Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has been told how much it will cost him to buy English Premier League side Arsenal.
According to Bob Ratcliffe, brother of Jim Ratcliffe-one of Britain’s richest men- buying one of EPL’s big sides particularly Arsenal will cost him £2 billion ($ 2.6 billion).
The Nigerian billionaire back in January this year reiterated his intention of buying the North London club English club after finishing some projects he had in mind for his company.
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“It is a team that yes I would like to buy some day, but what I keep saying is we have $20billion worth of projects and that’s what I really want to concentrate on. I’m trying to finish building the company and then after we finish, maybe some time in 2021 we can do that. So I will be buying Arsenal when I finish all these projects,” he said.
Bob told the Financial Times’ Business of Football Summit that a takeover of a ‘top six’ club would cost at least £2billion.
Meanwhile, a move for a team elsewhere in the Premier League would cost between £150million and £350million.