Candidate for the takeover of the OM of Frank McCourt, a businessman that is happy to have maintained that his project was viable.
Can OM have missed the mark? Five years after his aborted attempt to buy back divein full pandemic, Mohamed Ajroudi remains convinced that his project was solid and viable in the long term. The person concerned by wanting as proof the development of the Saudi Pro League, the Saudi elite championship that he thinks he has inspired …
“” My project for Olympique de Marseille was very large, with good and solid partnersDixit the Franco-Tunisian businessman today aged 73, in an interview with journalist Thibaud Vézirian. Our goal was to make this club what politicians of the time have failed to do: group young people from the Mediterranean basin (500 million inhabitants) in a club that belongs to them. “”
To do this, Mohamed Ajroudi counted on the interpersonal skills and the fame of the former president of RC Toulon, Mourad Boudjellal. A partner with whom he finally blurred quickly. “” This gentleman, I don’t know himhe assures.
I did not associate myself with him. There is a whole team that has taken this approach, but as director, you had to put someone from the region and mediatically visible. “”
Ronaldo for avowed objective
The vision of the millionaire industrialist, carried by a consortium of medium-oriental investors who ultimately never landed in Marseille, disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Yet in the eyes of the one who dreamed for OM of “ Recover Zidane », The initial project held the road perfectly. “” My strategy was not to speak, to be silent until the transaction was finished He still regrets.
With an obsession a little surrealist, if not megalo: ” Cristiano Ronaldo was my goalhe assumes. Just follow where he went (In Saudi Arabia, editor’s note). Everything I wanted to do with OM is today in Riyadh or Djeddah. This OM program is applied there. It means that I am listened to somewhere … “”
