Dressed in Olympique Lyonnais coaching suit, Rudi Garcia made his comeback Sunday night in Marseille. The former technician at the Olympique de Marseille had a contrasting night against his former club with a 2-1 defeat. The opportunity for our consultants to return on Sunday evening, on the mandate of Rudi Garcia at the head of the OM between October 2016 and June 2019.
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Trained and player at OM from 1992 to 1998, Marc Libbra remains very attached to the Marseille club. According to him, the hatred of the Marseille fans is due to the "moment in which he left and to the state of OM when he left". Arrived in October 2016, Rudi Garcia starts his first full season in 2017-2018. A season "pretty good with the last two months a quarter and a semifinal of the Europa League.Although the OM was blessed gods, there have been great things with the public," recalls Marc Libbra. The next season, things were "spoiled".
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Over time, he has not built anything
Our consultant then castigates the choice of Marseille leaders to have "leave the keys of the truck" to Rudi Garcia. According to Marc Libbra, "Rudi Garcia did a little bit of anything, and we can also blame him for having destroyed the project a bit, but his record is not that bad, but when you look Over time, he did not build anything, he used the moment to take what was needed. " Marc Libbra's review is shared by Ambre Godillon. According to Yahoo Sport's journalist, Rudi Garcia's record is not "dramatic but clearly insufficient" before recalling that Garcia "failed to achieve the goals set by the Eyraud-McCourt duo."
Disastrous communication
Beyond the results, Ambre Godillon judges the communication of Rudi Garcia "laughable and clumsy." Our consultant also reminds that Garcia "has put all the fans back" before discussing his victories in "deception in Ligue 1, as the bottom of the game was close to zero in terms of imagination." Only "defender" of Rudi Garcia? Javier Prieto Santos. The So Foot journalist recalls that Rudi Garcia is "the last French coach to have brought a French club to the European Cup final, just for that, the transition from Rudi Garcia to OM is good, I do not think so. that the Marseille fans have vibrated a lot these last fifteen years apart from the first six months of Bielsa. "
In his second season, our consultants critically "the mismanagement of executive players" by citing the case of Luiz Gustavo. Javier Prieto Santos underlines "the love of the Marseille fans for the Brazilian player" before putting a layer on the management of Luiz Gustavo "He left by the little door Garcia had it play at any place . "