Early beginnings for the son of Robert (deceased in 2009) and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus.
According to information from the
Guardian
, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus is about to buy the Sunderland club.
An agreement has already been reached with the current owner Stewart Donald, on a sale of 80% of the shares of the six-time champion club of England.
The latter, at the head of the club since 2018, will retain 15% of the shares.
Approached by a Uruguayan businessman
Also according to the British daily, this Olympique de Marseille fan was approached by Juan Sartori, a Uruguayan politician and businessman.
Sartori, member of the club's board of directors as a shareholder (he holds 20% of the club's shares), allegedly contacted Kyril Louis-Dreyfus six months ago to explain his plan to buy back and take over from Donald. , who wanted to leave his place at the head of the club that came down from the Premier League four years ago and has been languishing for two years in League One (third division), where he occupies sixth place.
The transaction could be formalized over the next two weeks.
The opportunity for one of the three heirs of the Louis-Dreyfus family, with a fortune estimated at 2 billion euros, to make his mark at the head of a professional football club.
Before one day taking over, like his father and then his mother, the management of OM?
"It is for him (Kyril) that I had kept 5%", had entrusted Margarita Louis-Dreyfus at the time of the sale of the club to the American Franck McCourt.
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