De Zerbi's offensive sentence for a recruit in training

By securing the arrival of Roberto De Zerbi last summer to replace Jean-Louis Gasset, Pablo Longoria and Medhi Benatia struck a major blow for an OM then deprived of the European Cup and in full doubt. Here is now De Zerbi, therefore, inducted at the head of the Marseille club for a three-year project on paper, supposed to bring a clear playing identity and bring the Olympian club back to the top.

Brassier reframed by De Zerbi

De Zerbi, a technician who is particularly demanding with his players, who discovered him even before the official meeting by receiving, as the Team tells us, a personalized video montage to point out their shortcomings and areas for improvement. A certain Lilian Brassier discovers this requirement on a daily basis. However, De Zerbi had warned him that he saw great potential in him. “Listen to me, and you will become an international, you are only at 30% of your capabilities,” the Italian coach reportedly explained to him.

Except that since the start of the season, Brassier has not been able to reach the expected milestone and De Zerbi is getting impatient. To the point of tackling him head-on on the sidelines of training. “De Zerbi took him to task by designating a young man who had come to strengthen the group in the absence of the internationals: ''Do you see him? He has been with us for three days and he understands my instructions better than you who have been with me for three months!'', says a person close to the locker room. Lilian Brassier would not have appreciated it at all…

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