Although everything is going well at OM, a major problem has been going on for several years now. The Marseille team is far from being the most famous and Medhi Benatia has also complained about the state of mind of the young players who are part of the training center. A real problem according to Pablo Longoria's sports advisor.
The last great player to emerge from the ranks of the training center loon East Samir Nasri. An outbreak that is now dated since it has been 20 years since loon no longer succeed in removing a young person from the training center who has had a huge European career. A problem addressed Medhi Benatia.
“They don’t let go as they should”
In an interview given to The Provence, Medhi Benatiathe sports advisor of loontakes stock of the Marseille training: “ I recently saw an article in La Provence on young people's playing time. But I keep telling myself to tell little Darryl (Bakola), Enzo (Sternal), Keyliane (Abdallah), Gaël (Lafont) and company that they think too much. They tell themselves too much that they won't have a chance, that it's complicated. In reality, there is too much respect. I see them in training, they don't let go like they should. Between a 17 year old kid and a Hojbjerg or a Rabiot, I have to see the difference between a kid and a top player. But in the desire, the enthusiasm of a young person must jump out at me. »
“It was inconceivable”
« We weren't like that. When Samir (Nasri) took the ball in training, he only had one idea in mind: how to eliminate Habib Beye or Abdoulaye Meité. When I was defending, I already had comments from players who asked me to take it more slowly. It was not conceivable, continues Benatia. And when you answered, you were sent back to the synthetic field. Twenty years later, you learn the lessons because football has changed our lives. In this 87 generation, with Samir, Hatem (Ben Arfa), Karim (Benzema), Jérémy (Menez), there would not have been many doctors or lawyers. But in character, we had an overflowing desire and, above all, we had no plan B. I never had one. It's too easy to tell yourself that if you fail, you have to give up. »
