Olympique de Marseille will part ways with their coach Gennaro Gattuso

The Italian technician arrived at the end of September to turn around the Marseille club, but pays for the recent results of the Marseille team.

Gennaro Gattuso will no longer be the coach of Olympique de Marseille. The information was confirmed on Monday, February 19, by corroborating sources at the sports department of Radio France. It is also a separation “from a common agreement” according to our colleagues from France 3 Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur since a “amicable termination of contract is considered”. Having fallen to ninth place in Ligue 1, the Bouches-du-Rhône club, beaten in Brest on Sunday evening after “hit rock bottom”got stuck in a negative spiral of results with seven matches in a row without a victory in all competitions.

With no response to the fragility of his players, Gennaro Gattuso put an end to his Marseille adventure, five months after succeeding Marcelino, who also passed quickly on the Marseille bench at the start of the season. The defeat in Brest (1-0) was too much for the Italian coach, especially as his men conceded defeat despite a Brest team reduced to ten.

Gattuso arrived in Marseille on September 27 in a powder keg, against a backdrop of strong tensions between the club’s leaders and its supporters. The first technician recruited, the Spaniard Marcelino, was criticized for the too cautious game proposed, in radical contrast with the volcanic Transalpine. But while extra-sporting tensions have temporarily eased, the game proposed by Olympique de Marseille has never fully convinced.

Jean-Louis Gasset as interim?

Olympique de Marseille will now have to urgently find a new technician to try to save the end of the season. According to several sources contacted by the sports management of Radio France, OM however wish to have a new coach next Thursday for the match at the Vélodrome in the Europa League. The profile sought is that of a coach “experimented”, “rather French-speaking” And “capable of waking up this team”. The profile of Jean-Louis Gasset, former coach of the Girondins de Bordeaux, AS Saint-Etienne or the Ivory Coast, is being considered.

OM are ten points behind second place in Ligue 1 held by their tormentor on Sunday, Stade Brestois, and eight lengths behind Monaco, in fifth place, synonymous with European qualification. His future on this stage begins on Thursday, with the second leg of the Europa League at the Stade Vélodrome against Shakhtar Donetsk. In the first leg last Thursday, the Marseillais were held 2-2 in the final moments of the match, after leading twice.