Aliko Dangote: Nigerian Billionaire Expresses Hope to Own English Premier League Club Arsenal



£105African billionaire Aliko Dangote says he is still agog on affairs Arsenal. The 58-year-old Nigerian, who is account over an estimated €13.5 billion - which makes him Africa's richest man - explored the achievability of purchasing the club in 2010, but his access was rejected.
"I still hope, one day at the appropriate price, that I'll buy the team," Dangote told Bloomberg Business. "I ability buy it, not at a antic amount but a amount that the owners will not wish to resist. I knowmy strategy.
The 58-year-old, Africa's richest man, bootless in a bid to buy the Gunners in 2010 and says that he will apply on his own business afore appointment a new offer.
Dangote, who has fabricated his affluence through assorted operations including adhesive manufacturing, amoroso accumulation and oil investments, says that he will apply on accretion his own business afore ablution a new action for Arsenal.
“We accept $16bn-worth [€14bn] of investments in the next few years. Appropriate now I wish to yield my own business to a assertive level. Once I accomplishment on that trajectory, again maybe an action will follow," he continued.
Dangote is an Arsenal fan but has criticised Arsene Wenger, claiming that the 65-year-old "needs to change his appearance a bit" and admonishing that the club "need new direction".

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