‘I’ve built myself up over time’ – Habib Beye says he is ready for high-pressure Marseille job | OneFootball

It’s been quite the week for both Olympique de Marseille and Habib Beye. The former have rearranged the house of cards leading the club, with OM owner Frank McCourt bringing back the recently-resigned Medhi Benatia and moving Pablo Longoria to the fringes. All the while Beye got himself instantly back in the managerial game, but had to go through a process of litigation with his former club Rennes before being available to join Marseille. The two are now reunited once more, with Beye returning to the club he represented between 2003 and 2007 as a defender and club captain. Yet the circumstances couldn’t be any more urgent for Les Olympiens. The club’s objectives are officially to qualify for next season’s UEFA Champions League, without so would risk OM’s financial health. Secondary to that is an opportunity to clinch the first piece of silverware for 14 years in the Coupe de France.“I’ve built myself over time, I gained my first experience in the third division,” said Beye at his first press conference as Marseille manager attended by Get French Football News. “I took the time to take each step as it came, I don’t have anything to prove to anyone. I’m here because I worked hard.”“I am ready, I don’t consider that the team is sick. It’s a question of form. There is a high quality of work being done here. Of course it’s another step in my career and I have to step up to it, but I have no problem with that. I feel ready for the pressure. Don’t come here if you don’t want to be exposed to that pressure.” GFFN | George Boxall – Reporting from La Commanderie, Marseille