In some ways, Bill might be better off on loan in the obscurity of Strasbourg's reserve side.
The wheels are falling off the Marseilles club with bad coaching from Michel, inept and apathetic owners and a mediocre playing squad.
Manager Michel's days are numbered - reports have the club wanting to replace him at season's end and apparently they have approached Chilean national team manager Sampaoli. A new manager (and Sampaoli is still in regular contact with his and Bill's mentor Bielsa) could bring new chances for Bill:
http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2016/marseill...
The fans have turned on the players with a recent riot and attempted pitch invasion at the Velodrome and players having to be smuggled out of the stadium after games amid flying bottles.
No home wins since September 13 and currently twelfth on the table (it's tight in the bottom half with Marseilles only six points above the third-to-bottom side). No wins in their last seven league games (2 losses, five draws) Eight wins from 31 league games this season (a club record 15 draws so far). Seven league games remaining.
http://offsiderulepodcast.com/2016/03/22/ligue-1-m...
"Sixteen games played, two wins, nine draws and five defeats. Only bottom of the table Troyes have a worse home record and things were brought to a head on Friday night when they lost 5-2 to Rennes.
If Marseille had struggled for the rest of the season it would be easy to pinpoint obvious problems, but in complete contrast they have the fourth best away record in Ligue 1.
They have still drawn six games, too much for a team pushing for European football, but they have only lost three times.
You have to go back to the summer to find the root of the problem. Andre-Pierre Gignac, Dimitri Payet, Giannelli Imbula and Andre Ayew all left the club – stripping OM of experience and stand out quality. The players that came in had potential, but with the exception of former Chelsea and Arsenal man Lassana Diarra they are all young and inexperienced.
When you have 70,000 fans demanding success and expecting results, when it goes sour the Velodrome will let you know.
Defeats to Angers and Nice were huge blows, but greeted with as much disgust were the draws with Gazelec, Guingamp and Lille. It’s wasn’t just the draws, but the insipid performances given by Michel’s men that so riled the fans.
Friday’s game exemplified all the on-field problems inside 90 minutes.
The defence has been all over the place at times: poor communication, discipline and a lack of togetherness makes it easy to pull apart, all too often relying on heroics from goalkeeper Steve Mandanda to keep them in the game....
...It’s safe to say that a lot of the players just aren’t good enough to play at the level Marseille – or, at least, their fans – are striving for, but poor coaching hasn’t helped. However, Michel is not where the problem starts.
You have to look further up the ladder, to the President Labrune and club owner Margarita Louis-Dreyfus. The latter doesn’t want to own the club and won’t back the project with her own money, but you can’t blame her when the man making the decisions – Labrune – has made mistake after mistake.
Marseille are rotten to the core. If this great club wants to build a successful team on the pitch, they need to rebuild in the boardroom. Without new ownership, a new president and perhaps a new board in place, any changes on the field are just patching up the cracks.
The Stade Velodrome is now one of the most spectacular stadiums in Europe, but sadly the team that plays there has been built on crumbling foundations."