Trent Alexander-Arnold reportedly wants to become the next owner of FC Nantes in one of the more surprising stories to break on Friday.
L’Equipe reports that the player’s father, Michael Arnold, is supporting his son’s venture via a London-based investment firm.
The French outlet goes on to claim that the takeover bid in question is worth £83.8m. This follows prior meetings with the club’s owner, Waldemar Kita, in the prior summer.
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Nantes, for their part, have reportedly denied that such talks are taking place with the Reds’ No.66.
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Could Trent Alexander-Arnold buy a Ligue 1 club?
If reports from France are on the money, it seems such an outcome is a genuine possibility.
Kita, who is understood to be somewhat unpopular with the club’s fanbase, is open to selling and there looks to be serious cash behind the move.
It’s perhaps unsurprising, in a way, that we’ve seen Alexander-Arnold embark on another investment adventure after having thrown his lot in with Alpine’s F1 team.
There’s no question, though, that it’ll be slightly strange thinking about Trent the generational fullback AND football club owner!
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I’ve been living in Nantes since 2009 and though I font follow Ligue 1 much, I know a fair bit about the local team. First thing to say is they are a club that has been massively underachieving for many years, due to lack of investment by Kita, who is incredibly stingy. They have a decent history, a few French premier league players of yesteryear once played here, including French national coach Didier Deschamps! Sadly they’ve been rubbish for most of the last 20 years, mid-table to relegation fodder mostly. Any half decent player they manage to find leaves for bigger clubs, as it is with most French clubs.
But by far the best thing about the club, who play in Norwich colours and are also nicknamed “The Canaries”, is the supporters. Loud, proud and fanatical, singing, chanting and throwing bog rolls like it’s the seventies again, the “la Brigade Loire” are passionate and cherry, and its great and inspiring to watch live, often better than watching the footy these days! It’s the kind of club Jurgen would love to coach, put it that way, and this TAA rumour filled me with hope that finally this club could get back it’s feet with real investment again and maybe, just maybe, Klopp could weave his magic here. We all have to have dreams, right?
I Hope Kita sells ASAP and if Trent ad Co want to buy they’d find themselves with a sleeping giant in France with a support that might even rival what he’s used to back home, but with a French touch!
Allez!