OM sale: the project deemed “credible” by a specialist – Season

Since Friday, Mourad Boudjellal announces plans to buy OM by an investment fund from the Middle East aroused skepticism. The Marseille club, through its president Jacques-Henri Eyraud, insists that the club is not for sale and certain voices are raised to denounce the lack of seriousness of the project.

For France TVSport, Pascal Boniface, director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, gave his vision of the possible takeover: “This project is credible in any case. It is credible that funds coming from the Middle East, and especially from Saudi Arabia, want to buy OM by hiring the services of Mourad Boudjellal, who is an important figure in the world of sport and the media. It attracts light and there would be an emblematic president who would put himself at the head of a diplomatic-sports project. Then, we have to see if Franck McCourt wants to sell or not. capital, why not, since it would make a good profit (a buyout of up to 300 million euros is mentioned while the American bought OM for 50 million euros in 2016, note). “