On July 1, he resigned from his post as OM coach, after qualifying the club for the Champions League. More than a month and a half later, Jorge Sampaoli returned to the reasons for his remarkable departure in the program “Bem, amigos”, on the Brazilian television channel SporTV.
“We qualified for the Champions League by playing a certain way, but we needed more to pass the new stage,” he said. The president (Pablo Longoria) said he could not go too fast on the transfer window, and that he was going to wait for the end of the transfer market. This argument did not sit well with me. I needed players as quickly as possible to build the team. I did not have the necessary conditions to continue. »
” I have been very happy “
According to him, it was therefore the differences with the Marseille management that precipitated his departure. “My pace and my goals are not the same as the leaders. There is nothing wrong with pretending different things. The important thing is to seek excellence and want the best for OM,” he added.
But the Argentinian technician nevertheless has good memories of his time in Marseille: “Every time I entered the Vélodrome, my heart was racing. Being the coach of this club has been a pleasure for me. I have been very happy “. At OM, he will have won more than half of his matches in Ligue 1, with 55.1% of victories.
For the rest of his career, the former Argentina and Chile coach says he has already received offers, but does not yet want to “plan” his next destination.
