The City of Marseille succeeds in reassessing the amount of the annual rent of the Vélodrome. This one would go from five million to six and a half million fixed part, tells us this Thursday morning the municipality which confirms information revealed by La Provence. An increase negotiated with the club which could even increase to nine million with the variable portion. A sum “which would be easily accessible“, explains Benoît Payan to our colleagues, because it depends on all of the club’s turnover generated by the operation of the Vélodrome. He continues: “It is a satisfaction for me. It was not fair that the Marseillais pay instead of Olympique de Marseille. Justice has been restored.“
Olympique de Marseille, which is already facing a financial hole to fill, according to what the newspaper l’Équipe revealed this week. The director of strategy, Pedro Iriondo, announced that OM would have to “find 19 to 20 million euros urgently, in the coming weeks, outside the sports sector”. The latter referred to “savings on the running costs of the club”. This seems compromised with today’s announcement.