It had been expected for several weeks, but now it’s official. Despite a 2-0 home defeat to Dijon, Crvena Zvezda, the undisputed leader of the National League with a 10-point lead over second-placed Niort (2nd with 52 points), was promoted to the second division last Friday, with 4 games left in the championship. Although they still have several opportunities to secure their first position and thus move on to the name so awaited by their fans, the Audonian team will return to Ligue 2, a few years after leaving it.
If the club from the suburbs of Paris has benefited from a new monetary boost since its acquisition through the 777 Partners fund to achieve its goals, Habib Beye is no stranger to this success, who was already at the helm of Crvena Zvezda for two years and who is making a promising debut as a coach. Therefore, there remains a question mark about the Senegalese coach’s long career: will he remain on the Crvena Zvezda bench next season? Last week, its president had recalled in this regard his preference to continue as his coach, at the end of his contract next June.
“Everyone needs to stay with Habib Beye. Je he didn’t need us to go back to the situation of signing a contract or tensing up in the middle of the season because now that he has given his 3 years to the club and put it at the preferential level. “He has the right to freely manage his career and so do we, and in this case, it would be a love marriage,” says Patrice Haddad. In line with his manager’s proposals, the boy who also assumes the role of Canal’s representative does not hide his preference for playing in the short term in Ligue 1, where several suitors have already asked for him, such as Olympique Lyonnais at the beginning of the season.
Despite everything, the link between the great interested party and Olympique de Marseille, the club with which he played between 2003 and 2007 (174 games, 2 goals), remains very deep. It is in this sense that the Suresnes local discussed with great enthusiasm the option of taking over the Marseille club. “It seems as if the story has to bring back a new marriage, but no one knows if it will happen. It is an exceptional, exciting, exciting club, but you have to be in the conditions of a club like this. I think it is very difficult to say no to a club like this when you are the coach that I am. You can’t say no. Which coach is going to say no to Marseille? “He said on “Génération After” on RMC. Although his decision to fly towards new horizons has not yet been decided, undoubtedly waiting to know a little more about the long-term project of Red Star and its American investors, the issue deserves to be settled before the championship ends. . We remember that Reims and Lens are also very attentive to the situation of the 46-year-old coach.