021 and 2022.
Jorge Sampaoli only stayed a year and a half on the OM bench. Only 18 months, but 18 very intense months. The highly respected Argentine coach remains extremely attached to the Marseille team. But a little less to the club leaders.
Sampaoli greets his Marseille soldiers
In an interview with Sevilla FC Twitch, the former Albiceleste coach admitted to having had a lot of fun in Marseille: “The team was very good in a very physical championship,” he confided. We would have won the championship if it hadn’t been for PSG who were competing in another championship. I felt happy that I was able to convey a different idea in a separate championship with a way of feeling my love for the ball and not just running. A football that identifies me “.
He also paid tribute to his main executives within this training: “ I was surprised by many players like Payet, Guendouzi, Gerson, Kamara, Saliba… I really enjoyed leading this team. Really “.
OM has changed a lot in 18 months
Five players were also by the Argentinian and none of them play at the club today. If this is not a dig addressed to its president at the time Pablo Longoria then it strongly resembles one.
With Marcelino and especially Tudor, the Spanish leader transformed OM from a playful and creative team to one that was more physical and less enterprising. For rather mixed results.
Even if he won nothing in Marseille with his shimmering footballer, Sampaoli can boast of having ensured OM their best league ranking in 13 years (2etied with the OM of Baup and that of Villas-Boas).
