After OM’s insufficient performance in Lyon on Sunday evening (1-0), a crisis meeting was held in Marseille this Monday, where Gennaro Gattuso notably asked his players if they still wanted him.
The atmosphere is tense again in Marseille. After the defeat on Sunday evening in Lyon (1-0), the fourth match without a victory for the Phocéens, a crisis meeting was held this Monday at the Commanderie. According to RMC, it was Pablo Longoria and Gennaro Gattuso who initiated this discussion with the players, also in the company of several managers and members of the staff.
Gattuso particularly pointed the finger at the behavior of his players, indicating that the problem was not, in his opinion, “neither tactics nor techniques“, which was a way of pointing out the failing mentality of his troops. “The season is not lost”, However, the Italian coach would have recalled, who wants to maintain his optimism.
Gattuso: “If I’m the problem…”
Gattuso, however, wonders if his players haven’t given up on him a little. “If I’m the problem, if you have any criticisms to make of the staff, tell us! », would have thus released the former Italian international, in substance, in words which recall those pronounced by Fabio Grosso in Lyon shortly before his ouster. For Gattuso, we are not there yet, since the players would have responded that there is no big problem with their coach.
Pablo Longoria also spoke, reminding the players of their responsibilities. “I was made to understand that Tudor was too hard last season, then that he didn’t work hard enough with Marcelino. We must no longer make excuses and react before it is too late and the season is ruined! », would have railed the Olympian president, again according to RMC. Longoria does not want to exclude himself from the questioning. “I’m ready to hear everything”he asked the players, awaiting possible reproaches.
