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Marseille are meant to be the third team in France behind the financially-doped pair of Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco, but they face their first season without European football in a decade after finishing sixth in 2013/2014. A collapse in the toughest Champions League group last year saw them finish in last place without picking up a single point, costing Elie Baup his job while caretaker Jose Anigo didn’t fare much better over the rest of the season. The cash injection that has artificially turned PSG and Monaco into superclubs left Marseille with two options: they could continue as they were and hope they had assembled a squad strong and consistent enough to compete or they could gamble on a project. That they ultimately failed to do the former last season has alleviated a lot of the risk from the latter and they have now taken a punt on Marcelo Bielsa – a coach who, like Zdenek Zeman, creates very watchable attacking teams, but possibly isn’t the man you would want in charge of your own team. The Argentine brought his new players back to pre-season early to get them settled into his new system, but he wasn’t the only new […]
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