OM supporter “Titi is you the boss” tells his transfer window

• Former military, Thierry Mode spends several hours every day in front of the entrance of the Commandery, in Marseille.
• This OM supporter gleans a lot of information about his favorite club.
• He then posts them on Twitter, where he is followed by almost 17,000 people.

"Titi? He spends more time at the Commandery than some OM employees! This regular at the Robert-Louis Dreyfus training center does not even exaggerate. Thierry Mode, alias "Titi is you the boss", is part of the decor of 33, crosses Martine. The security agents regularly pay him for coffee, the players salute him, the other supporters question him: "At what time do they leave training?" Shall we see Thauvin? "

His shaved head and his good smile appear on dozens of selfies, all published on Twitter, where he is hyperactive - and followed by 17,000 people. "OM occupy the majority of my days, especially during the transfer window," admits this former non-commissioned officer of the Foreign Legion, 56 years old and retired for fifteen years. After wandering around in the former Yugoslavia and all over the African continent, this native of the Champagne-Ardenne region decided to settle in Marseille "to live fully [his] passion for OM. "

"He's a crab, he never lets go!" "

Every day - except when the Olympians are on the move - "Titi" takes his car and rushes to the Commandery: "I never get too lazy to go! There is no better place to get information than by being directly at the source. "It is sometimes hidden" in a secret place where I can follow training on the sly ". Otherwise, it is posted in front of the main entrance, from where it does not miss anything.

Here is the arrival of super Mario at the Commandery 😉💙🔵⚪️😎 pic.twitter.com/YtVWS4ABzH

In summer, “Titi” and his friends regularly bring garden chairs and something to grab a snack. They have also made friends with some players, like Luiz Gustavo, who gave them some of his furniture when he left Marseille.

Here are the friends 💙💙💙💙 pic.twitter.com/04yfbl0Fak

By force, "Titi" manages to make a few "shots", like this first photo of the arrival of Valentin Rongier at Marignane airport:

We were in front of the Commandery and we see Andoni Zubizarreta coming out. We left by car, we almost followed him on the highway… And clearly, he was surprised to see us at the airport! "

The evening continued in front of the training center, with the journalists who followed the crazy negotiations between Kita, Eyraud and the Rongier clan. "We hit the bars with Titi, it was fun chatting, the evening went faster," recalls Mathieu Grégoire, journalist for L'Equipe . He also admits that he sometimes contacts Titi to glean small details for his articles. A schedule, for example: "Titi is square, it will not give you bad info. It is an irreducible, it is always there ... It is a crab, it never lets go! "

OM "like a lifeline"

The L'Equipe correspondent also appreciates when "Titi" acts as "mediator" and calms the most vehement supporters who squat at the entrance to the Commandery. "Titi is always benevolent, I call him" the dad "because he is always attentive, he always tries to help us", engages Charles, one of his friends at Commanderie.

Michel's ceremony this morning 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/7yWwHu7jc8

Thierry Mode regularly takes advantage of his notoriety on the networks to carry out good actions: in 2019, he launched a kitty so that Michel Scotto di Rinaldi, a supporter of OM without family, is no longer buried in the square of the destitute of Saint-Pierre cemetery. More recently, Thierry and several of his "followers" have offered to a supporter "in great social distress" a weekend in Marseille for OM-Angers.

"Titi is a real good guy, who has a hard family history and who is attached to OM as a lifeline," says Mathieu Grégoire. When Titi is not "at OM", he takes care of his disabled wife. "Thierry does not show that he is suffering from that," slips Imad, one of his friends. But for sure: if he goes to the Commandery, it is also to try to forget his worries. "

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