President of an elite club in France confirms receiving threats from ultras, organized fans, and comments on the team’s difficult situation to the local newspaper
Despite being one of the biggest clubs in France, the Olympique de Marseille has not been going through a good phase in recent months, and the crisis has worsened considerably. As a result, the club’s president gave an interview to the newspaper “La Provence”, where he even revealed that he had cried during a meeting with the fans last Monday, the 18th.
“Under current conditions, it is very difficult to have a project. It’s impossible to work“, he stated Pablo Longoriawho also commented on the former coach’s resignation, Marcelino Garcia:’I can not accept. I can’t hear: ‘That’s how it is in Marseille’. Marcelino told me: ‘Under current conditions, it is impossible to work’. It is not normal for a football manager to be threatened. You can criticize us, we are paid for it. But being threatened…“.
In addition to the aforementioned topic, Longoria also guaranteed that he will not resign from the position he won after being appointed by the businessman Frank McCourt, owner of the club. According to him, he underwent an audit to prove his innocence of accusations of embezzlement, which ended up happening.
“Do you know how many times I’ve experienced this in the last few months? Many times. That’s why I decided to open an audit, because I wanted to give my owner confidence and demonstrate that there was nothing. I gave away all my bank accounts, my phone numbers, my emails, even my conversations with my mother“, added the president.
Source: sportbuzz
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