Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the president and chief executive of the Dangote Group, expressed regret for not purchasing Arsenal when he was more interested in being the owner of a football team.
He acknowledged his regret not to have buying the English football team when it was estimated to be worth $2 billion.
During an interview in New York with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua, the billionaire business magnate clarified that he was unable to purchase Arsenal because he dedicated his resources to the refinery project.
“I believe that time has passed,” he remarked. I told you during our previous interview that I would try to buy Arsenal football club as soon as I finished working the refinery.
However, as you are aware that everything has improved, and the team, Arsenal is right now performing extremely well. Arsenal wasn’t performing well at that point in time.
I don’t think I have enough extra money to go buy a club for $4 billion, so to speak, and use it for a promotional purpose.
However, I’ll keep being the greatest Arsenal supporter anywhere and every time they play i watch their games. I will thus continue to be a fervent Arsenal fan, but I don’t believe that buying Arsenal makes sense right now.,
