The Olympique de Marseille coach announced his departure at the end of the season on Thursday. The choice of Igor Tudor is motivated by several reasons, including the stormy reception he received at the start of the season.
What is the curse that strikes Olympique de Marseille with its coaches? Like a Marcelo Bielsa capable of leaving after the first day of the championship, Jorge Sampaoli surprised everyone by leaving the club in full summer preparation last summer. A year later, it was done more cordially, and on time, but Igor Tudor still resigned to Pablo Longoria on the eve of the 38th day of Ligue 1. And yet, the season is not missed on the side of the Croatian coach, who sent the game and made the fans want to fill the Velodrome to the throat at each match. Despite the sporting disappointments in all competitions in the end, since second place was not there and the results were catastrophic in the cups, in Europe or in France, the former defender seemed set to continue a more season.
A terrible preparation, a stormy welcome
But he announced his departure last week to Pablo Longoria, and the long discussions from Sunday to Tuesday evening between the two men did not reverse the trend. Igor Tudor never adapted to Marseille, and La Provence gives the main reasons. From the start, things went very badly. According to the regional daily, he never digested the whistles against him on the first day, where he paid his style cash with the stars of the team in the pre-season camps and disappointing results in preparation. The supporters even hoped to have his skin from the start, in a trial of intent that he did not digest at all. Was his choice already made? It is not impossible since, despite his two-year contract, the Croatian has never brought his family to settle in Marseille.
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Very calm in a press conference, he never raised his voice to explain his departure, simply believing that it was a decision of his own. “ I made this decision for private and professional reasons. I have no agreement with another club. I’m not leaving because I had a fight with someone or because people didn’t like me, on the contrary. I wish the best to the club and all the people who work there “Launched Igor Tudor, who is also suspected of having wanted to weigh in on the OM transfer window for this summer, which was totally unthinkable in the eyes of Pablo Longoria. As a result, the Tudor episode only lasted a year, and Marseille fans will certainly be watching the rest of the Croat’s summer with a sharp eye, who does not necessarily want to take a sabbatical year, but instead plans to train again on the Italian side.
