André Villas Boas admitted going through his first results crisis with OM.

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NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP

  • Olympique de Marseille faces Stade Rennais on Saturday at 9 p.m. at the Stade Vélodrome for the 22nd day of Ligue 1.

  • Despite the crisis of results that OM is going through, with three consecutive defeats, coach André Villas Boas will be on the sidelines.

  • His case divides the supporters, some believe that he is no longer the man for the situation when others blame the players.

"Yes I will stay, unless Pablo [Longoria] wants to fire me".

To see the red cheeks of Pablo Longoria, the new sports director, the subject of the departure of trainer André Villas Boas is quite delicate on the side of Olympique de Marseille.

And the main interested party continues to broach the subject, rather with a smile, since the defeat against Nîmes (2-1) in mid-January, the beginning of "the crisis of results" that the club is going through, with three defeats immediately in Ligue 1. "My place is at the disposal of the management", he repeated several times.

André Villas Boas should finish the season on the bench of OM, but an extension mentioned last fall now seems distant, while his contract ends in June.

And his love rating seems to be reversed with the supporters, after a first season crowned with 2nd place in the championship, and a qualification in the Champions League.

“I switched to the detractors of AVB from the match against Metz last season, this performance can alone symbolize the entire passage from Villas Boas to OM.

The game offer is often far too low and the work done by AVB does not seem necessary to reduce the “chance” factor of a football match.

Some automatisms are still not acquired.

He hasn't been the man for the job since last season, we could already see that the team depended a lot on Payet.

He can not breathe anything into the club and should be dismissed in the month of February in my opinion, ”slice Ismaël, 19 years old.

Reality of the locker room and economic cost

But OM must also face certain realities, especially economic ones.

A dismissal of André Villas Boas would be expensive.

“I think the question is not really whether AVB is the man for the job, but rather whether OM can afford to spend 4 to 5 million to fire him and his staff.

And I don't think that's the case, ”said Kylian, 25.

But he joined Ismaël on the sporting side: “Since the start of the season, there has been no playing field, and it is very often individualities that have made the difference.

The good results made it possible to mask certain shortcomings, very visible in LDC, but we can see very clearly that AVB is not able or no longer to impose its paw.

The message no longer gets through, and especially to "executives" ”.

The "executives", and in particular Dimitri Payet and Florian Thauvin have been giving the trainer a hard time for a few weeks: End of serial contracts, desire for elsewhere, moods of playgrounds.

And it is rather on this side that we must look, according to Romain, 31 years old.

“In his defense, he must suffer from some egos in the locker room.

But it remains its role to put OM before the desires of a few players.

He has a tendency to lock himself in a risky communication lately, especially on journalists, the media and on refereeing to hide the rather pathetic level of play of his team in recent weeks.

It is up to him to straighten the bar and in any case it is his last "joker" ”.

"We are in our place"

If we say that supporters often have short memories, those of OM do not want to sweep away the feat achieved last season and the return of OM to C1 after six blank seasons.

“He's doing it with the means at hand.

Last season was extraordinary in terms of results, this year we are practically in our place so he continues to do a good job ... And then changing for change has never been beneficial ", considers Régis, 32, and subscriber to the Velodrome for 20 years.

Pablo Longoria has already checked several names to replace AVB this summer, including Lucien Favre according to Téléfoot, and Maurizio Sarri, according to CalcioMercatoWeb.

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