Respected businessman, Aliko Dangote, has admitted that he is still interested in buying English Premier League team, Arsenal.
Dangote, who is Africa’s richest man, is
worth $15.7billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and
was rebuffed in his attempts to buy a stake in the club in 2010. “I
still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy the team,” Dangote
said in an interview on a flight between Addis Ababa and Lagos.
“I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price that the owners won’t want to resist. I know my strategy.”
If the 58-year-old is successful with
a future bid, it would make him the first African owner of a club in
England. Billionaires like Roman Abramovich (Russia) and Abu Dhabi’s
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan have purchased Chelsea and Manchester
City respectively.
Arsenal is currently valued at £988m
($1.49bn) and Stan Kroenke, owner of the National Football League’s St.
Louis Rams holds 67% shares in the club. Uzbek billionaire Alisher
Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri, own 30%.
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