Many people have joked about Frank McCourt and his financial inability to provide enormous resources to OM. In the meantime, the American’s fortune is now estimated at 1.3 billion euros.
The owner of Olympique de Marseille has given the green light to Pablo Longoria so that the Marseille club can achieve a very big transfer window, starting with the signing of Roberto De Zerbi whose salary is not small. Obviously, for those who see in all this the hidden intervention of Saudi Arabia, there is no surprise. But for the most realistic supporters, it is clear that Frank McCourt knows how to progress his business, and the latest ranking of billionaires for the year 2024 proves it. The economic magazine Forbes has updated its data, and if the Boston-based businessman is ranked “only” 2,189th in the hit parade of global billionaires, McCourt still has a fortune estimated at 1, 3 billion euros to date.
OM does not prevent Frank McCourt from sleeping
So obviously, the owner of the Olympique de Marseille is very far from Elon Musk, the world’s largest fortune after more than 433 billion euros, or even from Bernard Arnault, French boss of the LVMH group, who decided, via his son , to buy Paris FC, and who is at the head of a fortune estimated by Forbes at 160 billion euros. But contrary to what some had suggested, Frank McCourt knows how to manage his interests and he has no problem investing in Olympique de Marseille, even if for a long time he lost money.
The recent idea of seeing him buy the Vélodrome is therefore not that far-fetched, McCourt having always favored investments in real estate. And the other evidence is that at this stage, the American businessman does not need money from Saudi Arabia to carry out his project at the head of OM, which he has several times repeated without convincing the last diehards. When you have 1.3 billion euros in your pocket like Frank McCourt, you don’t have a knife to your throat.
