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Marseille's season is in danger of spiraling after the departure of Roberto Dizabi.

So why did his spell come to an end so suddenly and also what is next for the Italian head coach?

Joining us for this one, we've got Tom Williams, part of our totally football show,

European football team and also our tactics writer Liam Tharmer's well.

All right, Tom, let's get into this.

It's been a chaotic week at Marseille, hasn't it?

Dizzerbi is gone.

And also, at the time of recording,

sporting director Medi Benatia is now set to stay

until the end of the season,

despite announcing his departure from the club on Sunday.

How do we even start with this one?

Break it down, Tom.

I mean, here we are again.

This is the modern existence of Olympique de Marseille. You know, just when you think that

you're heading towards a period of stability, things have a capacity to just blow up in everyone's

faces. And that's exactly what has happened. And a key feature of the last couple of years has been a desire to bring some stability to this notoriously, fundamentally unstable club.

And that stability was represented by this triumvirate formed by Pablo Longoria, the president,

Medi Benatia, the sporting director and Roberto de Zerbi, the head coach, who were all said

to be in lockstep and always all looked very pally whenever they were captured on camera together.

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