Guest of RMC, Mourad Boudjellal wanted to put things right concerning the offer to buy Olympique de Marseille that he will send this week to Frank McCourt.
As had been announced, after a first media outing this weekend, Mourad Boudjellal came back to the table on Monday. On the airwaves of RMC, where he was a consultant, the former boss of RC Toulon was asked about certain details of the takeover offer which will materialize this week by a letter of intent sent to Frank McCourt, the current American owner of Olympique de Marseille. Mourad Boudjellal notably confided that this takeover would be able to allow the Marseille club to benefit from financial means superior to those which there are currently. ” I do not know precisely the financial means of McCourt, but the people with whom I discuss and who want to invest in OM have financial means superior to those of McCourt “Said the former manager of the rugby club. And the former leader of the RCT to respond directly to the words of Jacques-Henri Eyraud, who announced Saturday that OM was not for sale. ” Without disrespecting President Eyraud, if my investors were to buy OM, the check will not be made payable to Eyraud. Was Mr. Eyraud’s statement on Saturday signed by Mr. McCourt? “Quipped the candidate for the Marseille buyout.
Regarding Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi, who confirmed on a Tunisian radio that he was the author of this offer to buy Olympique de Marseille, Mourad Boudjellal wanted to be reassuring at a time when some relativize his real financial power and his influence. ” I met him several times and I saw how he lived, a priori it is fine for him. Last Thursday, we had dinner in large numbers in a semi-privatized hotel Georges V in Paris, and I was not presented with the bill, a priori it’s a good sign. We knew we were going to be attacked, but I have total confidence in Mr. Ajroudi, in his network of people around the project. Even if there are foreign funds, there will be no easement to these foreign funds, that’s all “Said Mourad Boudjellal, who also added that if the sale of OM is to be made, it will take a few months before this materializes, two other offers are also in the pipeline.
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