Setting OM sale is a reality since the first offers begin to fall. The Marseille club interests Saudi Arabia and a Russian oligarch, very close to the president Vladimir Poutine. Like the Saudis, this man with an identity not yet revealed has already made a proposal for the acquisition of Olympique de Marseille. This information fell while the president of Olympique de Marseille Jacques-Henri Eyraud continues to deny a sale of the club.
OM sale: the opponents on the file
Olympique de Marseille is on sale and the words of its president Jacques-Henri Eyraud will not be enough to make people believe the opposite. The latter confided when announcing the extension of Dimitri Payet’s contract: “I always thank people who have an interest, including financial, for OM but we are not interested”. The Marseille captain has indeed agreed to halve his salary until June 2021. Despite the denial of the Marseilles leader on the sale of the club, Georges Malbrunot, the very serious great reporter of the newspaper Le Figaro, made a significant revelation. According to him, the sale of OM is a reality since different staffs, mainly wealthy Saudis, are working to make offers. The journalist said on France Info that “these are countries that are Golf, monarchies, and which are especially since 2017 the enemies of Qatar (holder of the PSG)” who are interested in the Marseille club. Continuing, the journalist reveals: “yesterday I saw an intermediary for this case (the sale of Olympique de Marseille) and the people in the entourage of Mourad Boudjellal who have interests in particular Saudi”.
The entire Middle East wants to buy Olympique de Marseille
The journalist, a great connoisseur of the Middle East, to explain that the idea that Qatar, through PSG, only offers itself a large advertising window with Ligue 1, is unbearable for them. They therefore want to come to France, to the Marseille Olympics, to impose a fierce rivalry on Qatar. The profile of Olympique de Marseille interests these wealthy people as the current owners of Paris Saint-Germain. “There is really a desire, and it was announced to me like that, to compete with Qatar on the soccer field in France by targeting precisely this club of Olympique de Marseille”, he said on Francetvinfo.
Qatar was very interested in OM, not PSG
We learn from the secrets of journalist Georges Malbrunot, in reference to his first book written with Christian Chesnot: “Qatar itself, at the end of the 90s, was interested in Olympique de Marseille”. It is a French industrialist close to the Al-Thani family who would have advised against the Marseille club to the current bosses of Paris Saint-Germain. This shows how OM is of interest to the countries in this area, which would identify with the city where they dream of building a Mediterranean project. And for this OM sale, the former boss of the Toulon Rugby Club Mourad Boudjellal is carrying an offer. He wants to come to the head of Olympique de Marseille with “Funds (…), state and private, which come from oil, water, energy”, a formula carefully chosen by his lawyers. The journalist will argue that Emmanuel Macron, a big supporter of the Marseille team, is not against the arrival of wealthy Saudis at the head of the team. In his time, Nicolas Sarkozy who supported PSG, had privileged his friends of Qatar.
Bernard Tapie validates the track of Mourad Boudjellal (Saudi Arabia)
Mourad Boudjellal has already proven himself in France in his management of a football club. For Bernard Tapie, it is a man like him that you need to head OM. The former Marseille president explained to Nice Matin that “we need a taulier and he (Mourad Boudjellal, editor’s note) is of this caliber.” Take my word for it, it will do. We can not say that it is a stranger in the region. He has demonstrated his skills in running a sports club. Frankly, that would not be bad news… ”According to BFMtv, the French businessman would have submitted an offer to buy OM.
A Russian track for the acquisition of OM
Even if Mourad Boudjellal is obviously very interested in the acquisition of OM, he has competition. “A Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin” also “made an offer to buy OM two weeks ago”. However, since the latter has problems in the USA, “an investigation has been launched into the reliability of this oligarch”. In reality, his accounts “were frozen in the United States. “, According to a Twitter from Georges Malbrunot.
By Gary SLM
Posted on June 27, 2020 at 7:07 PM | updated on June 27, 2020 at 19:07
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