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Marcelino shocked by Marseille treatment: Angry, disappointed and sad

Marcelino has revisited his departure from Olympique Marseille.

The former Valencia and Athletic Bilbao coach was forced to leave OM last month due to pressure from ultras.

Marcelino recalled: “Very angry, disappointed and sad. We had put all our enthusiasm into developing a very attractive project in a great club. In any case, we thought it was a great club in every sense of the word, but these deplorable events show that it is not as great a club as we would like.

“Some radical fans who want to constantly influence events are preventing it from being a great club.

“I spent twenty years as a coach, and almost twenty as a professional player before that, and I had never seen anything like it in my life. And I don't think I'll ever see him again. At least I hope so. It is a way of doing things that is very far from what should be reality in 2023 in a civilized country.

“Football is passion, okay, but there are limits."

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