{"id":473823,"date":"2026-02-11T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:09:08","slug":"marseille-reject-medhi-benatias-resignation-as-director-ot-football-after-roberto-de-zerbis-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473823\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille reject Medhi Benatia\u2019s resignation as Director ot Football after Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympique de Marseille <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2026\/marseille-sporting-director-medhi-benatia-could-depart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Director of Football Medhi Benatia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Director of Football Medhi Benatia<\/a> has handed in his resignation the day of Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s exit as Les Phoc\u00e9ens\u2019\u00a0head coach,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/football\/clubs\/olympique-marseille\/info-rmc-sport-om-apres-le-depart-de-de-zerbi-benatia-a-propose-sa-demission-immediatement-refusee_AV-202602110990.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RMC Sport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RMC Sport<\/a>\u00a0understands. On Tuesday, the Italian manager was relieved of his duties in the aftermath of Sunday\u2019s 5-0 thrashing against Ligue 1 arch-rivals PSG.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet understands that Benatia felt that De Zerbi alone should not bear the responsability for Marseille\u2019s current predicament, with the club also out of the Champions League after back-to-back 3-0 losses against Liverpool and Club Brugge. The former Morocco international centre-back also wished to stand in solidarity with De Zerbi and shoulder his responsability as head of Marseille\u2019s sporting department.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The outlet adds that Marseille\u2019s owner \u2013 American businessman Franck McCourt \u2013 and the club\u2019s president Pablo Longoria have rejected Benatia\u2019s resignation. The former Bayern Munich defender\u2019s decision to resign comes as no surprise as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2026\/at-marseille-its-hard-to-project-yourself-medhi-benatia-on-future-after-trophee-des-champions-defeat\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjsqIGExNKSAxW5UqQEHRdhByIQFnoECB4QAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw0wAtXUhrHuxlREdRZ5BsoB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he alluded to a departure last month;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he alluded to a departure last month<\/a>. But for the time being, Benatia remains Marseille\u2019s Director of Football.<\/p>\n<p>GFFN | Bastien Cheval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympique de Marseille Director of Football Medhi Benatia has handed in his resignation the day of Roberto De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,22706,49831,596,241613,106795,121267,59645,241612,85],"class_list":["post-473823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bayern-munich","tag-director-of-football","tag-football","tag-medhi-benatia","tag-olympique-de-marseille","tag-psg","tag-resignation","tag-roberto-de-zerbi","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}