Olympique de Marseille announced the arrival of Roberto De Zerbi on Monday. The Italian coach is expected to arrive at the Commanderie with part of his staff on Wednesday!
As we have known since Monday, an agreement in principle has been reached between Marseille Olympic et Roberto De Zerbi. Everything therefore seems to be complete for Italian to be the new coach of the club. This Wednesday, as we are informed The team, he should land at Marseille.
The Italian coach will not be alone since he should come with Giovanni Rossi, future technical director of Olympique de Marseille as well as part of its staff. The purpose of this coming to Marseille which should only last 48 hours before resumption is precisely to set a date for returning to training.
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“There, I am amazed”
With the arrival of De Zerbi at OM, Longoria scores a big blow. Renowned coach since his time with Brighton, the Italian coach knew impress the football world with its offensive play which will recall the good times of Bielsa at OM. Ludovic Obraniak, former football player and now consultant for the Équipe channel, spoke about what the arrival of a coach of this caliber represented in loon.
“De Zerbi is a coach for whom I have a lot of d’admiration. That’s enough exceptional to find this type of coach, without TV rights and without a European Cupdeclares Ludovic Obraniak. This says a lot about the quality of attraction of OM despite everything. There remains perhaps the club by which we can still attract big namesexcept PSG because there is the financial aspect but there, I am flabbergasted. I was calling for him when he was on sabbatical before Brighton. I wondered why neither Lyon nor any big club had positioned themselves on him, which was quite crazy.
“I take my hat off to them”
“Besides, Brighton gets him back a little like here and there, seeing him arrive at OM after the quality of his work in England, which was still a very good first year. The second, we take away his four best players, which is not nothing. It’s just phénoménal. I don’t know what impact Longoria and Benatia have on this, but I take my hat off to them, bravo. » You will now have to wait until August 18, date of the first day of Ligue 1, to see De Zerbi in his works.
