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The truths of Leonardo Jardim on his departure from AS Monaco

Leonardo Jardim’s story and the end of his career at AS Monaco are full of flavor. Unknown to the general public upon his arrival on the Rock in 2014, the Portuguese was able to put ASM on the top of Ligue 1 and take it to the Champions League semi-final during this fabulous 2016/2017 season. An excellent result somewhat tarnished by his last surreal months at the head of the princely club. Sacked in October 2018, Jardim seemed to have reached the end of his asemist cycle, with a group completely wrung out. Replaced by Thierry Henry, the Lusitanian technician was finally recalled to the Monaco bedside in January 2019 before being thanked a second time a little less than a year later.

A scenario rarely seen in a club of such standing, but that the current Monegasque vice-president Oleg Petrov indicated not to regret, and this, despite the logical criticisms of the asemist management since Jardim therefore left the club with two checks of more than € 7 million in just over a year. A few days after his ouster (and his replacement by the Spaniard Roberto Moreno), the former Sporting Portugal coach chose to break the silence in an interview with The Team. An interview during which his attachment to ASM owner Dmitri Rybolovlev is very palpable. What you can’t really say with Petrov. “Honestly, on my side, I never felt that I was his coach. In his eyes, I have always been the coach of the president and perhaps Vadim (Vasilyev) before. The decision that was made is a bit of a consequence of that. “

Jardim had threatened to leave last summer

Aware that his relations with the new management weighed on the (second) end of his love affair with Monaco, Jardim reveals however that he threatened to leave the Rock in mid-August, at the time when his team vegetated in the red zone of the classification and that no significant reinforcement had arrived. “The club’s response, that of Mr. Dimitri, I think, was no:” We know that the team needs more players, and by the end of the month we will try to recruit the two or three players you want. It was then that Bakayoko, Slimani, Maripan arrived to balance the workforce. “ This paid pressure stroke then allowed Wissam Ben Yedder’s team to move up the rankings and reach seventh place in the break, just five points off the podium.

However, rumors of Petrov’s desire to fire Jardim have never stopped. Even after the asemist demonstration in the last match of 2019 against LOSC (5-1 victory). Besides, Jardim admits that after this result, he did not really expect to start the year 2020 unemployed, even if he admits that he feels at that time “Something is going on” that he cannot control. In the end, the cleaver will fall just after Christmas. “After Christmas, Oleg called me to meet me. At that point, yes, I’m almost sure what’s going to happen. (…) He only told me that it was at his request that the president had made this decision. “ Finally dismissed, Jardim left with a slightly lighter heart than in 2018 because he leaves an ASM far from the relegation zone. He is now waiting to be able to speak to Mr. Rybolovlev to turn the page in Monaco, not without having made a final correction on the two checks he cashed. Two checks for which the amounts mentioned “Are not accurate” and that he has ” costs less “ than other coaches who have passed through Turbie.

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