Since its heavy defeat in the Classic (0-3) last month, Olympique de Marseille has lost its title ambitions in Ligue 1. For his part, Laurent Tapie never believed the squad composed by Pablo Longoria capable to compete with Paris Saint-Germain.
Olympique de Marseille suddenly came back down to earth. After a promising start to the season, Roberto De Zerbi's men did not hide their title ambitions in Ligue 1. At least until the slap inflicted by Paris Saint-Germain at the Vélodrome last October. Laurent Tapie, for his part, did not wait for this Classic to draw up a clear observation on the Marseille squad.
« I am more temperate than the supporters, I get inflamed less easilycompared the son of former president Bernard Tapie on BFM Marseille. It's very difficult to bear because love overflows the brain. It's stronger than you, you analyze with your heart, with your hope. You just need to win two or three matches to immediately imagine that we will be champions of France. We don't have the squad to be champions of France, I don't have dreams that I know are unattainable. There is still a real gap between OM and PSG and we saw it during the match. We lost 3-0, certainly with a red card, but even before the red card there was 75% possession for PSG… »
In his eyes, this rout does not tarnish the work of coach Roberto De Zerbi. “ I think the coach seems to be doing a good job, there's still a pretty good teamhe commented. We have to aim for second place, that would be good, we would make the Champions League. It's a shame that OM isn't there this season and it's even abnormal. Let's hope that OM returns to the Champions League and performs well there. Because going to the Champions League to be eliminated straight away, which has happened to us a lot of times, it's quite frustrating too. »
Laurent Tapie puts pressure on Longoria
The Marseille club would still have to show up with a squad to match. For the moment, Laurent Tapie is absolutely not convinced by the current group which he judges to be light years away from the team composed by his father. “ There is no comparisonhe estimated. There is not a single player on the current squad who would have been a starter in the team from the Tapie years. We had the best players in the world with AC Milan and a few teams. » In other words, Laurent Tapie will not stand up to applaud President Pablo Longoria. Especially not after last season.
« The questions we must ask ourselves are “what is OM’s budget?” and “what is OM’s ranking at the end of the season?”. The rest is bullshit. OM has the second largest budget in France, OM must finish second. If OM finishes first, that means Longoria is strong. But if OM does not finish second, it is because Longoria is not good because he would have done less well than what his budget gave him. Last season, not everyone was good, neither the players, nor the staff, nor anyone. When you finish ninth with the second budget, we can't say that you are good », Judged the son of the emblematic boss of OM.
