While the club is going through a major crisis, the sale of Olympique de Marseille would only be a matter of weeks.
Olympique de Marseille is in crisis. Behind the scenes and on the field. And if the arrival of Gennaro Gattuso should make it possible to revive a team in dire straits after the correction received at the Parc des Princes against the hated rival, the absence of Frank McCourt raises questions. Although he certainly issued a press release to give his full support to Pablo Longoria, the owner of OM did not deign to cross the Atlantic despite recent events.
This absence has been pointed out by many observers. But according to Quotidien du Sport, the American businessman is not losing interest in OM. Quite the contrary. He would in fact increase the number of meetings with his teams to accelerate the sale of the club. With an ambitious objective: to complete the sale of the club before the end of the year. He nevertheless faces a major problem: if the interest of the Saudi camp does not wane despite the new crisis experienced by the club, Saudi Arabia does not intend to give in to the financial demands of Frank McCourt, who hopes withdraw no less than 600 million euros from the sale of OM.
Comfortable in his role, Pablo Longoria would have a clear mission: to clean up the club and resolve the problems with the supporters. A thesis also presented by Thibaud Vézirian, who has announced for almost three years now that the sale of the club has been completed. “ It’s quite classic, ultimately, what happens. But this time it is smoothly carried out on the part of Pablo Longoria. In any club where the stands pose problems, where certain groups of supporters are threatening to the smooth running of the club, we review the fan conventions before formalizing a sale. A buyer has no interest in arriving and directly conflicting with his own supporters over the management of the stands, subscription prices or anything else.
