”Any sport club ultimately should belong to its fans. The current development, where billionaire sheiks and oligarchs take over clubs and control them as their personal playgrounds is not a healthy trend,” he says.
Thomas Zilliacus, better known in Singapore as the former chairman of YuuZoo Corp, has thrown in his hat to buy Manchester United.
In an interview with UK paper The Mirror, Zillacus outlined a “fan ownership” model, which he says will be “appealing” to the supporters of one of the world’s most famous soccer club.
