Eric Chelle, who still has a year left on his Super Eagles contract, has said his new agents proposed him to Olympique Marseille, but he did not have any personal contact with the leadership of the French Ligue 1 club.
He told Histoires de foot Podcast : “In fact, what happened is that I signed with a sports agency…in order to grow as a coach. So my agents decided, like all agents, to probe certain clubs in Europe, and especially in France.
“Yeah. At that moment, OM is looking for a coach. So my agency got in touch with the club to, I think, propose me. And then after, well, I… and my agent, we didn’t do anything else.
“Now, shortlist, not shortlist, rumour by rumour, but me, no, I had no contact.
“Then you have to ask my agent if he was in contact and what position I was in this list, if I was in this list. But I didn’t do anything, I didn’t say anything. I didn’t communicate by saying that I was in contact.
“Now, it’s true that, as I’m from here, from the region, when I talk with two or three friends, friends who ask me, “Yeah, Eric, we see you’re in Marseille, would you like to come to Marseille?”
“Well, as a former supporter of Olympique de Marseille, because I played a few games in this stadium with the ultras, it’s true that if you ask me the question, I say yes, I would like to coach OM. So, of course. Now, no, in no case did I communicate about it, in no case did I ask to be communicated about it.
“I had no contact with OM, and that’s it.
“My new agency simply did its job, and afterwards, I don’t really know what happened.”
