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Why OM relies on post-training

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In recent years, the results of Olympique de Marseille at the level of its youth sections have been quite disappointing. To overcome this, Pablo Longoria, the president of OM, decided to review everything and appoint a new director of the training center. It is Marco Otero, the former Valencia CF, who has been responsible for this task since last summer.

But the Phocaeans had already undertaken the major maneuvers. In the summer of 2021, Pablo Longoria was going to steal two young players from Nice, Salim Ben Seghir, once again present in the group called up to go to Montpellier, and Bilel Nadir. Two young elements to quickly bring to the reserve, descended, last year, from National 2 to National 3. This summer, other elements came to be added to all this.

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A few groups, but no more

This season, it is Emran Soglo (ex-Chelsea), Roggerio Nyakossi (ex-Servette Genève) and Bartug Elmaz (ex-Galatasaray) who have arrived in particular to try to strengthen the youth teams. This strategy comes in two stages. Of course, it is a question of offering better results to the under-19s of OM and the reserve, but also of being able to have talented young players to bring up to the first team.

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For the moment, the second solution has not really arrived even if the young Turk has already participated in a few groups in Ligue 1 this season as well as in the preparation last summer and Salim Ben Seghir has just played three short minutes of play against Toulouse (6-1) during the 16th day of Ligue 1, all this remains very meager. Even more so when you listen to Pablo Longoria give his opinion on the Olympique de Marseille training center and be surprised at the absence of local products in the first team.

Pablo Longoria is not happy

It doesn’t satisfy me. It’s really unacceptable not to have any youngsters from the academy with the A’s. This situation can’t go on any longer. It’s a failure for everyone, and I’m part of it since I arrived in 2020. That’s why we made a lot of changes. We did analytical work, a more collective approach. We must recruit young people at the local level, much more than what we do today. Players from the region must develop at the club. We should not only make acquisitions of players in post-training “, detailed the president of OM at a press conference recently.

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By his own admission, post-training is not a good solution, but he considers that he will have to use it at least for the next two seasons, because the young people at the training center are not yet at the level. At the level of the center itself, it is estimated that it will take three years to hope to see the first results of what has been undertaken.

High hopes for the 2007-2008 generation

Small problem, the life of a director of the training center is three years in the Marseille city. Just after the match against Tottenham, Javier Ribalta (director of football) and David Friio (sporting director) were present to distill their opinions in the room adjoining the one where OM’s press conferences take place at the center of Robert Louis-Dreyfus training.

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The ex-Manchester United base a lot of hopes on the generation of players born in 2007 and 2008, players who are 14 and 15 years old at present. But before all that, we will have to fill in the gaps and we should therefore see other players arrive in post-training (from around 17 years old), whose recruitment Pablo Longoria explained in our interview, to strengthen the youth sections. of OM.

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