After Meeting With $2.3 Billion Soccer Club, Qatar Show Interest in American Owned Teams in England

After hosting an incredible FIFA world cup, Qatar has already started making moves to invest in European soccer. According to various reports, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) is interested in investing to gain some equity in one of the major clubs in the Premier League. A few days ago few media houses reported that the officials from both sides QSI and Tottenham Hotspur had a meeting in London regarding discussing the potential deal. However, in addition to Tottenham, QSI is also interested in other clubs like Manchester United and Liverpool FC.

Defying all expectations Qatar had pulled off hosting the World Cup rather magnificently. The closing ceremony was just soon beautiful so was the opening ceremony of the tournament. The QSI now wants to hold that hype train of soccer coming to Qatar and try to put their name in another European team.

Qatar is eying investing more in soccer

According to the reports, Qatar had invested around 200 billion USD in hosting the World Cup. A major chunk of that investment went into building infrastructure like hotels and stadiums. However, after the completion of the tournament, QSI is now ready to have its name in the ownership group of one more European team.

It’s not that only QSI is interested. Both Manchester United and Liverpool FC had made public statements about being willing to put the team on sale. However, none had made any public statement on the QSI approaching them to invest in their club. Reuters had reached out to QSI and Manchester united but there is no response from either side.

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CBS previously reported that QSI chairman Nasser Al-khalifa had met with Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy. However, the meeting of any kind to purchase and sell equity had been denied by Tottenham. We have no idea what’s going on, as there are no official statements yet.

Saudi Arabia inspired them

If we talk about two countries ready to invest millions in soccer, today would be Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It is not a coincidence that after Qatar Saudi Arabia is eyeing to presenting their bid to host FIFA World Cup. Reports are that will be having Ronaldo by their side while presenting the bid.

However, if we talk about investment in soccer, Saudi Arabia isn’t playing around. The second they came to know that Cristiano Ronaldo is in the market as a free agent. They presented him with an offer. An offer that was so lucrative that Ronaldo is now playing in the Saudi Arabian League.

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Now on the back of this success, they are eying to get other major players and send them offers as well.