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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani businessman is planning to buy an English professional football club that has won six Premier League titles in collaboration with Saudi and British investors, reported a media outlet on Thursday.
Javed Afridi, who owns Peshawar Zalmi, an HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise, confirmed his interest in the deal after Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, said he wanted to sell Chelsea in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
Apart from developing business interest in Pakistan’s popular Twenty20 cricket tournament, Afridi owns a successful business in the local consumer electronics industry. He has also benefited by operating in the country’s automobile sector.
“Javed Afridi confirmed while talking to BBC Urdu that he is trying to secure the ownership of Chelsea [football club] in partnership with investors from Britain and ��������Ƶ,” said the Pakistani chapter of the BBC World Service in a recent report.
International media reported that the situation in Ukraine has also affected the world of sports, with British sports and culture minister Nadine Dorries telling parliament that her country had “tolerated the investment of Russian kleptocrats” in its football clubs for too long.
Afridi’s Peshawar Zalmi is one of the most popular PSL franchises that qualified for tournament finals four times in the past.
Zalmi won the PSL title in the second edition of the contest which took place in 2017.