The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-de-Marseille-c40127 coach has revealed that he will not be at the helm next season due to various reasons. However, it appears that sporting reasons are just one side of the story
Yesterday, Olympique de Marseille coach, Didier Deschamps confirmed that he will no longer be the club’s coach for next season. There will be no fourth season for the Basque native and according to several sources, an official statement by the club will
be released in a few hours time before training resumes this Monday.
Many people have come to believe that Deschamps has chosen to end his time at the Velodrome largely due to its inability to compete the likes of Lille, Paris Saint-Germain and Montpellier Herault in the summer transfer window.
The club is mired with financial constraints and due to this, DD will not be able to build a strong squad of his choice. Furthermore, a few star players would be sold in order to make sure that the club does not record a debt of 35 million euros by the end
of fiscal 2012/2013.
Lack of financial means has indeed played a big part in Deschamps’ decision. The club is largely going to rely on its academy – an idea that Deschamps does not find quite enchanting.
However, sporting reasons are not the only causes attributed to the former AS Monaco coach’s resignation. Various French new agencies claim that though Deschamps was not impressed with what the future beholds for the club, he was not entirely against it
and was willing to make a few compromises.
What displeased the Frenchman was the inability of club president, Vincent Labrune to be decisive on certain sensitive issues the biggest of which was the coach’s strained relation with sporting director Jose Anigo.
After refusing to decide between the two men last season, the feud became a hot topic in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 as the duo vilified eachother in the media. Labrune thought that he had restored order but he was wrong.
Reports claim that during the meeting between Labrune, Deschamps, Anigo and club’s major shareholder Margarita Louis Dreyfus, the coach was given a road map made by Anigo. Labrune wanted the ideas to be imposed on Deschamps but the Frenchman resisted and
thus chose to end his time at Marseille.
The roller-coaster ride of the former World Cup winner at OM is over and it could be a big loss to the club.
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