A banner deployed by OM supporters against Jacques-Henri Eyraud.

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  • Dozens of supporters expressed their anger towards Jacques-Henri Eyraud, the president of the Olympique de Marseille, Wednesday evening in front of the Vélodrome stadium.

  • They demanded his departure after making remarks deemed offensive to OM supporters working at the club.

Dozens of supporters gathered Wednesday evening in front of the Velodrome stadium with heavy smoke bombs.

Despite their absence from the stadium because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the supporters of Olympique de Marseille know how to make themselves heard.

To encourage their team, as before the match against Saint-Etienne, or to put a saving pressure on them, as before the victory against Bordeaux.

Before the match against Montpellier on Wednesday night (3-1 victory), it was neither for one nor the other.

But to demand the resignation of President Jacques-Henri Eyraud.

"Eyraud, break", could one read on a banner deployed by the supporters on the square Jean Bouin, just before being dispersed by tear gas of the police called in reinforcement.

"Real insult"

Much criticized since his arrival at the presidency of OM at the same time as the takeover by Franck McCourt, Jacques Henri Eyraud has taken a new step in a video released on social networks during the Christmas holidays.

In this videoconference organized by a Parisian cool-working space, “the Shack”, Jacques-Henri Eyraud said: “When I arrived, I was struck to see that 99% of the club's employees were from Marseille.

I think it's a danger, a risk.

Why am I saying that ?

Because I was there for a few months and it turns out that we had a two-game losing streak.

I saw in the company how the mines and the faces were closed.

The depressions were near.

In terms of productivity, the impact that a defeat had on attitudes and daily behavior was strong.

And that is not right.

The English, the Americans, who often have more distance from these subjects, say that when you are manager of a football club, the first thing to be wary of is to recruit, I quote, a "Fan in a suit", because it is someone who will tend to let speak his passion for the club, for his team, rather than looking at the course defined together and which will have to be held at all costs ".

Jacques Henri Eyraud even went further by qualifying the OMTV channel, and its employees, as “the 19th century of the media”.

Words that immediately rekindled the anger of Marseille supporters.

"His last statements explaining that Marseillais are less apt than non Marseillais to do their job properly within the club were only the last straw, offensive and experienced as a real insult by the supporters of the OM that we are ”, explain several supporters present Wednesday evening in front of the stadium.

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And the vase was already well filled, with “the absence of a real long-term project.

Communication and marketing rather than sporting ambition, the Uber eats in green and purple jerseys, the lack of respect towards the supporters, the silence in the face of injustices and decisions of the authorities of which the club is victim, the failed mercatos and the players who are dragged like balls, the shameful European campaign… ”, list these supporters who explain that this opinion is widely shared by the supporters.

"He is not the right person to lead a club with passion and history like OM", they summarize.

Fortunately for Jacques Henri Eyraud that the matches are played behind closed doors because of the Covid-19, the bronca in the stands would be terrible.

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