Premier League golf equipment need to COPY Manchester Metropolis membership community mannequin
Wolverhampton Wanderers house owners Fosun are reportedly set so as to add one other staff to their portfolio of golf equipment.
In accordance with a report by the Guardian, the Chinese language conglomerate is just not accomplished investing in European sports activities groups and are making contemporary strikes so as to add a number of extra golf equipment to its portfolio.
The report claims that the corporate’s representatives have contacted house owners of Belgian facet Ok.V. Oostende, Pacific Media Group, over the opportunity of investing within the membership at present combating towards relegation from the Belgian topflight.
PMG, owned by Chinese language-American businessman Chien Lee and Paul Conway, has stakes in a number of different European golf equipment, together with League One facet Barnsley, Nancy in France and Kaiserslautern in Germany. Nonetheless, they’re believed to be open to promoting their stake in Oostende, which they bought in April 2020 from earlier proprietor Marc Coucke.
Aside from Fosun and Wolves, Chelsea is one other Premier League membership trying to unfold their tentacles round Europe. The Blues house owners, who purchased the membership slightly below a yr in the past, have stepped up curiosity in shopping for a stake in French facet Strasbourg after UEFA’s president, Aleksander Ceferin, opened the door to enjoyable restrictions on golf equipment with the identical proprietor enjoying in the identical European competitions.
Newcastle United can also be trying to unfold its web. The membership director Amanda Staveley not too long ago urged that the membership’s house owners need to add a membership to their portfolio to “develop Newcastle and our model.” Final week, she was reported by Bloomberg to have had talks with 777 Companions, which owns stakes in a number of golf equipment together with Spanish La Liga facet Sevilla and Belgian facet Commonplace Liège, over a possible funding into the enterprise capital agency.
Soccer golf equipment with main stakes in different golf equipment embody Manchester Metropolis, who personal main shares in golf equipment in Australia, Spain, France, Asia, South America and the US. Evangelos Marinakis, the proprietor of Nottingham Forest, additionally has a serious stake in Olympiakos, whereas the Pozzo household, house owners of Watford, additionally personal Serie A facet Udinese.
