For our editorialist Virginie Phulpin, "there is more pilot on the plane" to Olympique Marseille, which hosts Nice Wednesday night for the third day of Ligue 1.

EDITORIAL

"There are no more pilots on the plane" at OM. This is the diagnosis of our columnist Virginie Phulpin while Marseille host Nice on Wednesday night, on behalf of the third day of Ligue 1. While the Aiglons have just been bought by Ineos, the Marseillais worried more and more, to all levels.

"All the signs are alarming, it's a long way off, the Champion's project, you remember, that was the expression of owner Frank McCourt, to show his ambitions when he bought the club three years ago." Even within the OM, we regret this expression because it has given rise to dreams that management is totally unable to materialize.This is turning into Project Tom Thumb.

Look at the coach, André Villas Boas. He has just arrived and is already depressed. We almost want to give him a play. His last press conference was lunar. "We do not have money, we can not buy players, the owner does not want to spend." I have the impression that he wonders what he has come to do in this galley.

OM is no longer a competitor for the leading roles

Yet the owner of the OM has injected money into the club: he had promised 200 million euros when he arrived, and he spent them. But for what result? No. The money has been badly invested: OM has chosen players at the end of their career rather than promising young people, and that, in the long run, it can not pay. So when the president of the club, Jacques-Henri Eyraud, gives his opinion on Jim Ratcliffe, the new owner of the OGC Nice, rejoicing and saying that he is for the competition, it makes me smile.

Today, OM is no longer quite a competitor for the leading roles. Yesterday the club unveiled a special jersey for its 120 years. It is very beautiful, but it feels almost heartbroken. It's good to celebrate the glorious past, but it would be better to think about the future at the same time ...

Supporters can not take it anymore

The fans, they could not even before the season starts, with a banner "direction resignation", deployed before the OM does not touch his first ball. The number of subscribers dropped at the Velodrome stage. In other words, Frank McCourt's little sentences like "Marseille is the story of David against Goliath, money does not buy the heart", it does not work anymore. Heart, passion, obviously there is to resell around the OM.

But does management have a heart? When we see how Adil Rami and the club doctor have been fired, I am not sure. There may be no money, but obviously there is no pity either ... "