As the season ends and when rumors are intensifying around the future of the club, OM chose Dallas to house a crucial summit between Pablo Longoria and Frank McCourt. If the Texan City evokes as much the business as the twists and turns worthy of a suspense series, it is here, in the heart of America, that a capital part is played for Marseille. Far from the Olympian looks, leaders and decision-makers have an appointment for much more than a simple assessment: the time is for the strategy, the flatness of the ambitions and the writing of the next chapter of the club. And according to the echoes circulating, certain unpublished details on the economic and sporting future of OM may well emerge after these discussions.
The famous meeting, revealed by RMC Sport this Tuesday, brings together President Pablo Longoria, director of football Medhi Benatia, coach Roberto de Zerbi and owner Frank McCourt. The program: take stock of the first season of the new project, evoke successes, failures, but also – and above all – fix the guideline for the future. The meeting, long scheduled, is not trivial: all key players are present, proof of the importance given to this Texan summit, far from the Marseille tumult.
Dallas, theater of the future Olympian: What does McCourt and Longoria simmer?
This choice of Dallas is not only geographic: it carries a strong symbolic load. City of oil, business, but also historic deals, Dallas appears to be the ideal theater to clarify the intentions of the American owner. At the negotiating table, all blows are allowed and each word weighs. The Marseille club, with its second place in Ligue 1, intends to capitalize on this momentum to accelerate its development … But everything will depend on the means and the vision validated during this meeting.
OM: Dallas, theater of the future Olympian
Over the course of exchanges, each protagonist will have to defend his ideas: strengthening of the workforce, ambitions on the European scene, management of hot transfer windows, but also clarification of everyone's place in the new organization chart. Benatia and Zerbi, newcomers to the project, will have the opportunity to express themselves directly before the shareholder, a rare and precious thing in the club's recent history.
The Dallas meeting therefore promises to be a strategic turning point for OM. At the end of this Texan stay, Marseille will be able to dream of greater or compose with new constraints. For Longoria and its men, the issue is clear: transforming this meeting into an opportunity and offering OM a horizon as ambitious as it was.
