The former sports director of OM, now a recognized agent, has not seen Bernard Tapie, his former president, since the mid-1990s.

FACING THE AUDITORS

They were the two faces of the ambivalent OM of the late 1980s and early 1990s, both winners of the Champions League against AC Milan and demoted to the second division after the scandal VA-OM . Since then, Bernard Tapie, then president of the club, and Jean-Pierre Bernès, its general manager, have not seen each other again.

"He said to me, 'When you're in Paris, come see me' and I've never been there"

"I sometimes have it on the phone, but physically, it's been 25 years since I've seen it," Didier Deschamps' current agent told Europe 1 on the program "Face aux auditeurs", which he was the exceptional guest. "Regularly, he calls me, and all the time, he says to me: 'When you're in Paris, come and see me' and I've never been there, we've had a very, very strong relationship, it's someone I really liked. "

"It has been a very important man in my career"

From the collaboration between Tapie the flamboyant and Bernès the obstinate were born some of the most beautiful teams of OM of the history, between 1989 and 1993. "It is not compared to the time ( that I have not seen it again, ed ), because we did not do that bad things, "says Jean-Pierre Bernès. "We did some good things too ... Believe me, the European Cup ( the Champions League, won in 1993 at the expense of AC Milan in the final, ed ), we were not given, we did not went to pick her up, we worked, and when we are in charge, we can not stay frozen on a problem, otherwise there are not many people in all sectors of society who would do things ... makes a mistake, it happens, we will not talk about it for 150 years. "

Nearly 26 years after the sad episode of VA-OM, which marked the end of their collaboration, Jean-Pierre Bernès is apparently ready to review his former mentor. "He's someone I've had a lot of affection for," he admits. "I owe him a lot because he was a very important man in my career, we never saw each other but I think we'll see each other again." Would the call be launched?

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