As announced Wednesday by L’Equipe and confirmed by RMC Sport, Paris FC will be bought by the family holding company of the Arnault family and the Red Bull firm. Passionate about football and fierce supporter of PSG, Antoine Arnault is at the heart of this project.
PSG has been warned, a second big club is arriving in Paris. According to information from L’Equipe confirmed Wednesday by RMC Sport, Paris FC will be bought by the family holding company of the Arnault family, the third largest fortune in the world, which will enter into exclusive negotiations next week to acquire the majority of shares in the current leader of Ligue 2. To lead this revolution which should change the landscape of French football, we also find as a (minority) partner of choice the Austrian firm Red Bull, juggernaut of energy drinks.
A regular at the Parc des Princes
The common ambition is clear: to conquer Ligue 1 in the short term, to the top of the L1 table in the medium term, and, surely one day, to compete for European places. At the heart of this project, we find Antoine Arnault, 47 years old, one of the five children of billionaire Bernard Arnault, the pope of luxury. Passionate about football and fierce supporter of PSG, accustomed to taking his place in the presidential stand at the Parc des Princes and friend of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Antoine Arnault has long dreamed of investing in a club with a philosophy well anchored in a region.
A lover of romantic football, he likes the atmosphere of stadiums in the north of France with a strong popular identity such as RC Lens, Lille, even Valenciennes, which was recently for sale. Owner of all the major global luxury brands (Dior, etc.) with LVMH, he personally, with his brothers and sister, intended to invest in a human project. The opportunity from Paris FC presented itself to him and he therefore seized the opportunity. According to our information, Antoine Arnault would only take over as president of the Parisian club in two years.
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Five years ago, it was on the side of AC Milan that his name was mentioned by the Italian press around a possible takeover of the Rossonero club. He himself cut short the rumors via a message posted on his personal Instagram account: “Dear AC Milan fans. We have the greatest respect for your magnificent club, its values, its fantastic history, but we do not “We have never been in contact with anyone at the club and have never been interested in investing or acquiring it.”
