( 123over )Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), the Middle Eastern conglomerate that owns Paris Saint-Germain, is interested in investing in building its own football network, with the latest move targeting Spanish sleeping giant Malaga. 123over
Marca reports that QSI has seen football business models in the pipeline from Manchester City’s City Football Group, Manchester United’s Ineos Sports and Chelsea’s BlueCo, three Premier League clubs.
Including the first market leaders, Red Bull, with RB Leipzig from the German Bundesliga as the leader.
Lessons from networks show that having a team in an alliance increases each other’s growth potential, both in terms of sharing personnel and, most importantly in this era, embellishing financial accounts and disguising legal transactions.
So Qatar Sports Investments wants to build a football partnership beyond its investments in Formula 1 and the NBA.
The football team that ‘QSI’ is considering is Malaga CF, a club in the Spanish Segunda Division, which is based in the big market in the south of Spain and has played in the top league and European football during the 2000s.
Los Albiceleste is currently owned by Spanish hotel/real estate group Blue Bay, which holds a 49% stake, along with Qatari businessman Abdullah Al Thani.
123over The next step before considering a takeover is for Malaga to settle its corporate assets court case, which will allow QSI to step on the gas pedal. ( 123over )
