The president of Belenenses, Patrick Morais de Carvalho, addressed Belenenses’ members this Wednesday via the club’s YouTube channel, and one of the topics covered, in addition to the football team’s momentum, was the issue of majority investors in Portuguese football, ending up exemplifying the theme with Chelsea’s interest in entering Sporting’s SAD.
“We have to define the financing model we want for Belenenses over the next few years. There are some models that are fashionable and don’t interest us. One of them is the multi-ownership of clubs, as is the case with Red Bull and the City Group. The second known financing model disgusts me and Belenenses even more and has to do with a new trend of clubs buying other clubs. For example, in Portugal there have been reports that Chelsea wants to buy Sporting. I think that’s news and an intention that offends Portugal, in this case offends Sporting fans and offends the Portuguese football industry. That’s not the future, for us it’s unthinkable that Belenenses will be taken over by another club. Belenenses is not willing to be the B team of any European or world club. The third financing model is the notorious majority investors and Belenenses has had enough of this and we don’t believe in this path, not least because nowadays we would be held hostage ‘ad eternum’ by these investors. Then there are minority investors, which is a more difficult path, finding people of integrity who want to be minority investors. Then there’s the associative model, on which Belenenses is not based at the moment,” he said.
The president of Belenenses, Patrick Morais de Carvalho, addressed Belenenses’ members this Wednesday via the club’s YouTube channel, and one of the topics covered, in addition to the football team’s momentum, was the issue of majority investors in Portuguese football, ending up exemplifying the theme with Chelsea’s interest in entering Sporting’s SAD.
“We have to define the financing model we want for Belenenses over the next few years. There are some models that are fashionable and don’t interest us. One of them is the multi-ownership of clubs, as is the case with Red Bull and the City Group. The second known financing model disgusts me and Belenenses even more and has to do with a new trend of clubs buying other clubs. For example, in Portugal there have been reports that Chelsea wants to buy Sporting. I think that’s news and an intention that offends Portugal, in this case offends Sporting fans and offends the Portuguese football industry. That’s not the future, for us it’s unthinkable that Belenenses will be taken over by another club. Belenenses is not willing to be the B team of any European or world club. The third financing model is the notorious majority investors and Belenenses has had enough of this and we don’t believe in this path, not least because nowadays we would be held hostage ‘ad eternum’ by these investors. Then there are minority investors, which is a more difficult path, finding people of integrity who want to be minority investors. Then there’s the associative model, on which Belenenses is not based at the moment,” he said.
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