Jiří Šimáně (74) was at the rescue of Slavia. It was also thanks to him that the Prague unit did not go bankrupt in the middle of the last decade and later found a strong partner in the form of the Chinese investment company CITIC Group. However, he left Slavia in 2016 after disagreements in the club’s management. Now it seems that he could return to the first league scene in Mladá Boleslav. According to the website infotbal.cz, the 34th richest Czech Republic is seeking to acquire the 51 percent share currently held by Josef Dufek.
Šimáně is said to have already approached the key partners of the Central Bohemian club to make sure that their support would not wane with his arrival. It is mainly about the Mladá Boleslav town hall and the Škoda car company. If the deal were to take place, the portal infotbal.cz reports that the value of the majority share transfer should be around 100 million crowns.
According to Forbes magazine, the property of the 34th richest Czech Šimáně is worth approximately 13.1 billion crowns. In 2015, the 74-year-old businessman helped save Prague’s Slavia from bankruptcy, in which he then held the position of chairman of the board of directors. However, he resigned from this post in April 2016. He has not been involved in football since then. David Trunda connects his work there and his potential entry to Mladá Boleslav. He currently acts as the general manager of the club from the city of automobiles. He also held this position in Slavia during the Šimáně era.
He helped Jiří Šimán save Slavia from collapse, but quit at his own request in April 2016 after disagreements in the club’s management #transfers
Jaroslav Tvrdík’s tweet is legendary: “We were supposed to have a scheduled meeting with Jiří Šimán on Tuesday. I found the resignation in my email at 3 p.m…. pic.twitter.com/p6K9xcMSqX
— Football transfers (@infotbal) January 17, 2024
The majority owner of the Prague club was the Chinese investment company CITIC Group until December 2023. That’s when Pavel Tykač acquired the majority share, whose assets are estimated at 183.3 billion crowns. Liberec also informed about the change of owner. 31-year-old businessman Ondřej Kania has an option to acquire a majority stake in the North Bohemian club.
Dynamo České Budějovice is also looking for a new owner, which is to be helped by an English company with Nigerian representatives of FOOTIFY to gain partners. Another foreign owner was also attracted by the second division Vyškov. The businessman with Cameroonian roots, Kingsley Pungong, was replaced with a 99 percent stake in the club by the investment group Blue Crow Sports Group, which owns, for example, the Spanish second division team Leganés.
The article was originally published for Livesport News.
2024-01-17 12:04:30
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