Qatar wiped out the sale of Olympique de Marseille – Sport.fr
Linked to Saudi Arabia for several years, Olympique de Marseille will not be bought. A sale aborted due to the presence of Qatar in Paris.
“It is known that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are two enemy brothers who hate each other. Literally, there were boycotts and threats. That’s why they even have deep down, in terms of strategy to invest in football, they don’t want to go to Marseille. If they really had to think, dialogue, discuss, on a probable sale and takeover of Olympique de Marseille, which never happened. But if they had to think about it, they couldn’t take the risk, vis-à-vis Qatar which is really their worst enemy, of losing for 5 years before being able to settle down in the long term and become a competitive club.”
Rather than Olympique de Marseille, Saudi Arabia has decided to enter the Premier League, with Newcastle being far, far away from Paris Saint-Germain: “ There in Newcastle, the advantage is what the Premier League is, they will be able to try their hand against the English Big 6 and without finally having these two annual meetings against PSG, if it had been OM, and take the risk of losing them. Because in the media and diplomatically for them, it went against what they hoped for in this quest to improve their reputation and notoriety in football.“, named Pierre Rondeau, specialist in the economy of sport on the antennas of RMC Sports.