“A new ambitious chapter”
“I can’t wait to sit on the bench of the Orange Vélodrome, this time as coach of OM, and help the club regain the rank that Marseille deserves,” he said. -he adds.
For the American owner of OM, Frank McCourt, “his arrival marks the beginning of an ambitious new chapter and constitutes an essential element of our strategy for the future successes” of the club.
De Zerbi is “a talented and renowned coach at European level”, praised President Pablo Longoria for whom this arrival marks the start of a “new sporting cycle”.
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Despite a season ending in a sad eighth place and marked by multiple changes of coaches, Pablo Longoria and his team pulled off a nice coup by attracting this very popular coach on the market.
The atmosphere at the Vélodrome had left its mark on him
At the end of last season, OM said thank you to Jean-Louis Gasset, who came to save the furniture at the end of an exercise during which everything went wrong, and began looking for a new coach , who would agree to manage a private European Cup club for the first time since the 2019/20 season.
The Brescia native, who notably played for Sassuolo and Shakhtar Donetsk, imagined himself more at Bayern Munich, Liverpool or Manchester United.
But the best European benches found buyers and the OM option remained alive, also thanks to Brighton’s visit to Marseille last fall for a Europa League match. De Zerbi loved the atmosphere at the Vélodrome. The arrival of a coach of this caliber is also a plus for the transfer window and certain Marseille players who were thinking of leaving might think twice.
