GIST: Dangote Threatens To Buy Another Football Club If Arsenal FC is not sold to him
Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said he will consider buying another football club if Premiership club Arsenal won't be sold to him.
Dangote, who is a fan of the club has been wanting to buy the British
club for years. He says he'll make a move only after he has completed
one of the world’s biggest oil refineries in Lagos.
“By the time we’ve finished, we’ll be a $30bn company in terms of
revenue,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the New Economy
Forum in Singapore. “We’ll have an excess amount of cash to start
playing around with.”
“I’m very attached to Arsenal but if he won’t sell, I might have to
change,” said Dangote, 61 years old and worth $11.1bn. “I’m very much a
fan of football. I'll like to have a club. I don’t have to own Arsenal.”
American businessman, Stan Kroenke who is worth $8bn is the sole owner of Arsenal club. He bought Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s
30 percent stake in August in a deal that valued the club at about
£1.8bn. Kroenke is also the owner of National Football League’s Los
Angeles Rams.
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