Apart from the traditional Saudi rumors, Rodolphe Saadé has been insistently announced in recent weeks as a credible potential buyer of OM in the event of a sale by Frank McCourt.
The boss of the Marseille group CMA CGM, the next official sponsor of the Olympique de Marseille jersey, is regularly announced as a potential buyer in the event of the sale of the club by Frank McCourt in the coming weeks. Rodolphe Saadé has a very large financial base and his local presence would have enabled him to establish numerous partnerships and raise the funds necessary for such an operation.
Romain Molina confirms on the Space of @ByanNassr that McCourt asks too much from Saudi Arabia in the context of an OM Sale pic.twitter.com/nT765eiHRe
— khal 🔵⚪️🇹🇳 (@khal4ever) June 12, 2023
But a priori, the takeover of OM by CMA CGM will never see the light of day. According to information from Daniel Riolo, who spoke with one of Jacques Saadé’s right-hand men, father of Rodolphe Saadé, there is no chance that the maritime group based in Marseille will submit an offer to buy the club to Frank McCourt. And this neither in the medium nor in the longer term.
CMA CGM has little chance of buying OM
“I spoke a few months ago about a possible takeover of OM by the CMA CGM and I received a call last week from one of the right arms of Jacques Saadé (president of the CMA CGM, editor’s note ) who told me I could stop talking about it because it will never happen” launched the RMC journalist in After Foot before concluding.
A takeover recorded in Marseille: the Via Roma de la Vieille-Chapelle (8th) becomes the Calanquais. What do the Saudis think? They will be welcome at JP, at the helm of this new adventure. #SaleOM pic.twitter.com/xklfOMes2u
— Nabil Djellit (@Nabil_djellit) June 12, 2023
“He told me he would never buy OM. (…) You have all seen that the famous hashtag #venteOM has taken off again on social networks. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand some people may believe that if we had any information we wouldn’t talk about it” revealed Daniel Riolo, for whom the takeover of Olympique de Marseille by CMA CGM should therefore be forgotten forever. This does not mean that Frank McCourt does not have other buyers knocking on the door even if for the time being, the American businessman has never officially expressed his desire to sell his club. . But the track of a takeover of French origin for OM is in any case to be forgotten, whereas apart from rumors and the appearance of the group on the Provencal club jersey, there has never been much concrete in this direction.
