If the sale of Olympique de Marseille still appears inevitable in the eyes of some, the Saudis might not come alone.
Olympique de Marseille has finally returned to victory. After four matches in a row without a victory, the Ciel et Blanc took advantage of the visit to Le Havre on Saturday to achieve a convincing success (3-0). Enough to stave off the crisis and suggest that Gennaro Gattuso, who arrived after Marcelino’s resignation, is the man for the job.
The agitation nevertheless still reigns behind the scenes and foreshadows, for some, the next sale of Olympique de Marseille. For some people familiar with the matter, this sale is on track, with Frank McCourt now determined to sell, nevertheless with the stated objective of recovering the sums invested, i.e. some 600 million euros.
“ What I am guaranteed is that a formalization of the sale is inevitable. My sources all tell me this. I am calm, but no one can know the date,” said again confided the journalist Thibaud Vézirian in a Twitch live. But for those who have been considering the imminent sale for three years now, the situation has changed somewhat: Saudi Arabia might not be alone.
“What I can say very clearly, what is predicted by many sources, is still a sale to the Saudis, but the reality will be the Saudis with CGA-CGM, and perhaps the Indians via a small percentage or a sponsorship with an Indian billionaire”, he clarified, adding that the only last detail to be resolved is resolving the problem with the supporters. “With these meetings between the leaders, we are being given an absurd storytelling, while the objective is to put the groups of supporters behind Pablo Longoria in order to sign a new agreement with them and then bring towards the officialization of which all the world is talking and not just me. At PSG and Lille, it happened like this,” he insisted.
