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Boudjellal: If I buy Marseille I'll do everything to bring Zizou here

Mourad Boudjellal admits he'd move for Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane if he ever managed to buy Olympique Marseille.

Boudjellal has attempted to open talks with Frank McCourt about buying the French giants.

And he told La Provence: "On the coach I am very certain: (Andre) Villas-Boas is very good. But for me, there is only one person who has a destiny here. And I think you never escape your fate. Zidane? If tomorrow I was president of this club, I don't know if he would accept, but I would sleep in front of his door. He might get bored after a while, but I will, even if it means getting thrown out. I could not not try. That doesn't mean I would get there, but I would move heaven and earth!

"When you're president of OM, you have to give your all. There is such a fate, such a story to tell. He's a boy who was born here, who missed his appointment with the club as a player when he became the best player in the world. I am very proud of my slogan: 'I do not differentiate between my ambitions and my dreams'. I will apply it to OM, but we are not there yet. I have no legitimacy at the moment. The only thing is to say that we have a project, three francs six sous, and the desire to make this club grow."

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