Olympique de Marseille coach André Villas-Boas announced at a press conference on Tuesday that he had submitted his resignation after a disagreement over the transfer window, specifying that he was waiting for a response from management.
"I don't want anything from OM, no money. I just want to leave," said the Portuguese technician the day after the transfer window closed and three days after the intrusion of exasperated supporters at the Marseille training center .
After the departures of Kevin Strootman (loaned to Genoa), Kostas Mitroglou (released) and Morgan Sanson (Aston Villa), OM, which carried out a downsizing during this transfer window, sent its Serbian winger Nemanja Radonjic , on loan from Hertha Berlin.
Sporting director Pablo Longoria also succeeded in filling the positions targeted by coach André Villas-Boas: after a scorer (Arkadiusz Milik) and a side (Pol Lirola), a midfielder arrived at the very end of the transfer window, Olivier Ntcham, on loan from Celtic FC Glasgow.
The 24-year-old Frenchman arrives with an interesting CV, and 43 matches in European Cups with the Scottish team.
It is his recruitment that would not have obtained the approval of André Villas Boas.
"He is a player I said no to. He was not on our list," he said during the press conference.
With AFP
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