L.N. Mittal eyes the Premiership
Posted by V on June 12th, 2007
The World’s richest Indian and the man who is the living embodiment of the adage ‘charity begins at home’ wants a piece of the multi billion dollar premiership pie. He is said to be in talks with Birmingham FC with a view to a possible takeover.At present, his wealth outstrips that of Roman and possibly all other Premiership CEOs put together. He hasn’t given any information on whether this will mean the likes of Kaka and Ronaldinho being linked to the little English club but it would certainly give the Blues something to cheer about.
Mittal made the papers last year over his hostile takeover of Steel company Arcelor. The steel magnate’s younger brother is already the proud owner of a Bulgarian Club, CSKA Sofia.
After all this, we won’t be surprised to see Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffett join this mayhem….
June 15th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Makes sense too with Birmingham having the second largest indian population in UK after London. Villa are a bigger club there but they were bought last yr only so not much choice.
Though attracting players to Birmingham would be difficult indeed, they dont have the history or a attractive location. Money only goes a certain distance, otherwise all the world’s top players would have been playing in Middle East/Russian leagues.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:17 am
i have a doubt why not mital take up football in india, as his personal fortune is quite enuff to a start kind of futbol league premiership in india bringing the foreign players etc….etc….
He have done nothing with respect to steel atleast he can do something wrt to football and increase the viewer ship and so that we can watch our favorite players playing out home….
as the economany is shifting to towards east … i am sure the next genration players will be heading to G5 (BRIC)instead of the “powerful” G8
from “IT” to football …with more than 30% of the world population in our region days will come …even bill gates and warren buffet have recruitment from our premier IITs .. ia m sure it is a matter of time…
June 18th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I think the current location will become a helluva lot more attractive when Mittal is done with it. Add that to the extra thickness in the player’s back pockets and they will all be knocking on Birmingham’s door.