The main reason he refused to come

Rayane Benmokrane Professional journalist following OM (Olympic Marseille). Covers news from OM and the OM transfer window for Marseille media outlet Football Club de Marseille. Director of the show Débat Foot Marseille (“La Voix”). Trained at the Marseille journalism school.

It’s over, Christophe Galtier will not come to Olympique de Marseille this season. According to information from L’Equipe, the French coach preferred to repel Marseille’s advances for a very specific reason.

For several hours, the rumor Christophe Galtier gradually died out to give way to the arrival of Gennaro Gattuso as coach of theOlympic Marseille. According to newspaper information The team, the Frenchman will not come for a very specific reason.

It’s not a firm no from Galtier

Indeed, contrary to what La Provence announced at the start of the week, Marseille Olympic would really like to bring his coach before the match against AS Monaco. It is precisely this need to come so early in the season that would not help Christophe Galtier. The coach passed by the AXIS, the LOSC, l’OGC Nice or even the PSG had seriously studied the possibility of coming to Marseille but it did not happen. L’Equipe reminds us “that this is not a firm “no”.

Why Galtier declined OM’s proposal

Contacted by OM to become its new coach, Christophe Galtier studied the proposal but ultimately declined it https://t.co/eVP7Ioq4GM pic.twitter.com/9N9UVNP6Mg

— THE TEAM (@lequipe) September 27, 2023

Di Meco has a strong opinion on the Galtier option

By Meco has a strong opinion on this subject. According to the former defender of the Olympic of Marseille, Galtier would be the perfect profile to take over this sick team which has been in crisis for over a week now.

⚪? Éric Di Meco on the possibility of Christophe Galtier at OM: “If we take Christophe’s career and remove his time at PSG, he is the ideal candidate. » #rmclive pic.twitter.com/WOmQPkVSFC

— Super Moscato Show (@Moscato_Show) September 25, 2023

“Let’s imagine. We take Christophe’s career and we remove the passage to PSG: he is the ideal candidate, the natural candidate, explained the former Marseille kid on the airwaves of RMC. It is no coincidence that OM was interested in him several times. He knows Ligue 1, he knows this club, he knows the players… There, we have to move quickly, we are coming out of a special week. The coming weeks are going to be important so we have to perform well straight away.”