An article published on TMW to set fire to the powder. The Italian site indicated that the Saudi billionaire, Prince Al-Walid ben Talal wanted to buy the club with a check for 250 M €. Despite a short denial from the McCourt clan in the columns of Provence, rumor continued to swell, and article in Thursday’s Challenges magazine indicated that there had been brief exchanges between the Boston businessman and Prince Al-Walid but that the McCourt clan had politely pushed back this first approach.
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Despite a first denial that had appeared a few days earlier, Jacques-Henri Eyraud remained walled in silence. In the meantime, a thunderclap sounded at the Robert Louis Dreyfus center when the Marseille club announced with loss and crash the departure of its sports director Andoni Zubizarreta. This Friday, rumors evoking a possible arrival of Antero Henrique (denied since), character linked to the possible takeover from Saudi Arabia to replace the Spaniard, came out in several media, French and Italian.
Faced with the annoyance of the supporters, the Marseille president decided to break the silence. Questioned by RMC in the show Rothen treats, Jacques-Henri Eyraud was clear to say the least before the rumor of sale of the Marseille club. To listen to it, there is not the shadow of a hope to see OM be sold. “I don’t know how many times I have denied it, even Frank has denied it.” This is OM, between those who dream at night that we are no longer in the landscape and those who have other interests to convey this type of rumors in these slightly more difficult times, what do you want me to tell you? I say it with great pleasure to your antenna this evening, it is anything it is fake news. (…) The club is not for sale ». This umpteenth denial will it be enough to calm, even extinguish this rumor that has been swelling for more than a week? Answer in the next few hours …
???????? “It’s big no matter what … The club is not for sale”
????⚪ Jacques-Henri Eyraud, president of OM, denounces denounces fake news about a possible takeover of the Marseille club by a member of the Saudi royal family. pic.twitter.com/fy8XQ5xYl6
– Rothen Régale (@RMCRothenRegale) May 15, 2020
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