Billionaire Aliko Dangote,
has said he will consider buying another football club if English 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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