Habib Beye has been appointed coach of Marseille, little over every week after being sacked by their Ligue 1 rivals Rennes. Picture: AFP/File
MARSEILLE:
Marseille have appointed their former captain Habib Beye as coach, the membership introduced on Wednesday, simply over every week after he was sacked by their Ligue 1 rivals Rennes.
Beye, 48, succeeds Roberto De Zerbi after the Italian left the 1993 Champions League winners early final week within the wake of a 5-0 hammering by bitter rivals Paris Saint-Germain.
He takes over a crew which lies fourth in France’s Ligue 1 with 12 video games of the season remaining, 5 factors adrift of Lyon in third and 12 behind leaders Lens.
The highest three qualify robotically for subsequent season’s Champions League, with fourth getting into within the third qualifying spherical.
Beye shall be formally unveiled on Thursday earlier than his first sport in cost on Friday, away to Brest.
Marseille, who had been knocked out of this season’s Champions League on the ultimate day of the league part final month, are additionally by way of to the quarter-finals of the French Cup.
Former Senegal worldwide full-back Beye had been accountable for Rennes for simply over a yr having beforehand been coach of lower-league aspect Pink Star and labored as a outstanding pundit on French tv.
He performed for Marseille from 2003 to 2007, notably that includes alongside Didier Drogba within the crew that misplaced the 2004 UEFA Cup last to Valencia.
Beye, who additionally performed for Strasbourg, completed his profession in England, turning out for Newcastle United and Aston Villa in addition to Doncaster Rovers within the second tier.
“His deep attachment to Olympique de Marseille and his intimate information of the atmosphere in Marseille could be main property in taking the membership to the subsequent step,” mentioned a press release launched by OM, who didn’t reveal the size of Beye’s contract.
The announcement of Beye’s arrival in Marseille got here hours after his severance cope with Rennes was finalised they usually appointed his successor within the form of Franck Haise.
Frenchman Haise signed a contract till 2027 after Beye was dismissed with the Breton outfit sitting in sixth place in Ligue 1.
Haise, 54, guided Lens to the Champions League group stage in 2023/24 after the membership completed runners-up in Ligue 1 the earlier season.
He joined Good in June 2024 however left in December after simply 5 wins from 16 league video games. Haise returns to Brittany after a six-year stint as a coach within the Rennes academy from 2006-12.
“It is a pleasure to return to Rennes, a real pleasure, with my employees, to hitch such an amazing membership,” Haise mentioned in a press release.
