” The chief investigator of the Club Financial Control Authority (ICFC), after consulting the other members of the independent investigative chamber of the ICFC, decided to refer the cases of the two above-mentioned clubs to the judgment chamber of the ICFC. Olympique de Marseille, currently subject to a settlement agreement, has not respected the conditions set out therein for the 2019/20 season. Lechia Gdańsk did not provide the CFFC’s investigative chamber with the financial balance information required in the 2019/20 season. The news fell like a bomb, last Thursday, UEFA announced that the ICFC had decided to refer the file of the OM for non-respect of the sanctions concerning the financial fair play.
” Olympique de Marseille takes note of the investigation chamber’s decision to forward the club’s file to the judgment chamber of the financial control body. Since the start of the project, OM has never hidden the need to invest massively in the equity of its shareholder to revive the club and once again display high ambitions. The club has now embarked on the second phase of its project, which makes economic sustainability and the return to financial equilibrium an essential objective. To this end, it collaborates fully and transparently with UEFA, and hopes to be treated fairly vis-à-vis other French and European clubs. This decision in no way alters the will of the club and its shareholder to continue building a sporty ambitious and economically sustainable OM “, Replied the Marseille club in the aftermath, not failing to make a small tackle to the court that it would consider a bit impartial.
The Judgment Chamber
The fact that OM’s finances are in the red, everyone knew it, the fact that the Marseille team must have a balance sheet of – maximum – less than thirty million euros by June 30, everyone also knew. We then wondered why the European body hit the Phocaeans so early when they are in the race for a qualification in the Champions League, but also that they have the possibility of yielding one or more elements before the end of the exercise accountant in progress (30/06).
We had a first response within a week since we learned that the OM leaders should have sold an element this winter and that this sale did not take place. But that’s not all. According to Sunday Journal, on this international women’s rights day, the hearing of the leaders of Olympique de Marseille would not have really convinced and it would seem, to the listeners, that the club would not be in the right dynamic to fulfill its objectives. .. The investigators therefore transferred the file to the trial chamber which is much less accommodating while making recommendations which, for the time being, have not filtered.
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