Medhi Benatia will leave Olympique de Marseille at the end of the season. The sports advisor who became director of football during his 2 and a half years at the club, completed a good number of transfers. One of them turned into a disaster. The main person concerned spoke about his delicate passage in the Marseille city on the airwaves of RMC.
A few months before being promoted to football director of theMarseille Olympic, Medhi Benatia had increased the reinforcements during the summer transfer window of 2024 in order to allow Roberto DeZerbicoach who had just been inducted onto the OM bench, to have as many solutions as possible available for his team compositions. In the middle of a large number of reinforcements, a player Ligue 1 arrived in Marseille and experienced an increasingly complicated situation in sporting terms as the weeks went by.
“I believed in the project, I was brought there through Medhi Benatia and the coach”
Lilian Brassier settled in the Phoenician city after having confirmed the hopes placed in him at Brest Stadium. But just six months after his arrival, the defender walked out the door and ran to Stade Rennais. As part of the show Génération After of RMC, brassiere nevertheless revealed that he had been convinced by Medhi Benatia et Roberto DeZerbi having both worked for his recruitment in Marseille.
“My failure at OM? It was complicated for me, I think everyone saw that. I believed in the project, I was brought there through Medhi Benatia and the coach. I believed in it, I hoped it would go well, but unfortunately it didn’t go as planned and afterward it was complicated to find the why and how. The result is that it didn’t do it. What if I had difficulty managing the Marseille pressure? It’s not the pressure, certainly overnight everything can change, but it’s true that the context moves very quickly. All it takes is one bad match and you quickly find yourself overwhelmed.”
“I told myself that Marseille was going to attract me, that I was going to enjoy this adventure which was shorter than expected”
“For me, it didn’t work for many things, I adapted poorly to what the coach wanted from me. I was also less used to playing that way. It surprised me a lot, I was adapting, I tried to do the best I could. I told myself that Marseille was going to attract me, that I was going to enjoy this adventure which was shorter than expected. I learned and it didn’t weaken me.”. the conclusion Lilian Brassier on RMC.
