Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso will depart Ligue 1 membership Marseille after the 1-0 defeat in Brest final weekend, a supply near the negotiations informed AFP on Monday.
Gattuso mentioned after Sunday's defeat that Marseille, who’ve now gone six video games with no win, had “hit all-time low”.
In response to a supply near Monday's talks, the Italian admitted he had “run out of options” to revive Marseille's fortunes.
In response to the identical supply, Gattuso's departure is predicted to take the type of a mutual parting of how and never a dismissal.
The 46-year-old arrived in Marseille on the finish of September to interchange Marcelino Garcia Toral, who retired after simply seven aggressive video games in cost.
Nevertheless, he failed to show across the fortunes of a staff that has didn’t win a league match in 2024 and at present sits in ninth place, a great distance from qualifying for European competitors subsequent season.
Other than a slender 1-0 win over fifth-tier Thionville within the French Cup, Marseille haven’t gained since internet hosting Clermont on December 17. They had been subsequently eradicated from the cup by Rennes.
Their solely shiny spot was a 2-2 draw in opposition to Shakhtar Donetsk within the Europa League play-offs with the second leg on the Velodrome on Thursday.
Though the small print of Gattuso's departure have but to be finalized, the membership is already searching for a successor. After a Spaniard and an Italian, the supply mentioned they had been searching for a “man of motion, who may get into the heads of his gamers and needed extra of a Francophile”.
