Mercato – OM: “There is no project”, De Zerbi gets tackled

After their victory in the Gambardella Cup, several young OM players now have the opportunity to train regularly with the professional group. Barred by competition, they do not, however, have many opportunities to play, which causes annoyance among those around them, who believe that there is “no project with Roberto De Zerbi for young people . »

Despite the pool of players present in Marseille, theABOUT has historically always struggled to bring out young players from its training center. A “ golden generation » nevertheless points to the tip of his nose, dixit Medhi Benatia after the qualification of the Minots for the final of the Gambardella cut last season, which they won. Like Keyliane Abdallah (18 ans), Darryl Bakola (16 ans), Alex Koum (18 ans), Gaël Lafont (18 ans) Yanis Sellami (17 years old) and Enzo Sternal (17 years old), several of them train regularly with the professional group.

Young people would like to be loaned

But as indicated by Provencetheir playing time is a problem. They do not have the opportunity to show themselves as professionals and generally evolve with the reserve, or even in U19. Some of them would like to go on loan in order to play more, whichABOUT refuses for the moment, believing that training under the orders of Roberto DeZerbi is part of their training process, which is not the opinion of those around them.

“There is no project with Roberto De Zerbi for young people”

« There is no strategy to promote young people. But to be able to lend them, you have to expose them in L1. There, certain elements of the reserve will progress more than the six players who are part of the Pro 1 group because they train and play together while the others are, in the end, neither with the pros nor with the reserve. Frankly, there is no project with Roberto De Zerbi for young people “, confided an agent of a young talent from theABOUT has Provence. « It’s not by doing a toro with the pros that they will improve… »