“Reputation is everything,” the prestigious businessman Warren Buffet repeated to those close to him. A slogan that Roman Abramovich seems to have understood from the beginning of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Pending sanctions from the British government for his links with Putin, the owner of the Chelsea He handed over the management to the Foundation last Saturday, so that the image of the club would not lose value.
Now he is looking for buyers for the club, which he has valued at 3,600 million euros, according to the Daily Mail. Abramovich expects to receive offers this week, and hisNot one of those who is considering the purchase is Hansjörg Wyss. The Swiss investor has a fortune estimated at more than 5,000 million eurosbut oddly enough, it will not be enough to win Chelsea.
Therefore, Wyss is only considering buying the club with a group of six to seven investors. Behind the Swiss billionaire is a US consortium, which is currently made up of three businessmen, according to Blick. When the businessman answered the questions from the German newspaper, he still did not know the sale price, but he already anticipated that it would become a point of contention.
Wyss managed to sell the company he founded, Synthes, for $20.2 billion to Johnson & Johnson.. Synthes used to make medical devices, and the businessman now holds his stakes in several publicly traded biotech companies including NovoCure and Molecular Partners. The potential buyer of Chelsea also stands out for his philanthropic workbeing one of the people who donates the most in the world through its charitable foundations with assets of more than 1,500 million euros.
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