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Jul 20, 2018
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and Fortress Investment Group co-Founder Wes Edens have agreed to buy a stake in Aston Villa, injecting funds into the English soccer team that narrowly missed rejoining the lucrative Premier League last season.
Tony Xia, the Chinese businessman that bought the club in 2016, will become co-chairman and will remain on the board, the team said in a statement on Friday. Sawiris and Eden’s group, NSWE, will control a 55 percent stake in the team, a person familiar with the matter said.
Most of the major English teams have been bought by wealthy foreign buyers in the past dozen years. Chelsea was taken over by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, Manchester United by the Glazer family and Liverpool by the owners of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Aston Villa was acquired by Xia from U.S. businessman Randy Lerner in May 2016.
Aston Villa dropped out of the top-ranked Premier League in 2016 and plays in the second-tier Championship division. After spending on new players in an attempt to be promoted back into the Premier League, with its lucrative broadcast revenues, the team lost to Fulham Football Club in the Championship final in May.
It’s a fall from grace for a team that won the European Cup in 1982. The Birmingham team is based in Villa Park, originally a Victorian amusement park that’s been the club’s home since 1887.
Sawiris has several high-profile investments including in German shoemaker Adidas AG, cement firm LafargeHolcim Ltd. and nitrogen-fertilizer company OCI NV, which he runs. Some of those stakes are held through his investment vehicle NNS Holding.
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