The sale of Olympique de Marseille gives a boost to the looming Marseille summer, with insistent rumors of a strong interest from Saudi Arabia. The clues are raining in this direction.
With the end of the season leaving a taste of unfinished business, Olympique de Marseille has no choice and is now turning to a hot summer. From the coach to the players, Pablo Longoria must take care of a workforce that will be completely turned upside down. This is not a problem for the president of the Provençal club, who is used to managing this and even likes to try many moves to build a workforce which must be efficient of course, but also financially profitable. For this, Frank McCourt has total confidence in him since the American owner keeps a good distance from OM, even if he follows the sporting and financial performance of the club of course. Impossible for him not to hear once again these hallway noises which indicate a possible sale of the club. Especially since the information in this direction is multiplying, with more and more detail.
An offer that McCourt cannot refuse
First, there is Saudi Arabia’s huge appetite to invest in football. After Newcastle, the Kingdom plans to organize a World Cup, and to bring the best players in the world to its championship. The Spanish press claims that a totally crazy summer is coming, and that it will spend at unprecedented amounts, as the contracts presented to Lionel Messi, Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos demonstrate. The media I24News, a specialist in Middle Eastern news, thus confirms Saudi Arabia’s desire to invest like never before, and to do so in part at OM with an offer capable of making Frank McCourt crack.
A Franco-Indo-Saudi consortium?
Result, the name of OM inevitably returns and Team Football stresses that the company CMA-CGM, often announced as the French candidate for the acquisition of the Provençal club, is in close ties with Saudi Arabia outside the framework of football. This could cause an explosive rapprochement to make it a juggernaut capable of investing massively in the Olympian club. The media even specifies that a third party is interested in this takeover, with Indian shareholders who would allow the creation of an international consortium, and also capable of preventing Saudi Arabia from directly owning several clubs, which which UEFA does not appreciate.
The LFP is waiting for this
Finally, the last positive point for a possible takeover of OM, the reception by the authorities in France would be quite unanimous. Ligue 1 is suffering from a loss of credibility internationally, and the mere influence of PSG does not prevent the lack of consideration for our championship, and the disappointing results, to put it mildly, in the European Cup. Having another bastion as popular as OM makes the League salivate, which thinks of TV rights and its dizzying contract with CVC, which requires increased revenue in return.
