Main victim of the passage of Igor Tudor on the bench of Olympique de Marseille, we could have bet that Dimitri Payet (nine tenures in L1) would come out of the woods to tell his truths after the departure of the Croatian. And it did not fail. The Marseille attacking midfielder gave an interview to France Soccer in which he explains that he had trouble with the authority of the now ex-OM coach.
“During the first sessions and, in particular, during the internship in England at the end of July, we suddenly discovered someone rough and brutal, says Payet. In his way of being, in his words. He was authoritarian. It was obviously completely different from Jorge Sampaoli. We were a little shocked. ” Just that.
“He had his ideas”
The Marseillais did not stop there. “He was very hard, even exaggeratedly hard, at the start to mark his territory, his arrival, to put things in place. And then it got a little better. Not cool, no, but better, a little more flexible. »
Dimitri Payet also addressed his lack of playing time, again struggling to hide his bitterness. “I’ve respected his choices all season. Still, he could have used me a little more. In any case, on certain matches a little closed. He had his ideas, I didn’t enter into his plans but sometimes I would have liked him to trust me a little more. »