Montpellier is thinking of Jean-Louis Gasset to replace Michel Der Zakarian

One defeat too many. Author of a nightmarish start to the season on the bench of Montpellier HSC, Michel Der Zakarian was finally dismissed on Sunday evening, after another slap in the face received during the 8th day of Ligue 1. Swept out by OM (0-5) , the 61-year-old technician did not appear at the microphone of DAZN. And for good reason. It was its president, Laurent Nicollin, who came to announce the news while the Hérault club is, today, in last place in the ranking with eight small goals scored and 26 conceded…

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“How am I doing? Not good, but for me, who cares whether I’m doing well or not, the club has to be doing well. We would have to do a lot of things to make things better, but in football, you can’t change 25 players, so I took the initiative to stop Michel this evening. I saw him, we talked, we talked in the locker room at the end of the match and I told him that it was over for him tonight. I went to see the players to tell them that because of their hard work, they had blown up a coach and that we will have to take their responsibilities on Sunday against Toulouse.launched the Montpellier leader.

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Gasset called to the rescue?

Plunged into a deep crisis, the upper echelons of the club will now have to work hard to find a profile capable of relaunching the machine and thus preventing the MHSC from being relegated to the second division. And according to the latest information from The Teamthe research work is already well underway. Indeed, according to the revelations of the French daily, Montpellier is today thinking of calling on a certain Jean-Louis Gasset.

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A few months after the end of his interim period with OM, could the latter be convinced by a return to business? Difficult to say at the moment but the MHSC intends to put all the chances on its side to convince the 70-year-old tactician to come out of retirement. Indeed, if Jean-Louis Gasset – former player (1975-1985) and coach (1998-1999, 2017) of the MHSC – is hoped for on the Hérault bench, Montpellier could also offer him a position in the management organization chart, like Frédéric Antonetti from Bastia. To be continued…