INVESTIGATION – The former president of RC Toulon is piloting a project to buy out the Marseille club from the Middle East.
Media whirlwind. Mourad Boudjellal has got into the habit – and he plays with it – of being talked about, but there, “it’s violent». «The last time my laptop rang so much was when I had the preview of Emmanuel Macron in Bercy“, He confides to Figaro. Last week, the announcement of a project to take over Olympique de Marseille by investors from the Middle East (“state and private funds“) Looked like a bomb. With the former president of the Rugby Club Toulonnais as headliner, and potential future president of the Marseille club. “They came to get me and I went there thinking that it was not going to happen. So I have nothing to lose, he continues. My way of dealing with things is to prepare for failure. It is the culture of the poor. When we prepare for failure, we are completely calm. For two months, it’s been an incredible thing.»
By landing in the world of football, which is more at OM, Boudjellal changes dimension. Bigger, stronger.
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