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"We no longer recognize you as leaders", the press conference murders OM supporters

2021-02-19T17:34:14.698Z


In a press conference organized on Friday, groups of OM supporters expressed their dissatisfaction with the club management. They demand in particular the departure of Frank McCourt and Jacques-Henri Eyraud.


"We no longer recognize you as leaders of the Olympique de Marseille".

This strong sentence, pronounced by Christian Cataldo, representative of the Dodgers supporters group, is probably the one that best sums up the press conference jointly organized by the OM supporters groups this Friday.

At the Pharo, in the heart of Marseille, the Mistral blowing into the microphones of Christian Cataldo and Rachid Zeroual, representing the South Winners, the only two to speak during this media speech, all the Marseille supporters sent a strong message. .

It is first in a speech that Christian Cataldo describes how they are fed up with the current leadership, and underlines all its failures.

“Last season's 'COVID podium' will not be the tree that hides the forest.

The resulting Champions League qualification turned out to be a disaster, with a sad record of defeats and intolerable behavior and mediocrity on the pitch "protested Cataldo before continuing:" most of the team The workforce is to be renewed, at the end of the contract, not extended, or loaned.

The project will therefore soon reach five years and now we can expect a 'year zero' next year ”.

McCourt, a phantom president

Jacques-Henri Eyraud, the deputy president of OM, is criticized in particular for his vision and innovations far removed from what Olympian supporters expected.

His communication, his media errors, and his very start-up conception of the management of OM (in particular his anglicisms) are reprimanded.

A list of nine points, preceded by the sentence "JHE (initials of Jacques-Henri Eyraud, editor's note), of your chaotic communication Marseille is weary", is listed.

It is moreover rather the French businessman who crystallizes the criticisms made by the Marseillais in this monologue, punctuated by a "leave the club!"

" unequivocal.

It will be necessary to wait for the questions and answers part of this press conference and the speech of Rachid Zeroual so that Frank McCourt, the American owner of the club, takes for his rank.

“We don't want a phantom president.

Let him get out of his castle.

We want a real boss like Bernard Tapie, people who feel concerned.

I'm going to displease a lot of people but Aulas is a real boss.

Love him or not.

He is present at all levels of his club.

We are in a ghost club, like our shareholder, ”notably asserts the representative of the South Winners.

That Marseillais erect Jean-Michel Aulas, president of OL and often the object of mockery in the stands of the Vélodrome, as a model proves the despair in which the Marseilles supporters bathe.

There is only the Good Mother who is eternal in Marseille, Payet no

Rachid Zeroual

Zeroual also warns the American owner about his future choices at the head of management: “If he wants to keep Eyraud, he will find himself facing confrontations.

We will call for a demonstration, deposited at the prefecture, we will descend on the Canebière.

We will ask all Marseillais to come down ”.

In recent times, McCourt's communications agency has often claimed that the relationship between the Deputy Chairman and his owner is very good.

La Canebière soon invaded?

The players themselves have rarely been challenged by Zeroual and Cataldo.

“We saw the team and told them what we expected of them.

If we are Europeans so much the better.

We will always be behind our team.

But the subject is not the team, it's the management ”commented the latter.

All?

No !

One player, especially with the South Winner, was particularly scratched during this press conference: Dimitri Payet.

“Payet is no longer a player, he is a guy for me.

There is only the Good Mother who is eternal in Marseille, Payet no.

He too must go home.

He negotiated a contract behind the backs of his teammates, ”explains Rachid Zeroual.

On the eve of the reception of Nantes, another team in the championship plagued by problems between the management and the supporters, there is no doubt that this public speaking will make the locker room talk and perhaps push Frank McCourt to reflect on his future and that of Eyraud at the club.

In any case, this is what the supporters of OM are hoping for.

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Source: lefigaro

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