Dangote Hope To Buy Arsenal Football Team

One of Africa’s richest man, and a ardent Arsenal fan, Aliko Dangote, said he still wants to buy the English Premier League soccer team even after he was rebuffed by its owners in 2010.

Dangote who is worth $15.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, was in talks to buy a stake in the club five years ago before the deal didn't pull through. The 58 year old, said in an interview as he travelled on a plane on May 1.

“I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll 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.”