Time to focus on Jean-Pierre Papin. The former legendary striker of the French team, OM and even AC Milan was keen to speak this Friday February 23 to provide an update and deny a desire to succeed Gennaro Gattuso on the bench of Olympique de Marseille. The former striker, stationed on the bench of the Marseille reserve, welcomed the choice of Jean-Louis Gasset, while the coach started with a success against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League last night (3-1).

Papin clarifies

Present this Friday at UEFA headquarters for the draw for the knockout stages of the Europa League, Papin denied wanting to succeed Gattuso. “No not at all. I was with my kids and things were going pretty well. The choice of leaders was Jean-Louis Gasset“, confided the 1991 Ballon d’Or to Canal+. However, Papin had had support with a view to becoming the new coach of OM. “I asked myself why not go for an internal solution. It’s still the best in these cases. Since you want a psychological shock, who better than Jean-Pierre Papin? With everything he represents: Golden Ball, former Olympique de Marseille, advisor to Pablo Longoria. If you take him as an advisor it means you have complete confidence in him.“, had notably launched Jérôme Rothen in his show “Rothen s’igname” this Wednesday on RMC. But the leaders of OM therefore made the choice Jean-Louis Gasset and “JPP” is very happy about it, he who occupies the OM reserve.