At OM, a new Mistral is blowing over the Marseille city and the Robert Louis-Dreyfus center. Medhi Benatia came to support Pablo Longoria in November 2023 before Fabrizio Ravenelli did the same last offseason. A shock trio that makes many people pale according to Daniel Riolo, including PSG. Explanations.
The PSG has built its new sporting project at the end of the 2021/2022 season. With the departure of Leonardo from sports management, Nasser Al–Khelaïfi decided to give the truck keys to Luis Campos who then became the football advisor of Paris Saint-Germain. The goal was to establish a new sports policy through which the development of young talents would replace the overpopulation of stars in the locker room.
“The image smacked me in the face”
The revival ofABOUT took place during this year 2024. At the end of last year, Medhi Benatia was appointed sports advisor to the Marseille club and Fabrizio Ravenelli inherited the position of institutional advisor to theMarseille Olympic. With Pablo Longoriaall three of them went through the Juventusa school of discipline. Daniel Riolo admits to having been amazed at the start of the season.
“I don’t remember which match it was, but I saw all three of them side by side in the stands, the image slammed in my face. All three worked at Juve, an important club in my family. Pablo Longoria was struck by his years spent in Turin (2015-2018) and I know how much he enjoyed working there. Ravanelli, as a player in the 90s (1992-1996), I don’t even talk about it, and Medhi Benatia (2016-2019) says it himself: he was marked by the way everything is organized, as is also the case at Bayern Munich, where he also played (2014-2016). These clubs are institutions.”
“The image is strong, it is not the one that Nasser al-Khelaïfi and Luis Campos give off at PSG”
Pour Provence, the editorialist of RMC has also made an unflattering parallel for the PSG.
“And when I saw them gathered like that, I said to myself: ‘They found each other well.’ Perhaps at one point Pablo (Longoria) was a little too alone in this club to present a strong institution, because he was in conflict with other leaders… In any case now, it has the looks like it’s going straight! Maybe it won’t hold, it won’t work, but in any case the desire to unite the club’s strengths is there. And I repeat, the image is strong, it is not the one that Nasser al-Khelaïfi and Luis Campos give off at PSG, for example”. Nasser Al–Khelaïfi will appreciate…
