We want your cookies to provide you with the most productive reading experience imaginable, offering you articles tailored to where you live and ads based on your interests, with maximum site security.
They contribute to the business style of our company and allow the journalists in our newsroom, deployed throughout the region, to continue producing reliable and quality information, close to you.
The DNCG, the body in charge of monitoring the accounts of French professional clubs, announced on Wednesday, November 29, the “supervision of the wage bill” of Olympique de Marseille, whose movements will be monitored during the transfer period.
In its statement, the DNCG refers to a “framework of the wage bill in the revised budget presented through the club. ” OM presented a revised budget from the one drawn up before the summer, taking into account the club’s non-qualification for the Champions League organizational level.
Subsequently, OM released a statement saying it welcomed the DNCG’s resolution without any particular concerns. “OM’s control has presented a budget that respects the strictest control standards and is part of the club’s monetary sustainability, defended through the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Pablo Longoria,” OM writes. “The monetary regulator welcomed this presentation and unreservedly validated the club’s forecasts, thus allowing the control team to calmly continue the transformation of the club within the budgetary framework,” he added, referring to a “relationship of trust” between the club and the DNCG.
READ ALSO. Europa League: OM qualified for the 16-year-olds or the 16-year-olds if. . .
Marseille deserve to stay active in the winter transfer window
According to a club source, this payroll control puts OM under surveillance, but does not prevent them from being active if they want to pass the winter transfer window. While OM is struggling in the championship (12th with a game in hand), there are bound to be moves, especially as several players are expected to drop out of the Africa Cup of Nations.
During the 2021-2022 season, OM had already been subject through the DNCG to a framework of its “salary bill and moving allowances. “Since June 2022 and the lifting of this surveillance measure, the DNCG had given OM the green light.
Although they are in the red (losses of €31 million according to the latest figures published by the DNCG), OM’s accounts have been in the red for several seasons. President Pablo Longoria hopes to reduce the deficit to around €12 million by the end of the season.