Having long been interested in Olympique de Marseille, Saudi Arabia was approached by the owners of another Ligue 1 club…
Will Olympique de Marseille one day truly come under the Saudi flag? Saudi Arabia’s interest in the Marseille club has been known for a long time. Recently, The Independent further affirmed that Saudi investors were determined to acquire a new European great in search of its past glory and had ticked off two clubs on the European chessboard: FC Valence and Olympique de Marseille.
Unlike Peter Lim, the owner of the Che club, Frank McCourt is willing to sell OM. But the American businessman, after having invested nearly 500 million since his purchase from Margarita Louis-Dreyfus in 2017, does not intend to sell Ciel et Blanc for less than 600 million euros. Enough to cool the ardor of the Saudis. A situation that… Jim Ratcliffe would like to take advantage of.
According to journalist Romain Molina, the owner of OGC Nice would indeed like to sell the Riviera club as quickly as possible in order to concentrate on Manchester United, which he has not given up on acquiring despite complicated discussions with the family. Glazer. So he would have turned to the Saudi Public Investment Fund to discuss a sale of the Aiglons. For the moment it is only a matter of making contacts and we do not know in the first place whether the PIF may actually be interested in OGC Nice but the information is enough to worry those who hope to see OM be bought by Saudi Arabia.
