While rumors surrounding the sale of Olympique de Marseille have started again in recent days, the Saudi camp is much more reserved.
For some, it would only be a matter of weeks. To believe the Sports Daily, Frank McCourt would like the sale of Olympique de Marseille to Saudi Arabia to be finalized before the end of the year. And for France Bleu Provence, would there be confidence on the Saudi side that the future owners of Ciel et Blanc have already come to an agreement with Zinedine Zidane, with the promise of a transfer package of some 300 million euros.
This information obviously made Marseille supporters salivate. But according to journalist Bastien Boris, correspondent in Dubai for the i24News channel, the file for the sale of Olympique de Marseille is clearly not that advanced. “Msources in Saudi Arabia and in particular within the Saudi Public Investment Fund, the famous PIF, sources who were also passing through the Emirates this weekend and with whom I was able to sit down for the time of a café, deny what was announced by this journalist who said that Zidane had given his agreement in the event of the club being bought by Riyadh »he confided.
And the journalist based in the Emirates, who himself had relaunched the saga of the sale at the beginning of the summer, to openly doubt the information revealed by France Bleu Provence. “ He also spoke of an envelope of €300 million that the Saudis would have promised him to recruit players and make Marseille a top European team… Well, we shouldn’t rule out anything, but we would have liked this journalist to identify his sources, not necessarily by naming them or by “dismissing” them but that he supports his arguments, he lamented. If he has information, fine, but once again what he said has been denied by two of my sources: one who works within the PIF and the other who is close to SRJ Sports Investments, which is basically the branch of this Saudi investment fund specifically responsible for developing sport in Saudi Arabia. »
