Jürgen Klopp is 'excited' about takeover, says Arnault family

Enough to keep an entire people in suspense. This Wednesday afternoon, Antoine Arnault presented his plan to buy Paris FC. Bernard's son, who will take charge of the current leader of the Ligue 2 championship thanks to his company Agache, detailed the outlines of the collaboration with the Red Bull Group. The famous firm, which notably owns the Leipzig and Salzburg clubs, will then hold 15% of the club's capital by 2027. Appointed Football boss within the Austrian firm, Jürgen Klopp will have a role to play within the capital club.

“So I don't want to speak for him but in fact, when we discussed Jürgen Klopp and I the other day, that's what I felt. But it's quite logical” said Antoine Arnault during from an interview given to RMC Sport. “Finally it is true that when we look at the project as it exists today, there is an anomaly in Paris. The fact of having a single large club, immense certainly, but only one club. We are the “the only big city in Europe to have only one. Most big cities sometimes have two, rather between five and ten in the case of London for example” continues the one who has supported Paris-Saint-Germain since its beginnings. young years.

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The former Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool coach left the Reds last summer, with a job as Germany manager awaiting him. Finally, the one who put the English giant back on the right path took everyone on the wrong foot by joining the Red Bull company. “Yes he is excited. There is both the sporting side which excites him but also I think the side of creating another story, building something else around this great Parisian project if only in in terms of brand building, it's extraordinary, it's super galvanizing to say to ourselves that we will be able, through a magnificent brand, Paris Football Club, to build both sportingly and in terms of development, a global brand. for years to come,” he said. concluded.