Very involved financially in the development of Olympique de Marseille, Frank McCourt is always announced as the seller of the club in the event of a big offer. Opinions differ on this subject.
Started over a three-year cycle, OM showed itself to be ambitious with significant recruitment, from players to coaches, despite the absence of the Champions League. Frank McCourt spoke last spring during a visit to Marseille to reaffirm his confidence in Pablo Longoria and explain that he was ready to put the money on the table to allow him to build a team capable of playing leading roles. in France and find Europe through the front door. Also visiting Marseille this fall, the American owner kept his promises and saw the eternal threat of Saudi Arabia recede.
For years, the name of the Gulf Kingdom has been mentioned for a takeover of the club and to allow it to move into a new dimension. But the echoes are more and more discreet, and the door is even closed according to the Coeur Marseillais website. For the local media, Frank McCourt is satisfied with the direction that OM is taking recently, and even if he has to put a lot of money out of his pocket at the end of each season, he believes that the project is moving forward. As a result, the Boston native is no longer a seller of the club, and is not even listening to possible offers.
Enough to make Thibaud Vézirian jump, the club's sales specialist for whom the takeover of OM by Saudi Arabia is still complete and is only a question of timing. The Entrevue journalist thus assures that the information according to which McCourt is no longer a salesman is obviously false. “ McCourt no longer wishes to sell? Yes of course, that's why McCourt carries out everything he does behind the scenes, why he brought in a pact of associates, anyway”quipped Vézirian, for whom everything continues to fall into place for a sale of the club, and the American is the first to be aware of this future.
On the side of Saudi Arabia, we seem in any case quite far from a Marseille project, with the desire to invest in areas other than sport, and to refocus investments on football internally, on the championship and the organization of the World Cup, rather than by buying a new club.
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