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🇫🇷 Trent Alexander Arnold is not Buying a French Football Club
Last week a report surfaced from L'Equipe saying Trent Alexander-Arnold has made a move to purchase French Club Nantes. Today, we debunk such news.
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Today, we discuss Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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Last week a report appeared online saying that Trent Alexander Arnold had submitted a bid for French Ligue 1 club Nantes via an investment fund set up with him and his father.
The report was rather detailed too.
L'Equipe claimed the prospective takeover bid:
Was for £84m (€100m), including £67m (€80m) guaranteed plus a seller credit of £17m (€20m)
The deal was also accompanied by various bonuses of up to £34m (€40m)
They also added that talks were set to continue over the coming days, and that Alexander-Arnold's father and Waldemar Kita (Nantes owner) first spoke to one another last summer before meeting in Geneva face-to-face more recently
I found this story interesting as it wasn’t corroborated by anyone in the Nantes team nor from Trent’s camp himself.
It also wasn’t confirmed by anyone at Ligue 1.
In addition, there was no sign of an Investment Fund run by Trent and his father existing online before this report came out. Trust me, I looked!
So I was perplexed.
What’s funny is a few days later in an interview with Presse Ocean, Nantes owner Kita said some revealing things on the takeover:
"This is all bullsh*t! Where does that come from? How do you expect a serious man who wants to purchase a club to use a journalist? Trent Alexander-Arnold? But I don’t even know him! He told me his father was involved in finance and that they have players as well as agents. I’ve never done any video conference with anyone, ever. It’s nonsense. How can you even in this business, with such sums?"
Yikes.
It continued…
“When I sold my company (Vivacy), no one was in the know, not even the personnel. That’s business. It’s a ploy to hurt and disrupt. It’s not serious.”
So this got shut down pretty quickly.
But where did this report come from? Can something so specific be so false?
Separately, does Trent have an investment fund?
Quite a few questions to ponder here and I will be watching very closely.
Regardless of where this takes him, Trent is not to be overlooked. Trent’s investment portfolio has already started to grow. He invested in:
Therabody in 2021
Alpine F1 Team via Otro Capital last summer
His contract is up next summer at Liverpool and so far he has not chosen to renew. This means he is set for a lucrative deal from whoever he chooses to sign with.
He won’t be short of suitors either.
I imagine a sizeable signing on fee and a healthy weekly wage in a five-year deal for the England international. On top of his ÂŁ5.2m/year deal with Adidas he signed earlier in 2024.
Trent is someone we will be seeing a lot more of on this platform in the future.
I’m sure of that.
I don’t cover American sports traditionally but I thought this clip from Bob Myers was particularly funny.
Bob had an excellent run as the GM of the Golden State Warriors. In January 2024, he was hired by the NFL's Washington Commanders as an advisor and consultant to owner Josh Harris.
At the Boardroom Summit he explained the difference he sees between NFL and NBA players with a particularly interesting story from star player Klay Thompson.
What a life.
See you next week.