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Friday, Mourad Boudjellal announced his involvement in a pharaonic project for a possible takeover of OM with funds from the Middle East. However, several gray areas hover over this interest.
It is no longer a secret since this Friday, Mourad Boudjellal is carrying out a purchase project supported by funds from the Middle East for theOlympic Marseille. The former president of the rugby club of Toulon multiplies the interviews for a little more than 24 hours to affirm its determination and those of the buyers supposed in this file, who would be ready to invest the colossal sum of 700M € for the club. € 300m could be used to convince Frank McCourt to let go ofIF, € 200 million to pay off debts and € 200 million for the transfer window. “ When you aspire to make an offer to buy and manage OM, you must have the means “Says Boudjellal this Saturday in the columns of The team. Asked a little later by France Info, the Varois said he was confident about the outcome of this case, especially since he has ” nothing to lose ».
The big blur around Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi and his offer
The day before, Mourad Boudjellal dropped his bomb explaining that the offer came from funds ” state and private “From the Middle East from” oil, water, energy “, And worn by a Tunisian businessman” Very important ” Behind this interest would hide more precisely Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi, today the head of several international companies, as explained Provence, but this intermediary has caused a lot of reaction since his identity was revealed by Le Figaro. « When some say that he arrives with Saudi funds, I inquired, it’s phony. It’s not a scam yet, but it’s bluff. It has nothing to do with MBS (Mohammed bel Salmane, the prince of Saudi Arabia). He’s someone who makes up a story, a lot. It is not at all in the little papers of Saudi Arabia “Explains the journalist Thibaud Vézirian, very active on this sales fileOlympic Marseille. Questioned by Challenges Friday, a French businessman also ensures thatAjroudi is not involved in the affairs of the Saudi royal family: ” Its networks are mainly linked to the former king (Abdallah ben Abdelaziz al Saoud, disappeared in 2015). Ajroudi is not in court with Mohammed ben Salmane. “What to wonder about the source of the 700M € mentioned for the takeover of the Marseille club as this same source points out:” For such a sum to leave Saudi Arabia today, it must be validated by the government. However, the Saudis, via their sovereign wealth fund (PIF), are in discussions to buy Newcastle. The authorities are very unlikely to validate two simultaneous takeovers. To carry out such an operation, one must be in the small papers of ‘MBS’ and of power. However, this is not the case with Ajroudi ” In addition, someone close to the bank Rothschild ensures that there is “ strictly nothing “, While it would have been mandated for this sale according to several media, even if Mourad Boudjellal did not want to confirm the involvement of the merchant bank this Saturday in remarks granted to the Phocaean.
OM denies, as Boudjellal had planned
A big uncertainty reigns therefore, while for its part, theIF continues to deny as a whole a future sale. After an initial club announcement at Challenges Friday night, Jacques-Henri Eyraud gave a layer of it at a press conference this Saturday: The heart of the matter is not what I have read in the press about this umpteenth rumor of the sale of OM. I thank all the people who have an interest, including financial for OM. We are not interested in the sale of OM, OM is not for sale ” An answer that was expected anyway Mourad Boudjellal, interviewed a few minutes before by The Phocaean : « I imagine they will say that the club is not for sale. I know that President Eyraud has my cellphone, but since yesterday or the day before yesterday I have not turned on the number he has, because it rang so much, it was unlivable ” The exit of Jacques-Henri Eyraud therefore should not have upset the former president of the RCT, unlike supporters ofIF who have been fantasizing for several months about the arrival of an investor up to their ambitions. To believe Boudjellal, a concrete offer will be made to Frank McCourt next week, the opportunity to learn more about this pharaonic project that is as much a dream as a doubt.
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