Failing to be able to offer the game, Ligue 1 has been agitated behind the scenes for a few days. After Zubizarreta’s departure from OM – where there is still uncertainty about the future of Villas-Boas – it is Luís Campos who could leave LOSC. The 55-year-old Portuguese man told his president Gérard Lopez this Sunday that he wanted to be released from his contract.
As a reminder, Campos’ contract with Lopez is not a “classic” lease since it is linked to the club “via his company”, as the Lille boss recently recalled. The Portuguese is under contract for another three years.
Arrived in Lille in 2017, the sports adviser would be unhappy not to have been consulted and / or heard during the last events related to the club (end of the championship, contacts between Christophe Galtier and OM, positioning on the transfer market. .). This position is reminiscent of the divorce between Campos and Vadim Vasilyev in Monaco in 2016.
After a complicated first season (17th in 2017-2018), the LOSC Campos version finished 2nd and 4th in Ligue 1, and made, during this period, three of the four biggest sales in its history (Pépé, Leão, Thiago Mendes). On the arrivals side too, there have been record and remarkable investments in Renato Sanches, Yusuf Yazici, Thiago Maia and Victor Osimhen.
He will not go to OM … with Eyraud
Despite rumors sending him to Olympique de Marseille in recent days, if LOSC leaves, Luís Campos should not join the Vélodrome, or rather, Jacques-Henri Eyraud. Relations between the two men have been rather tense for four years.
In October 2016, while negotiations between the former coach of Gil Vicente and JHE had not been successful and Campos had preferred to join the Mastiffs, the president of OM had commented at a press conference: “I am not here to talk about the positions of applicants for the position of sports director at Olympique de Marseille. However, I can tell you what are the qualities necessary to convince us and join the OM company. There is independence from -vis spheres of influence or power specific to the world of football, there is the team spirit, that is to say putting the spirit of the group before his personal interests, and there is also the interest of the company which must be, at all times, more important than the personal interest. If we combine these three qualities then we can consider joining Olympique de Marseille. And in any case, it is clear that for us nothing and nobody can to feel superior to the OM institution. ” A tackle for the native of Esposende who has obviously left traces … It remains to be seen whether Gérard Lopez will manage to convince his adviser to stay.
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