OLYMPIC OF MARSEILLE - As the Olympique de Marseille approaches the last weeks of its season, expectations are high with both fans and former members of the club. Among them, Eric Di Meco, OM’s iconic figure and current consultant for RMC Sport, delivered his analysis on the crucial issues of the coming weeks. When asked about the current situation and the atmosphere around the team, Di Meco spoke of a clear message to the players: “Now I have the impression that the message is: ‘The guys, we have three weeks to save our season and make it very good. Let’s not spoil everything. For we know well the temptations that can exist in the South as soon as the sun shows itself…”

The old left side did not hide its incomprehension in the face of the possible internal reasons at the club of a departure from the command office: “After, if they go to Italy because being in the command office is unhealthy, there I would no longer understand. Because if some shoot against the club, it’s easy, it’s “good-bye sir!”

OM plays much of its season over the next few weeks with this qualification for the next Champions League to get. As Mehdi Benatia recently pointed out, this objective is vital for the survival of the current project of the Phocéan club from a financial point of view. “If there were no Champions League, it would be a disaster. When we see all the work that has been done, the team we built to go to C1, I couldn’t agree to be on the podium on April 20 and more on May 18. This is not possible,” Benatia said in an interview with the regional daily La Provence this week. “Without the TV rights and the Champions League, with the club’s salaries and expenses, I was told it would be very complicated. It’s an assumed bet, a risk taking of decision makers. It is fundamental for OM to be in the Champions League,” he concluded.

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