{"id":2332,"date":"2026-04-15T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:09:35","slug":"the-new-president-stephane-richard-no-longer-wants-to-see-half-of-the-workforce-change-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"The new president St\u00e9phane Richard no longer wants to see \u201chalf of the workforce change every year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Appointed last week, the new president of Olympique de Marseille St\u00e9phane Richard has a precise idea of \u200b\u200bhow he wants to proceed at the club, when he is officially in office from July 2. Its key word: stability.<\/p>\n<p>For his first media intervention since his presentation, this Tuesday morning at the microphone of RTL, the new strong man of OM expressed his eagerness to \u201cbe able to write a new page\u201d in the history of the club. A page that he hopes is less messy than under the presidency of Pablo Longoria, whose method he scratched without naming him.<\/p>\n<h2>The file of the future sports director<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere has been too much instability in this club in recent years, between the coaches and the squad itself,\u201d he noted. Football is still a team sport (\u2026), it&#8217;s still very complicated to get a team to play well when you have a third or half of the squad changing every year. It&#8217;s even impossible. I think the first thing this club needs is a certain stability. But, that doesn&#8217;t mean there won&#8217;t be changes, of course. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The priority short-term objective, according to him, is qualification for the Champions League next season by finishing in 3rd place in the championship. And then, OM has \u201cabsolutely everything to be one of the 20 best European clubs in the medium term\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in passing about Bernard Tapie, St\u00e9phane Richard also wanted to distance himself from the style of the former club boss.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To achieve his goals, however, Richard will have to go through a recovery of OM&#8217;s finances, which posted net losses of 105 million euros at the end of last season. \u201cThe more difficulties we have to manage, the greater the pressure, the more calm we must be,\u201d he asserted. I think there are a lot of difficulties ahead of me and the club, that&#8217;s for sure. But, they must be taken in a calm, thoughtful and methodical manner. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>All the news from OM<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the future president will be involved in another hot issue: the recruitment of a new sports director, to take over from Mehdi Benatia from the summer. <span class=\"text-italic\">The Team <\/span>in today&#8217;s edition the names of Gr\u00e9gory Lorenzi (Brest) and Julien Fournier (ex-Nice) are mentioned. But nothing has been done yet, far from it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointed last week, the new president of Olympique de Marseille St\u00e9phane Richard has a precise idea of \u200b\u200bhow he wants to proceed at the club, when he is officially in office from July 2. Its key word: stability. 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