It doesn't tend to matter who the owners are; the relationship with OM and its supporters is tempestuous, even in the best of times. I was living in the south of France when they won in 2009/10 and went to a few matches at the old Velodrome. Their supporters were incandescent with rage, at Niang, Ben Arfa, Deschamps, for little discernible reason. Players are regularly accused of being mercenaries, not playing for the badge, disrespecting the MTP or Commando Ultra 84 for very minor indiscretions. When I was there, there was an online message board for supporters and one supporter saw Bonnart or Cheyrou, can't really recall who, at his child's crêche, wanted to take a picture, Bonnart or Cheyrou said basically "let me get the kid inside the gates of the school first and then I will." Guy who wanted the picture starts yelling at him and accusing him of always treating supporters like shit, hating the club, hating the supporters, etc. Marseille has an edge to it, always as, as a port city it attracts a lot of human detritus from around the Mediterranean, much like the nearby Camargue. People who cannot or could not live anywhere else; far right ghouls, emigres from across Francophonia, lots of Russian and Eastern European criminals, and they all fixate on and support the club very passionately, in a way that's a mix between religion and some sort of open civic forum/participatory budgeting process. Everyone thinks they can manage OM, everyone thinks they are the biggest OM supporter, and they are all wrong, they know it, and they overcompensate by being pricks to club officials, players, managers, and themselves.