Roberto De Zerbi had very strong words after OM's heavy defeat at the Vélodrome against Auxerre (3-1) this Friday, November 8, at the opening of the 11th day of Ligue 1. The Italian technician said he was ready to leave if he was considered “the problem”.
It took him a while to arrive at the press conference, without being on the microphone of the broadcaster DAZN, undoubtedly to try to digest at least a little. But Roberto De Zerbi hit hard from his first answers. Less than two weeks after the slap in the Classic against PSG, OM conceded a heavy defeat at the Vélodrome against Auxerre (3-1), at the opening of the 11th day of Ligue 1. Which greatly irritated the technician Italian.
“I’m leaving without the money, the rest I don’t care”
“I have to take responsibility for this defeat at home. We have difficulties at home, that's clear. I don't know if it's a lack of courage or personality,” asks De Zerbi. “I came here to play at the Vélodrome because I wanted to live the experience. If the problem is me, I'm ready to leave. I'm leaving without the money, the rest I don't care. I I don't want to make excuses and talk nonsense, I'm not going to escape, we have to face reality. This is what I have to do.
Stunned and annoyed by both the content of the match and the performance of his players, the former Brighton coach did not mince his words during the entire press conference. “Playing at the Vélodrome is a privilege,” he recalls. “I have to transfer my passion for football to the players. At PSG, we played with ten men, it's true. But what I saw at 11 against 11 didn't please me. There are performances that don't are not good at home, we had good performances, in Toulouse, Montpellier, Nantes.
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With the desire to calm the heat around the race for second place in the championship: “We cannot talk about this second place. I must be able to give, to transmit something. I live for the things that transcend football. I repeat, if I'm the problem, I have to leave. Money is nothing to me. It's the rewards of the work that are important. I don't have any bad things to say about my players. . If I leave, I leave my heart, my soul.”
