According to Tasnim news agency, Fardkin’s team members, as the owners of the Rome club, are going to meet with a group of Saudi investors this week and negotiate with them about the sale of the club.
The Fredkins became the owners of the Roma club in 2020, and since then they have made significant investments to improve the position of the Giallorossi and bring it among the Calcio powers, the most important of which is the recruitment of Jose Mourinho as a head coach and the signing of contracts with stars such as Paulo Dybala and Georginio Wijnaldum. Is. The result of these investments was Rome’s success in winning the European Conference League last season, which is considered the team’s first European Cup. Now Rome is competing side by side with teams like Juventus, Milan and Roma for the European Champions League quota and has the chance to be among Italy’s representatives in the most important club tournament in the world next season.
However, it seems that Dan Fredkin, the executive director and one of the owners of the Roma club, who paid 591 million euros to buy the club from James Pallotta, is not too reluctant to sell Giallorossi, especially since according to the report of the Italian publication Corriere dello Sport. The price of the club has increased to about one billion euros.
The interesting thing to note about the Saudis’ attempt to buy the Roma club is the invitation of an intermediary named Raffaello Follieri to negotiate with the Fredkin brothers. The Italian man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2008 for his role in a $50 million fraud. In the last few years, Follieri tried to enter the world of football by buying a football club, but his offers to buy clubs such as Palermo, Catania and Foggia were rejected one after another.