Despite generally convincing results, Jorge Sampaoli is clearly not unanimous at Olympique de Marseille. Tired of the Argentinian coach’s choices, the group of Dodgers supporters published a scathing press release against him.
Sampaoli, the Dodgers’ main target.
At OM more than elsewhere, no one has ever had an immunity totem . It is with these words that the Dodgers closed their scathing press release against Jorge Sampaoli.
Despite the satisfactory results of Olympique de Marseille, the Argentine coach is not unanimous for several reasons. And the group of supporters did not fail to remind him.
Tactics, a real problem
First point, the propensity of the Marseille technician to make and break his team. Despite convincing results and still achievable objectives, many questions continue to pollute the daily life of Olympique de Marseille. It obviously concerns the human and sports management of J. Sampaoli. In question, the incessant changes on the part of the Argentinian from one match to another, whatever the result. He has never renewed the same team since the three shots of the season can we read in this text.
One can understand the frustration and the bitterness of the players, subjected to the humor, the desires and the choices of a trainer without a coherent line of conduct. Game systems also lend themselves to discussion, and above all to questioning. Three defenders, then four, middle three, four, five, flat, diamond. All the geometric figures have passed through it. What credit should be given to a technician who aligns a player on the left wing of the attack before establishing him at right-back the following match? ask the Dodgers.
Mandanda and Milik at the heart of the discord
Second point, the treatment reserved Steve Mandanda and Arkadiusz Milik. What about his management of certain players, going from the status of indisputable holder to that of replacing without any legitimate explanation, the next meeting? Mandanda’s treatment is unfair and disrespectful to the player and especially to the man. He never failed, always behaved as an exemplary captain and teammate. His exit from the team is not based on any sporting logic. His rare tenures prove that he has lost none of his talent and his involvement. There remains Il Fenomeno, no offense to some recall the group.
The Milik case appeals to all OM supporters. Never, for nearly 10 years, has our club had such a player in its squad. A world-class goalscorer. The famous big striker so desired for all these years. His career and his statistics speak for him. It should be the first name the coach puts down on the score sheet. For Sampaoli, the Pole is not the man for the job. At best a Payet understudy! We believe we are dreaming. When he leaves, because he will unfortunately have to leave the club quickly for a major team on the continent, we will see that he was of the race of the great numbers 9 underlines the press release.
A ple imitation of Bielsa
Before ending with a frontal attack. Sampaoli arrived with Marcelo Bielsa’s disciple sign hanging on his back. In the 80s, an advertisement extolled the merits of a non-alcoholic drink which looked like another, which it really had. Sampaoli would be a kind of Canada Dry from Bielsa. looks like it, but has neither the taste nor the flavor. A complete imitation. When dogmatism harms the team’s results and traps the players in shackles that impact the collective, sometimes you have to be pragmatic and put your taste aside. What is valid for the coach is also valid for the players , ends the text. Here is Sampaoli re-dressed for the winter and even the next one. And probably the next too…
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