Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said he still
wants to buy Arsenal despite failing in a 2010 bid to
acquire a stake in the club.
The Nigerian billionaire is now worth nearly eight
times as much as when he tried to buy into the
Gunners, and the passionate Gooners has not given
up on his dream of getting involved with the north
London club.
FILE PHOTO: Arsenal’s Welsh midfielder Aaron
Ramsey (L) refuses to celebrate with French striker
Olivier Giroud after scoring the opening goal against
his former club Cardiff City during their English
Premier League football match at Cardiff City
Stadium in Cardiff on November 30, 2013.
AFP
PHOTO.
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said he still
wants to buy Arsenal despite failing in a 2010 bid to
acquire a stake in the club.
The Nigerian billionaire is now worth nearly eight
times as much as when he tried to buy into the
Gunners, and the passionate Gooners has not given
up on his dream of getting involved with the north
London club.
“I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy
the team,” Dangote, 58, told Bloomberg.
“I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price
that the owners won’t want to resist,” he continued,
before ominously adding, “I know my strategy.
Interestingly, Dangote has publically stated that
Arsene Wenger “needs to change his style a bit,”
claiming the team “need new direction.”
Dangote – valued at over US$15billion – is worth
more than both Arsenal majority shareholder Stan
Kroenke and Uzbek Billionaire Alisher Usmanov,
who have been fighting for control at the Emirates in
recent years.
But his bid to take over the club won’t be coming
immediately, with the cement and commodities
tycoon wanting to get his portfolio of businesses in
order first.
“We have $16 billion-worth of investments in the
next few years,” he said. “Right now I want to take
my own business to a certain level.
Once I finish on
that trajectory, then maybe”
Majority owner Kroenke recently bought more
shares in Arsenal, and is not believed to have any
interest in selling the club.
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