2024-02-21 09:00:48
OM have just sacrificed their second coach of the season while results are non-existent in 2024. Pablo Longoria is more contested than ever but Frank McCourt also has a large share of responsibility according to Jérôme Rothen and the RMC board.
From candidate for the Champions League to training stuck in the soft underbelly of Ligue 1. OM is experiencing a nightmare season, symbolized by its instability. Instability in the management team, in the staff with four different coaches on the bench and especially at the player level. Pablo Longoria bought a lot and sold a lot this summer and winter. The Spaniard is seen as the main person responsible for this chaotic situation on a sporting level. However, Jérôme Rothen does not forget that the boss of OM remains Frank McCourt. The American, owner of the Marseille club, is never on the Canebière and hardly speaks publicly. This is becoming a major problem for OM according to the RMC consultant.
Frank McCourt accused of abandoning OM
« It drives me completely crazy when you see that OM is in this state. It belongs to Frank McCourt who put in a lot, a lot, a lot of money. And, you get the impression that he actually doesn’t care where his money goes and how he loses it. I don’t understand his strategy. Already, the first thing is to show his face a little more often so that the players imbue themselves with the identity of Frank McCourt, who is following all the owner and the one who pays them. In addition, it is the worst crisis, the worst season for OM in the last 5 years. I don’t understand his absence and his communication which is non-existent. He trusts Pablo Longoria who does anything great, who never questions himself. I would like Frank McCourt to hold Longoria accountable. […] I find that his communication is a total lack of respect towards French football and OM “, he said in Rothen ignites.
🗣️ @rothenjerome gets heated once morest Mc Court, too absent in times of crisis: “You have the impression that he doesn’t care how he loses his money. I would like him to make Pablo Longoria face his responsibilities .” #RMCLive pic.twitter.com/JFKIgFnkVZ
— Rothen s’enflamme (@Rothensenflamme) February 20, 2024
An observation approved and regretted by his friends Jean-Michel Larqué and Steve Savidan. The former Valenciennes and Caen striker is not surprised by Frank McCourt. For him, his silence corresponds to the way clubs are managed by foreign investment funds and you have to get used to it. “ We are witnessing an Americanization of French football. There is a sort of delegation of power from shareholders who no longer want to exist in clubs and let a president decide. They run a club like a business and if it goes under so be it “, he indicated. McCourt will still have to react because in Marseille more than elsewhere the public cannot bear to let OM go down without doing anything.
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