11:12 a.m.
, May 13, 2020
Qualified for the Champions League after the official stoppage of Ligue 1, Olympique de Marseille reopened the news without playing. There are many questions between the insistent rumors of a club sale to a Saudi investor, certainly vigorously denied by those around Frank McCourt, and those of a reshuffle of the current management. Former Manchester City executive director (2008-2012) Garry Cook has been presented in recent days as a possible replacement for Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
The Englishman, 62, was actually under contract with the McCourt group and advised the Boston boss. However, his mission to the American group will end at the end of May. The information was confirmed to the JDD by the entourage of the owner of the OM.
Several fronts at OM
Difficult to interpret this departure when the club is already on several fronts, between coach André Villas-Boas who has put the pressure back on these last days to have a competitive workforce next season for the return to C1 after a long parenthesis since 2013-2014, and leaves a doubt about its future in the opposite case; complicated negotiations between the management and the players to reduce expenses in the very tense economic context of the stoppage of the championship; and a transfer window to invent without great resources, financial fair play requires.
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