Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has stated that he will consider buying another football club if the Premiership club, Arsenal, would not be sold to him.
Dangote, who has been a fan of the club for several years, and has been talking about buying the British club for a long period now, disclosed that he would buy the club only after he has completed one of the world’s biggest oil refineries in Lagos, Nigeria
“By the time we’ve finished the world’s biggest oil refinery in Lagos, we’ll be a $30bn company in terms of revenue.
“We’ll have an excess amount of cash to start playing around with to buy Arsenal.
“I’m very attached to Arsenal but if he won’t sell, I might have to change. I’m very much a fan of football. I’ll like to have a club. I don’t have to own Arsenal,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the New Economy Forum in Singapore.
American businessman, Stan Kroenke, who is worth $8bn is the sole owner of Arsenal club.
