Ligue 1: Gennaro Gattuso and OM separate, Gasset's name mentioned

| February 19, 2024 | Sport | No Comments

Ligue 1: Gennaro Gattuso and OM separate, Gasset's name mentioned

Jean-Louis a été limogé de la Côte d'Ivoire lors de la dernière CAN, après son échec retentissant en poules. MAXPPP – LEGNAN KOULA

Arriving last September, Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso will already leave Olympique de Marseille. The former technician from Ivory Coast, PSG and Montpellier, could arrive at the Old Port.

The Italian technician (46 years old) arrived at the head of OM at the end of September 2023 to replace the Spaniard Marcelino, who left after five matches and in the aftermath of the famous stormy meeting between club management and representatives of supporter groups.

But despite the encouraging first weeks, when he judged to have "a locker room of 'puta madre'", Gattuso was unable to turn around the situation of a team that didn' has won no league matches in 2024 and is in ninth place in the standings, far from qualifying for a European Cup.

No league success in 2024

Apart from its narrow success in the Coupe de France against Thionville (1-0), a 5th level team, Marseille has not won since December 17 and the reception of Clermont.

According to a source close to the negotiations, the separation between the two parties should take place in the form of an amicable breakup and not an amicable one. a layoff.

It was recorded following a meeting between Gattuso and his leaders Monday morning, the day after a sad defeat in Brest (1-0), the Italian having recognized "no longer having solutions" to relaunch OM, according to this same source.

Last week already, after a draw conceded in the final seconds against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League, Gattuso expressed his helplessness in the face of his men's inability to hold on to a result.

"You say to yourself, 'how to win ?'. But all season we've had this kind of problem, it's been like that since I arrived. How we solve them, I don't know, I'm having trouble, the Italian had admitted.

Jean-Louis Gasset as interim ?

Even if his management assured him of maintaining their confidence, the signal sent by the 2006 world champion was negative, that of a man short of solutions.

Sunday after the match lost in Brest, he still felt that his team had "hit rock bottom" and he said he was "disappointed in himself".

In these conditions, its situation was untenable and the club's management chose to act quickly as a fundamental week begins for OM with receptions Shakhtar on Thursday and Montpellier on Sunday.

According to the source consulted by OM, Gattuso's successor should be a "man of blows, capable of getting into the heads of his players and rather a Francophile" and the name of Jean-Louis Gasset "stands out", perhaps for an interim role until the end of the season.

Aged 70, the former assistant to Laurent Blanc in the French team and at Paris SG, has just left the Ivory Coast selection during the Coupe d&# 39;Africa of Nations.

The man who will take his place on Thursday on the Marseille bench will in any case have the mission of saving what can still be saved, that is to say to try to secure a European place at the end of the season, the Top 4 and the Champions League now being very far away, eight lengths ahead.

This new jolt also serves as a reminder of the extent to which OM is incapable of building continuity.

Since the arrival of Pablo Longoria as president three years ago, Jorge Sampaoli, Igor Tudor, Marcelino and Gattuso have led the team, in addition to temporary workers Nasser Larguet and Jacques Abardonado.

Longoria is therefore working on the next stage, while this stormy season bears the weight of each of its questionable or failed choices: recruitment of Marcelino then Gattuso, frantic and failed transfer windows, weakening of the &# 39;effective.

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