Foot OM – OM: This delirium of McCourt does not pass in Marseille

Despite sales rumors that spring up almost every week, Frank McCourt repeats on every occasion his attachment to OM and his great ambitions to put the club back on top.

Even if it means aiming much too high, as when he announces and then confirms that his ambition is still to win the Champions League in the years to come. Enough to scream Jean-Pierre Bernès, former leader of OM and now players’ agent, who does not understand this type of statement which completely removes the level of the team from sporting reality. Because at the moment, Olympique de Marseille is not even fighting for a place in the Champions League. This is to say the work that remains to be done, and if the supporters are aware of it, Jean-Pierre Bernès would also like this to be the case for the owner of OM.

« Marseille is the football capital in France, it is the city most passionate about football. There, OM is an institution. People need to like this club. Results are expected, the field is important, the sporting competition. There is also this need to vibrate, to take pleasure. It is an audience of enthusiasts, very demanding, but also of connoisseurs, it should not be forgotten. We cannot deceive the Marseille public, tell them that you have recruited a great player if it is not one. There have been a lot of them, he knows what it is. After a quarter of an hour, he knows … We must find great players. This shortage of great players, the Marseillais suffer a little. This club has always needed headliners. But of course they have a cost, economic competition is important and we cannot spend the money we do not have. So we have to be clear with this Marseille audience, not to deceive him, to tell him we are going to win the Champions League within two years, to be sincere with him because he is a positive force, not a negative one. This audience is aware of the value of a team and the gap that exists today with Paris, for example, in terms of budgets, everything. But today, there is a real sporting competition ahead. And Paris, in a season of L1, you only meet them twice. So the rest of the Championship, if you work well you can beat a lot of teams. It is not OM should be, it is OM must be in the leading teams. It is unthinkable that this club is not fighting for Champions League places every year », Delivered in France Football a Jean-Pierre Bernès disillusioned by the current ranking of OM.

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