West Ham in focus: Czech billionaire negotiates purchase of English club

Daniel Kretinsky, Czech billionaire owner of Sparta Prague, negotiates the purchase of 27% of West Ham United, according to English media announced on Thursday.

The purchase, which would be a matter of days, could be an approach by the businessman to end up taking control of the majority of the Premier League team.

In addition to owning the Sparta in Prague, Kretinsky has significant investments in British companies such as the Royal Mail postal company, where he is the largest shareholder, and Sainsbury supermarkets, where he is the second. It is estimated that its assets exceed 3,400 million euros.

The Czech’s offer would put West Ham’s value between 600 and 700 million pounds (approximately 800 million euros), after a club like Newcastle United was sold to a Saudi fund a few weeks ago for 300 million pounds. .

This operation would end the eleven years of David Gold and David Sullivan at the helm of West Ham, since they took control of the club in 2010.

In recent years there have been protests against the owners of West Ham, culminating in the 2017/2018 season, when, with the team on the verge of relegation, there was a field invasion at the Olympic Stadium in London that forced the captain Mark Noble to send a fan off the field.

Among the decisions that have been made at the ‘Hammer’ club in recent years, the move from the old Boleyn Ground to the London Olympic stand out.

With information from EFE