While Olympique de Marseille is shaken by violent turmoil behind the scenes, Frank McCourt seems ready to part ways with the club in the event of a good offer.
Olympique de Marseille is in crisis. If, failing to play well, the Ciel et Blanc are in third place in Ligue 1 and began their Europa League campaign with a meritorious draw at Ajax Amsterdam (3-3), OM have in fact saw its coach resign and its leaders withdraw following threats received from representatives of supporter groups on Monday.
Vagueness reigns above the Marseille club. If Pablo Longoria suggested that he did not intend to resign and if Frank McCourt gave him full and unconditional support, the Marseille president will only remain at the head of OM in the event of profound changes. “ In current conditions, it is impossible to work,” he said in Provence.
But according to the club’s followers, a bigger change could come in the coming months: Frank McCourt is indeed ready to sell OM. Rumors surrounding a sale of the club have not stopped in recent months. And, on Wednesday, Romain Molina did it again. “You have people, behind the scenes, a former sports director of a French club, who says he has a sales mandate, from the Gulf and other people, there are people who want to buy OM. McCourt has demands that are just unachievable. That means hundreds of millions of euros, more than half a billion,” he said in a YouTube video, adding: “In the middle of all this, you have an owner, he is never there, we say to him: ‘you do that’ he says ‘yes’. He was promised to sell OM for hundreds and hundreds of millions of euros. Beyond half a billion. Yes, yes of course, €600-700M even, of course. He’s convinced of that, so his goal is to get the jackpot by telling him that he’s going to make a lot of money.”
And this information is this time confirmed by The Team. According to the sports daily, Julien Fournier, former secretary general of OM and above all former sports director of OGC Nice, approached Frank McCourt last June to discuss the interest of Saudi buyers. But the latter were quickly cooled by the pretensions of the American businessman, who in fact demanded “Pharaonic amounts. »
