The Marseille president spoke in an interview with L’Équipe. He mentions in particular a three-year plan.
Only fools don’t change their minds. And Pablo Longoria is not one of them. Admitting a “strategic error” during the 2023 off-season and ensuring that they are fans of “self-criticism”the president of OM regrets, in an interview given to the newspaper The Team to have taken a while “in the head too short-term goals compared to what is necessary to become a good leader of a football club. I learned that you have to have a lot more will to build something”he swears, believing that it was necessary “change the dynamic” from the Marseille locker room last summer.
Longoria therefore set up a three-year project, the main points of which he details as follows: “Sports results are the most important. At OM, you have to be in the Champions League every season. You have to get it into your head. In three years, we want to establish ourselves in the twenty-four best European clubs with the new format of the Champions League. This will give an economy around all that, the resources to maintain ourselves at this level”. Difficult to believe that OM could stick to one line for several seasons when the project seems to change every year? “There is a much stronger will from all the players, starting with the owner… Everyone is aligned. You want to build, you want it to last as long as possible, you insist on the same message, you hit like a hammer, every day, every day, every day. (…) If you provide continuity, it can have sporting and financial benefits”concludes the 38-year-old Spanish leader, who has been stationed in Marseille since February 2021.
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Eighth in the championship at the end of last season, and therefore deprived of the European Cup this season, Olympique de Marseille currently occupies third place in the Ligue 1 standings. Under the leadership of their new coach, Roberto De Zerbi, the Olympiens will make a short trip to Montpellier during the eighth day of L1, on October 20, before hosting the Parisian rival on October 27 for an anticipated Classic.
