DERNIÈRE TRISTE NOUVELLE : « JE SAIS MAINTENANT QUI SONT MES ENNEMIS », LIGNES DE COMBAT TIRÉES À MARSEILLE

Turning points can be difficult to pinpoint, but for Olympique de Marseille, the relationship between president Pablo Longoria and general manager Stéphane Tessier was definitively destroyed on March 31st, as Marseille entered the field to host Paris Saint-Germain.
The split was signaled not by the game or their old opponents’ defeat, but by a tifo above the South Winners displaying the image of a Redouane Bougheraba, a city comic with a solid rapport with the ultras.
To the South Winners, it was a sign of a Marseille-born success story celebrated in the city’s heartbeat, but the president took it with far less enthusiasm. According to L’Équipe, behind

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The hunt did not need to last long. Tessier had approved the tifo some months in advance. It is irrelevant whether Longoria’s reaction was political manoeuvring to portray his adversary as ‘cheapening’ Marseille’s image, or whether he genuinely didn’t know who had approved the image. In public, the president appeared to have no influence over what was going on inside his club, yet within Marseille, it was nothing short of a declaration of war.

According to L’Équipe, the mood in Marseille is one of two camps analyzing each other’s options before making their move. Since the catastrophic meeting with the supporters in September, which saw then-manager Marcelino depart the club and be followed by the.

Ezoic has only Marc Ortero, head of the training center, and Medhi Benatia, his strategic advisor, who was appointed in November. According to L’Équipe, this group distrusts Tessier, with Longoria apparently saying in private, “I now know who my enemies are at the club.” “I can’t work with him anymore.”

There has long been speculation that Longoria is ready to step down as president, and that Tessier, despite having a different connection with owner Frank McCourt, has positioned himself as the obvious successor. The general manager has even managed to build solid connections with the ultras, and he is reported to meet frequently with Rachid Zeroual, the South Winners’ spokesman and founder.