For those who think that the sale of Olympique de Marseille will happen soon, you have to have a strong heart. A relatively incredible scenario has come out of the drawers in recent days, postponing Frank McCourt’s departure to the end of the year.
Netflix has already devoted a series, moreover very average, to Marseille, but the VOD platform will be able to make a new one solely devoted to the supposed sale of Olympique de Marseille. While the track leading to CGA CGM was shattered, the Saudis would now be alone in the running to take over the club from Frank McCourt. However, the American businessman has repeatedly said and repeated that he did not want to sell OM, and that all these rumors about the sale were false. Still, many believe McCourt is bluffing, and this week a brilliant but highly convoluted theory emerged from the social media where some sleuths hang out.
McCourt wants parking lots and more OM
Because an administrative event was noticed on the Marseille side, namely that on June 24, the Marseille city launched a call for tenders for the management and operation of Parc Chanot for 3 years from January 1, 2024. Interested companies have until August 1st to make themselves known. In Marseille, the Parc Chanot is known for being an exhibition center, but also and even above all the closest and largest car park to park when there are matches at the Vélodrome. So inevitably, the relationship with Frank McCourt was quickly made, because the American is a specialist in the genre.
Frank McCourt categorically denies the false and harmful rumors about the sale of OM.
– Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) February 5, 2021
Thus, before buying OM from Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, McCourt was often considered the king of paid parking. It was thanks to the proceeds from a gigantic parking lot in Boston that he bought the Dodgers, and even when he was forced to sell the baseball club, he retained management of the parking lot he had developed around the Los Angeles stadium. Which brings him more than 13 million euros a year. So, for some supporters, it is clear that Frank McCourt will apply for this Parc Chanot contract and then he will sell Olympique de Marseille, in order to take cash thanks to this wonderfully well-placed car park. According to Team Football, the site where Thibaud Vézirian collaborates, McCourt has already sent a file to the town hall of Marseille as part of the call for tenders. If he obtained the management of Parc Chanot, then he would be more sensitive to offers from Saudi Arabia or elsewhere. Why not.
