Accustomed to heavy-handed media outings, Medhi Benatia has lived up to his reputation. Sports advisor to Olympique de Marseille, the former captain of the Atlas Lions looked back on his eventful career and denounced the problematic behavior of certain people within the Marseille team.
Benatia recently spoke about her complicated time with the Marseille club. Despite a strategic role that he has occupied for more than a year, his history with OM has not always been a smooth river, thus taking advantage of the opportunity to tackle certain people who would be at the origin of the problems. of the club.
“In this club, when you take one step forward, you take two steps back. It’s never easy. My role is sporting. I’m willing to argue with a coach, argue with a video analyst or a player, but I don’t want to work with unhealthy people, like there are in many football clubs. It happens everywhere, but here perhaps a little more than elsewhere”he said.
In this sense, the former defender of Juventus Turin would like to “clean up” the club, believing that there are too many personal interests which come before those of the Marseille team.
« Here, we must move in the direction of the interests of OM, not the interests of anyone. And there are too many personal interests in this club! I repeat, it’s not the only one, and I understand that. There are perhaps people who have credits over 20 years, who are at OM, who see transfers of €15 or €20 million, it can go to their heads. I understand, I don’t come from another planet, but I don’t accept working with people like that. I have the right“, he said.
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