INTERVIEW
From the depths of his native Corsica, Pascal Olmeta has lost nothing of his outspokenness. The former eccentric goalkeeper of Olympique de Marseille, Lyon or Ajaccio, has swept the news round, and in particular the setbacks of his heart club, OM, who has just separated from his sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta . "I spent years supporting, loving, playing for this club and I would never understand it. It is peculiar, but there it becomes tiring, exhausting. From generation to generation, we repeat the same things, we starts again, we rebuild and everything collapses because nothing holds and that's a shame. There, it starts to be hopeless, damn… ", he railed on Europe 1." We don't know where we go."
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Olmeta offers its services to OM
The former goalkeeper under the Tapie era (112 games), does not want the current president, Jacques-Henri Eyraud. "You can do what you want, put whoever you want ... I have a lot of respect for Jacques-Henri Eyraud, but who would like to be in his place?" he wonders. Marseille, second in Ligue 1 and qualified for the group stages of the Champions League for the first time since 2013, must find 60 million euros by the end of June to comply with the rules of financial fair play dictated by l 'UEFA.
If he does not have miracle solutions, Pascal Olmeta launched an appeal to the former on Europe 1 to try to restore some stability to OM, yet second in Ligue 1 and qualified for the next Champions League. "I want to get involved in OM. Because what I have known for 3 seasons, it was the simplicity, men of heart, field, papis Goethals (Belgian coach who won the Ligue des champions with Marseille in 1993, note) as we will do more, but always smiling, with the accent of Marseille even if you do not have it. I am sure that some alumni would be ready to return without touching astronomical sums ", says Olmeta.
And to quote some old glories: "Papins, Carlos (Mozer) Basile (Boli) who are already in place. We must ask them the question if they want to come. Me first I will say yes, but I wouldn't talk about money, it's a heart club. " Not sure that OM, looking for a football director - who will not be Antero Henrique - is receptive to this kind of call. The club which could also lose its coach André Villas-Boas in the coming days…