“I still hope, one day at the right price, that I will buy the team. I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price that the owners won’t want to resist. I know my strategy.”, said 58 year-old Aliko Dangote while talking to Bloomberg.
Dangote, an Arsenal fan worth $15.7 billion, remains unperturbed by his 2010 rejection from the club’s owners. But he says he is too busy to launch a bid now as he wants to take his “own business to a certain level” before making another offer.
He admits that Arsene Wenger, the club’s manager, has done well for the club financially but says that his style needs to change as the club needs a new direction.
If he would succeed, he would become the latest billionaire to make a foray into the English Premiership Leage but the first African tycoon to do so. Chelsea FC is owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and UAE mogul and deputy prime minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan controls Manchester FC.
Dangote’s estimated net worth is more than both owners of the club, Stan Kroenke ($5.6 billion) and Alisher Usmanov ($14.7 billion).
Source: Bloomberg
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