Frank McCourt narrowly avoids a disaster at OM!

The month of September was hot at OM. After a stormy meeting with some groups of supporters, Marcelino and Javier Ribalta decided to leave. This was also the wish of Pablo Longoria, but the Marseille president ultimately stayed. The intervention of Frank McCourt would also have been decisive.

On September 18, the meeting between the management of theABOUT and certain groups of supporters will have turned into a fiasco. Indeed, at the end of this meeting, Marcelino resigned, as did Javier Ribalta. Gennaro Gattuso replaced the first while Medhi Benatia is about to do it with the second. But another departure was narrowly avoided.

McCourt retains Longoria

Indeed, according to information from THE TEAM, Pablo Longoria also wanted to leave theABOUT after this meeting which he experienced very badly. However, Frank McCourt intervened to convince his president to stay, and his speech must have been convincing. The Bostonian, who is certainly distant on a daily basis, nevertheless continues to manage the club and refuses to have such changes imposed on him. Tuesday evening at the microphone of RMC, Pablo Longoria also explained the reasons which pushed him to stay at theABOUT.

“I have to think about the good of the institution”

« I had to think not “just” like a football manager in charge of the athlete, my responsibility is greater. I have to think about the good of the institution, defend the interest of our owner, the general interest of the club. That’s what I took into consideration and that’s why I made the decision to continue. It is because I have these responsibilities within this club and a love for this club that I could not tolerate putting it in this situation of instability which would have been very negative for the general interest of OM. . This is the most important thing for me », Confided the president of theABOUT.