Boudjellal has his eye on the Sporting Club in Toulon. - Christophe SIMON / AFP

When he has something behind his head, you have to get up early to get it out of him. For some time, when he announced the sale of the RCT and the end of his mission to the presidency of the club, Mourad Boudjellal found himself a new fad: to make the Sporting Club of Toulon, currently in National, a professional club and aim for Ligue 1 in the medium term.

As usual with him, the announcement effects are up to the character: colorful. “I have financiers, I have a very specific project and I have set myself a goal: Ligue 1 in five years! In rugby, I took the stairs. In football, I'm going to take the elevator! What a sense of formula.

The appeal of the Toulon people

And what about what will follow, when the President of Toulon explains that if he launches, it is nothing more or less to answer the call of the people. “When I thought about several avenues, such as the presidency of the LNR, politics or publishing, I was sensitive to all the requests and testimonies that I received. Someone said to me, "If you don't do it, who's going to do it?" She's right. "

Everything in his speech transpires serenity, the certainty that the thing cannot escape him. And when a colleague from L'Equipe points out to him that he is speaking as if everything had been taken for granted, Boudjellal ignites: “Yes, that's for sure! A sports club does not belong to the president [Claude Joye]. If there are no results, you are solely responsible. Pan, on the beak.

It is not the first time that the Toulonnais puts pressure on the current president of Sporting. And Friday, rebelote. In all modesty, it goes without saying: “His best answer would be to impress people. But he is not capable of it… He should already thank me because I highlighted the club. But I am not in the verbal contest. No, it would be known.

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Mourad Boudjellal wants to go from rugby to football… The former owner of the RCT dreams of buying SC Toulon

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