Zapping But! Football club OM: the numbers of Jorge Sampaoli’s coaching career
In a week, Mourad Boudjellal will meet OM again, in the round of 32 of the Coupe de France. Now in charge of Hyères, the businessman who propelled the Toulon rugby club to European heights has threatened to forfeit if the match is played anywhere other than in the Var or at the Vélodrome. However, it will be held in Martigues. Waiting to see if he will carry out his threat, he returned, for the JDD, to his attempt to take over OM in 2020 with Mohamed Ajroudi. A fiasco he still regrets…
“In this story I let myself be seduced, it was exciting. I never wanted to buy OM, but Ajroudi, maybe he had the means or the investors to do it. Only he just wanted to do a round trip. And above all, he lied because he never had contact with McCourt, when he assured me. The media coverage drove him crazy. We were in total delirium, ridiculous. I was no good, but I don’t care about my image. Even Picasso was doing drafts. So much the better that had it not happened with OM. It was too big to start. I think I would have quit woefully. And be driven out of Marseilles with tar and feathers.
Coupe de France: The Hyères club confirms the match against OM but not the president Boudjellal. https://t.co/XIyGMft4HC
— France Bleu Provence (@bleuprovence) December 27, 2022
to summarise
Now president of Hyères, future OM opponents in the Coupe de France, Mourad Boudjellal is back in a bid to buy the club in summer 2020 in the company of sulphurous Mohamed Ajroudi. It’s an understatement to say that they regret several things about this period…
