Second in the four -day championship from the verdict, OM, however, has no assurance to compete in the next edition of the Champions League. Behind PSG, competition is rough for the allocation of the two other direct accessits for Grande Europe. Except for a new season without the economic guarantees of the C1 for the Phocaeans would simply be catastrophic.
“” Without TV rights and without the Champions League, with the wages and expenses of the club, I was explained that it would be very complicated. It is an assumed bet, a risk taking of decision -makers. It is fundamental for OM to be in the Champions League. There will be nothing normal without C1 », Souffle last weekend in the pages of Provence Medhi Benatia, the Olympian sports director.
Last season, with a wage bill bordering on the 150 million euros and despite the mattress provided by the controversial deal between the LFP and the CVC Capital Partners fund-without forgetting the good continental journey of Jean-Louis Gasset's men (semi-finals of the Europa League)-the Marseillais completed their exercise with a passive of 39 million euros. A deficit filled by the owner Frank McCourt. However, the American seems to lose patience.
McCourt present like never before in Marseille
This season, according to L'Equipe, it is no less than 80 million euros that will have to be moped if OM does not sell by June 30. Chosen by the Louis-Dreyfus family in 2016, Frank McCourt as always will assume, he who has already invested more than 550 million euros in the club. But the noose tightens. This is evidenced by his presence in the stands at the Vélodrome Sunday for the championship match against Brest, three weeks after his visit to attend the debates against the TFC. A sign that does not deceive.
The main shareholder of OM certainly is worried. Because the charges keep growing and the field of recipes more than ever in Ligue 1 is uncertain. Without Champions League in Marseille one more year, the business plan will have to be reviewed. And the question of the commitment of the Boston patron will arise again. Inevitably.
