He wants to “set the record straight”. The businessman Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi speaks again this Wednesday on his plan to buy back OM, unveiled since the end of June. And like Friday, the Franco-Tunisian chose to do so via a press release from his financial lawyer, the Swiss Marc Deschenaux.
“Mr. Ajroudi and his partners officially offer the current shareholders to buy the Club de l’Olympique de Marseille at their acquisition price (Editor’s note: 45 million euros in 2016), by taking back all the debts and expenses relating to the functioning of the Club, duly justified, which they have incurred since its acquisition ”, announces the text.
“They undertake to pay the amount necessary to settle the solution with the ICFC-UEFA ( Editor’s note: the financial control body for clubs ) about the annual losses of the last three years, as already mentioned. This offer is their last firm offer, valid for the next ten working days, subject to audit of accounts and full disclosure of commitments and disputes in progress or foreseeable as they stand, ”the press release continued.
McCourt has already made it known he doesn’t want to sell
As a reminder, OM had an estimated deficit of 127 million euros in June. In all, owner Frank McCourt has invested 300 million euros in the Marseille club. Thursday, the American announced via his lawyer that he was absolutely not a seller of OM, engaged in the Champions League this season for the first time since his arrival in Provence. His entourage did not stop repeating that there would be no negotiations and that he saw in the Ajroudi project a “plan of destabilization”.
The Ajroudi clan press release aims to “dispel the vagueness generated by the emotions mediated and the media reactions” and to confirm that the investors led by the Franco-Tunisian “have this will and this capacity both from a financial point of view and from a management point of view ”.
“Some are surprised or annoyed that such a case is treated by the media and it is not in the habit of Mr. Ajroudi, or his partners, or his advice to operate in this way , but then we had no choice ”, concludes the text.
