Marseille (AFP)
André Villas-Boas will he leave Marseille with the departure of Andoni Zubizaerreta? OM president Jacques-Henri Eyraud hopes he will stay "many more years", he said on RMC on Friday, but did not assure that the Portuguese remained.
"Things are extremely clear from my point of view, André Villas-Boas is the coach of Olympique de Marseille and I hope he will be for many more years," said Eyraud.
The "wish" and the "desire" of the president, who said it to the coach "and to his agent", is to make the Portuguese "the architect of the sports project, which rests largely on André, who did an extraordinary job sportingly. "
Things are less clear visibly in the mind of the technician, who has not yet responded. "He didn't tell me he was going to stay," added "JHE," and the manager "made no offer" for an extension.
"AVB" had linked his fate earlier in the season to that of the sports director who left the club Thursday evening.
"I actually heard him raise a strong doubt about his ability to continue without Andoni Zubizarreta at the club today. It will be his responsibility, his decision," said JHE.
"I respect individual decisions like that, if André puts above all, above the sports project, the players, the connection linked with the supporters, his link with Andoni Zubizarreta, what You want me to tell you?" dropped Eyraud.
"Nobody is superior to the institution, neither a coach, nor a sports director, nor even a president, he added. This institution is beyond us, it has experienced much deeper crises" than that which is profile if AVB, adored by its players and the public, leaves.
Eyraud also mentioned financial fair play and the sanction that should fall on OM "in a few weeks", but insisted: "We are OM, our ambition is intact".
If the club has planned to develop "trading" of players, "contrary to what I read here or there, not everyone is for sale, it is not time for sales at the Marseille Olympique ", he concluded.
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