Olympique de Marseille is (already) looking for its new coach. While Jean-Louis Gasset, who arrived on the Marseille bench on February 20 to replace Gennaro Gattuso, will leave Canebière at the end of the season, Marseille leaders want to “start a new cycle of two to three seasons with a first-rate coach plan, experienced under pressure, capable of implementing an enticing style of play and making Marseille supporters, disconcerted by the incessant changes, dream, reveals L’Équipe in its columns this Friday.
The Pablo Longoria-Medhi Benatia tandem would have several names in mind. And the priority track would be nothing more or less than Paulo Fonseca, the LOSC technician, already courted last year to replace Igor Tudor. “It remains the priority, but in this context, the talks are less obvious. There is a lot of uncertainty on the OM side, about its presence in the European Cup next season, the shape of the squad, about the envelope which will allow it to be strengthened,” a source indicated to the sports daily. The file therefore promises to be difficult. And all the more so since the Portuguese, at the end of his contract next June, would be courted by several fine European teams after his two great seasons in the North.
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In addition to Paulo Fonseca, Olympique de Marseille would closely follow Sergio Conceiçao, who has just extended with FC Porto until June 2028 but will perhaps not be retained by the Dragons this summer, and…Franck Haise. The RC Lens coach, highly appreciated by the Olympian president, would be “at a crossroads in his career” and “could be tempted by an even more intense challenge in L1, before heading abroad”, reports L’Équipe . Among the other leads, we would notably find Thiago Motta, who is doing excellent work with Bologna FC, Vincenzo Italiano, the current coach of Fiorentina and Habib Beye, the ex-Marseille defender who has just brought Red Star up in League 2.