Close antecedent
On February 7th, Scioli and Santillán They had met at the Alvear Hotel with Nicolás Maya, head of acquisitions at the US holding company 777 Partners, who had been contacted by the businessman FIFA Match Agent, Guillermo Toffoni, who was closely linked to the Argentine National Team until he had a short circuit with the president of AFA, Claudio Tapia. At that meeting, honding’s interest in buying a club from Argentina was discussed, but They ruled out Boca and River.
The North American fund is a minority shareholder (8%) of Seville (Spain), controls Genoa (Italy), Red Star Paris (France), Standard de Liege (Belgium), Vasco da Gama (Brazil) and Melbourne Victory (Australia). In addition, he has contributed some 180 million dollars to Everton in England, since he closed the purchase of the club four months ago and kept 94.1% of the club.
Specific offers
On more than one occasion Milei pointed out that “We have concrete offers. Manchester City wants to buy a club from Argentina, a very big one. “They are two big clubs in England that would be interested in buying local clubs.”
Obviously, the owner of AFA, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia rHe brought together the presidents of the clubs at the Ezeiza property to discuss the issue and was rejected by everyone, except for Talleres de Córdoba, which did not send representatives and which, secretly, functions as a SAD.
In his war with AFA, Milei redoubled the bet at the time and went for more and treated them as “dirty” and “mafia.” In a few words he said: “If they were clean they would allow competition, but since they are dirty they don’t allow competition. The best sign that there is a mafia is that they don’t allow competition. If you are clean it doesn’t bother you.”
In recent days the charge with which the City Footabll Group, owned by Arab Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, He wants to venture into Argentina – as he already did in Uruguay by purchasing Montevideo City Torque – by entering the share package of a so-called “big” club.
Over the weekend, the version circulated on social media that this club was San Lorenzo but president Marcelo Moretti denied a possible sale of the club to the City Football Group.
Through his X account (former Twitter), the Barça president responded to a post by journalist Pablo Carrozza that indicated that “The big club that wants to buy the City Football Group is San Lorenzo.”
“Macri spoke with Moretti and asked him to support the SAD. In exchange, the Arabs would give him the money to build the new field on Avenida La Plata. I told them in the middle of the campaign. “Moretti seeks to privatize.”
The president of Ciclón picked up the gauntlet and was quick to respond: “This information is totally FALSE.”
Discarded San Lorenzo, There are four “big” teams left. However, Boca and Rver must be ruled out outright. The xeneize president, Juan roman riquelme, During the campaign he used as a flag to win the elections that the opposition formula led by Andrés Ibarra and Muricio Macri He was coming to privatize the club, therefore he would betray his own words – and the member – if he decided to sell the club to a holding company.
In Riverdespite a certain not entirely convincing wink from its president Jorge Brito To the SAD, the club at the time issued a statement that said: “Following the spirit of our founders, we reject public limited companies in Argentine football, as our Assembly ratified in 2016 when the Super League was established. The River Plate Atlético Club is a non-profit Civil Association, and will always belong to its members, who are the support of these 122 years of Greatness,” expressed the official Millo account.
Outside – as Milei would say – San Lorenzo, Boca and River, there are two great ones left. Defoliating the daisy and doing a little historical revisionism racing He was already managed at the time and it didn’t go well at all. In addition, his current pResident Víctor Blanco was clear: “Racing cannot be a public limited company, that was clear in the club’s statute. Nobody has to explain to us what SADs mean in a football club. Our partners and fans, who recovered democracy for Racing, know this well. For past, present and future, Racing ratifies its status as a non-profit civil association. As expressed in its Social Statute. The club belongs to the members.”
Dangerous connection
Discarded the big 4, the only one left is Independent. For many years now, politics has been embedded within the Avellaneda club. First it was with the union members Hugo and Pablo Moyano and since December of last year with the PRO, party founded by Mauricio Macri, a precursor of the arrivals of the SAD to Argentine football.
From this arises the concern of the people of Independent. The club has two members of the PRO within it: the Buenos Aires chief of staff and former mayor of Lanús, Néstor Grindetti, as president, and the national deputy Crisitan Ritondo in a minor position.
Furthermore, the technical director is Carlos Tevez, a very close man, more than close, friend of Mauricio Macri, of whom he was a partner in the controversial wind farm business.
Another fact is that the sheikh Mansour bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates took him to play in 2009 at Manchester City.
Another one that appeared on the feue scene Sergio “Kun” Agüero who was also hired by the same sheikh in 2011 to play for City, and who currently usually defends the ideas of “freedom.”
In addition, the former “Rojo” player supported You look when the conflict arose between the coach and the referee Pablo Dóvalo, after the scandalous match between Barracas Central and Independiente.
Although it is also said that Lanús is the club in which the City Footabll Club is interested, All roads lead to Avellaneda. More so if you take into account that Independiente has to pay almost US$4,700.00 before June 30 (for the Ecuadorian Fernando Gaibor US$2,378,000 and for the Uruguayan Gastón Silva (US$2,270,000) in order not to be inhibited in the mid-year passes. In addition, the club must comply with the commitment to pay off a debt of US$8,900,000 before the end of the year.
To make matters worse, the words of Grindetti They were not very encouraging: “The club is in order, but we don’t have that much money…”
The concrete thing is that through City Football Group or of American holding company 777 Partners the SAD They fly menacingly over the sky of Argentine football.
Source: Ambito
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