om | Marcelo Bielsa claims three million euros from OM from the prud’hommes

By La Provence (with AFP)

Argentinian coach Marcelo Bielsa is claiming three million euros from Olympique de Marseille (OM), a membership from which he resigned in August 2015, his legal professionals defined this Friday earlier than the Marseille industrial tribunal, which should render its choice on January 27. After a primary season on the head of OM that ended solely in 4th place however which had made him the idol of Marseille supporters, the Argentinian technician left the membership to everybody’s shock on August 8, 2015, simply after the primary recreation of the 2015-2016 season.

Bielsa had defined his choice by a disagreement between him and the administration of the membership round his contract. On Friday, his legal professionals, My Benjamin Cabagno and Arnaud Ibanez, denounced “a fault” and an “unfair technique” of OM within the administration of his employment contract. In query, based on the representatives of the coach, the non-respect of an settlement with the president of the membership Vincent Labrune regarding a 25% improve within the wage of Marcelo Bielsa between the primary and second season.

The membership, then represented by the overall supervisor Philippe Perez and the lawyer of the bulk shareholder on the time, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, would have rejected the rise in month-to-month remuneration web of tax of 185,000 euros on the final second, resulting in the departure of the Argentine coach nicknamed “El Loco”.

“OM tousled the system a bit“, summed up the protection of the coach, who’s claiming compensation for salaries elevated by 25% for the 2015/2016 season, i.e. 2,775,000 euros, ethical harm amounting to twenty,000 euros and harm to his picture and notoriety of 180,000 euros, not together with the settlement of a tax dispute.”For most people, he’s accountable. By resigning in the course of the season, he took it on his face“, declared Mr. Cabagno to justify the request for compensation for the harm to the picture.

OM for its half requested the commercial tribunal to dismiss its former coach of all his requests, the process, initiated solely in 2019, being thought-about largely prescribed by Me Cristel Schwing, lawyer for the membership. “Negotiations between President Vincent Labrune, who would have agreed to a 25% wage improve, and Marcelo Bielsa don’t commit the Board of Administrators“, she additionally estimated.

The choice might be made on January 27.