
While Pablo Longoria and Pedro Iriondo have resumed their functions within OM, Javier Ribalta is taking a step back and could leave OM. Stéphane Tessier seems to be taking up more and more space and his influence is growing within the club…
This Tuesday, the Team explains that Javier Ribalta went to Switzerland to recharge his batteries and does not comment on the situation of loon. “He only responds to a few close people, giving them a clear pattern at the start. Ribalta has no clause in his contract. » If the future of Longoria’s right arm seems to lie elsewhere, the administrative and financial director Stéphane Tessier is very involved.
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Flip, tending to a departure…
The sports daily explains that Tessier “was not really marked by the meeting with the supporters groups. He knew the agenda and the major complaints (the women’s file, cronyism on the Marcelino case…) and he saw others in Saint-Étienne (2010-2015) when he was general manager, before a career as an agent and entrepreneur. » The latter would be quite close to the clan Galtier.
Tessier near Galtier
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Tessier would be nicknamed “Stéphane the magician” by his collaborators, for his propensity to juggle numbers and find financial solutions in order to help a spendthrift sports sector. » He could form a duo at the head of the executive with HR Cecilia BarontiniThe ASSE alumni clan seems to be gaining influence within the club…
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Stéphane Tessier was General Manager of AS Saint-Étienne between 2010 and 2015. Romain Molina explained in a video published on his Youtube channel : “The financial director, Stéphane Tessier aka Stéphane le Magicien, is making recruits. That is to say that Aubameyang is not Ribalta, he is not the coach, he is “the Stéphanois gang”. It was he who brought Ludovic Paradinas to take care of the pre-training in Marseille. » There is also David Friiocurrent Sports Director of OM who was HR manager of Professional Football at ASSE between 2017 and 2020. Gregory Lamelacommercial director of OM who was customer director in Forez from 2005 to 2016, Ludovic Paradinascurrent Head of Scouting for the OM training center.