Arriving at Olympique de Marseille during the off-season but leaving after only a few matches, Marcelino broke his silence this Tuesday. The Spanish coach denounced the scandalous behavior of supporters who endangered the Marseille club and its project.
Short-lived OM coach at the start of the season and initially pushed by the behavior of certain supporters, Marcelino broke his silence in an interview to appear this Wednesday in the newspaper The Team. The Spanish technician shares his bitterness over the end of his Marseille adventure following a stormy meeting between club managers and supporters on September 19.
“(I felt) Very angry, disappointed and sad. We had put all our enthusiasm into developing a super attractive project, in a big club. In any case, we thought it was a big club in every sense of the word. term, Marcelino explained, but these deplorable events demonstrate that it is not as big a club as it would like to be. Some radical supporters who want to permanently influence events prevent it from being a big club. “
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“I have never seen this in my life”
A long-time friend of President Pablo Longoria, Marcelino hoped to experience a happy collaboration alongside him in Marseille. But the behavior of certain supporters and in particular the threats suffered by the club’s leaders pushed him to pack up.
“I spent twenty years as a coach, and almost twenty years as a professional player before, and I had never seen that in my life. And I don’t think I’ll see it again. At least I really hope so.” , thundered again the technician who passed through Valencia or Bilbao in La Liga. “It’s a way of proceeding which is very far from what the reality should be, in 2023, in a civilized country. Football is passion, okay, but there are limits.”
Marcelino advocates a strong OM in front of the supporters
Beyond his personal failure at OM and his forced departure, Marcelino regretted that a club like Olympique de Marseille could see its entire balance called into question by a few supporters. In his eyes, Marseille will not be able to evolve in the right direction as long as this happens.
“My very short experience makes me think that this is a club where creating a project is absolutely impossible. Because such a big club cannot be manipulated by a few. Serious clubs are led from the top, and each problem, each situation is managed and sanctioned if necessary,” continued the man who left OM after seven matches. “The supporters are supporters, they transmit passion and they are necessary. Experiencing home matches at the Vélodrome is magical, really, it’s different from anything I’ve experienced. So the supporters encourage, the managers work and, at the end of the season, we do the accounts.”
And Marcelino concluded with a move prepared by the supporters to harm the club: “But not after two months. This seems to mean that everything was orchestrated well in advance. The clubs must evolve, not regress. And OM, like As the results have shown for a while, it is a club which, instead of evolving, is regressing.”