It’s only been a few months since Mourad Boudjellal passed the hand to the RCT to Bernard Lemaître. A media man, he was constantly questioned about the rest. After all, he is only 60 years old. For months, he has let filter the desire to drive the Sporting Club of Toulon to the heights, this club which made him dream in the 80s with Rolland Courbis on the bench. But since Friday, he embarked on another story, Olympique de Marseille, the club of Bernard Tapie, the man who made Boudjellal want to be president in sport. Originally, as explained for several days on the Phocaean, we came to get it. But it should not be believed that the businessman allowed himself to be intoxicated and made himself the spokesperson of the cause just for a story of ego, to be at the center of the scene. Boudjellal knows that the boomerang can come back quickly, especially when you play with the passion of the fans in the sport. It was valid in rugby, it is all the more true in football, at the Olympique de Marseille. Friday, when detailing his plan, he is doing Boudjellal, with this determination in the speech that makes the hair stand on end. The problem is that in Toulon, the hair bristled in the other direction …
OM and Toulon still rivals?
The two clubs, and especially their supporters, have a historic rivalry. For some, it’s just folklore and you have to ignore it. Today, Jordan Amavi, child of Sporting, who was able to play on this rivalry to win the hearts of his supporters in Nice in his first years in pro, is fully invested in his mission at OM. For others, see Mourad Boudjellal detailing his project from the premises of the Var club, it does not pass. In 2018, while Toulon faced the OM reserve in National 2, the supporters of the two clubs met in Carnoux to face off. The President of Toulon, Claude Joye, therefore rushed into the breach to criticize Boudjellal, having with him several associations of Toulon supporters. What to divert the “big mouth” of his Marseille project? Absolutely not.
How can OM pass after a L2 project?
The fact remains that in the story that has been sold to us for the time being, questions remain: how can an entrepreneur who fails to recover a team relegated to the third division “fall back” on the second in the first division? In the OM project, Mourad Boudjellal is in a loop where there are many people where he will have a much more providential role in Toulon. But as the two possibilities still exist, there is something to ask questions, in one camp, as in the other. Pending further progress on the OM recovery plan that concerns him, including the proposed takeover from Frank McCourt, Mourad Boudjellal is certain: next season, the Sporting Club of Toulon will come to OM Campus. .. since the Var club is back in National 2 and will be in the pool of the Marseille reserve.
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