The former soccer player and businessman maintains conversations with Pedro Lourenco, a renowned owner of a supermarket chain. He would get rid of 90% of the shares that he acquired at the end of December 2021 for US$70 million.
In the absence of positive results and for a few weeks, Ronaldo is negotiating with an important supermarket businessman the sale of all his shares in Cruzeiro.
Currently, ‘O fenômeno’ has 90% control of the Belo Horizonte club, which it acquired in December 2021 for US$70 million, in addition to being the owner of Real Valladolid in Spain. The other 10% belongs to the Cruzeiro association. Both parties hope that the agreement will be made official soon. The negotiations are with businessman Pedro Lourenco.
In Cruzeiro, who are currently in the middle zone after an irregular start in the Brasileirao, are waiting to find out the future of the club. If this movement is completed, the Brazilian club will begin an administrative transaction process.
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According to the portal G.E., sources close to Ronaldo confirmed that there is already an agreement between both parties, although no document has been signed so far. With all that, Pedro Lourenco (owner of BH Supermarkets) would take most of Cruzeiroand although some names from the current management could be maintained, changes would also be made within the club.
Ronaldo: the details of the possible agreement
In 2021 in Cruzeiro it was approved for the club to become a SAF (Sociedad Anónima de Fútbol), announcing Ronaldo as maximum shareholder with a purchase of 90% of the team. Pedro Loureno was the main investor from the beginning. once ‘Or phenomenon‘He took the mandate of the Minas Gerais club so that the project in the Brazilian entity could prosper. For this reason, it is one of the largest creditors of the current judicial recovery of the association, with US$ 5,630,000 (R$ 28,827,538.42) registered in the RJ Cruzeirense.
After returning the club to the Brazilian Serie A, the possibility of a sale seems to have been in the former striker’s orbit in recent times. At the end of 2023, Ronaldo admitted that the sale of Cruzeiro was a possibility in the futureall this after a somewhat complicated end to the season within the club.
The amounts for which the agreement between Ronaldo and Pedro Lourenco could be closed are unknown.although in the past the one who could become the new owner of Cruzeiro stated that the former Brazilian international was asking for around 77 million dollars (R$400 million).
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