After assuring in the media that he did not want to sell Olympique de Marseille, owner Frank McCourt formally rejected the offer to negotiate from Franco-Tunisian businessman Mohamed Ajroudi, according to an email that AFP was able to consult Thursday.
The lawyer of the American, Olivier de Vilmorin, makes "part, in a formal and definitive manner, of the response of (his) client: the club is not for sale, Mr. McCourt does not wish to engage in discussions with your clients".
First objection officially addressed to Ajroudi
If OM, through its president Jacques-Henri Eyraud and the communication of its owner, repeated for three weeks that the club was not for sale and that there had never been any negotiations started with the Franco-Tunisian businessman, this is the first time that an end of inadmissibility has been officially addressed to Mohamed Ajroudi.
The email consulted by AFP is a response from Me Vilmorin (of the Sullivan & Cromwell cabinet) to the Wingate investment bank, mandated by Ajroudi to buy OM. The bank had recently officially contacted McCourt to begin negotiations.