A new company to manage the balances and strategies of the football galaxy that is head of American entrepreneurs
A platform capable of managing the balances and strategies of the Friedkin football galaxy and to grow the sports wallet with new clubs from all over the world. While in Trigoria continues to treat for the first market blows (with Rios in the front row), in the United States the Friedkin have just announced the launch of the Pursuit Sports. It is a new holding company created with the aim of managing their football clubs more efficiently: Rome, Everton and Cannes. The other goal is to calamite within the club, even football teams from the main North American sports (in recent months there had also been a strong interest in Boston Celtics).
The organization
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As a managing director Dave Beeston, former manager of Clearlake Capital (co-proprietary fund of Chelsea) and Fenway Sports Group, has already been chosen, a reality that controls Liverpool. A central aspect of the Pursuit Sports strategy will be the sharing of technical and strategic resources among the clubs controlled by the group. In this direction, the recent acquisition of Insight Sport, a London company specialized in technologies applied to sport, is also included. Although the purchase price has not been announced, the company is very profitable, with revenues of 332,500 pounds (about 384,000 euros) last year. This is the first reality not directly connected to a team to enter the Pursuit Sports galaxy, a sign of Dan Friedkin’s will to enhance the technological infrastructure to support its clubs and to increase the level of competitiveness at all levels. A thought that came after the recent purchase of Averton and concretized in the last few days.
The press release
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“The launch of Pursuit Sports marks an exciting new chapter in the vision of the Friedkin Group to raise and enhance the world -class sports organizations – reads the press release signed by Dan Friedkin -. Through this platform, we can do more than support our high -level teams: we invest in their long -term success, bringing together all the strength of our global competence, our resources and our search for excellence. Dave Beeston. He is a proven and reliable leader, full of wisdom and experience in the construction of high -performance sports companies. Beaston himself explained the goal of Holding: “The intention was to create a parent company with two objectives: to provide operational excellence, improve the management of the clubs that we currently have and evaluate growth opportunities. When I wake up, I think about how to help Rome, Everton and Cannes to achieve their goals … and at the same time I think about how to grow the company through new acquisitions”. The new CEO has continued by talking about the new extra-realistic goal: “In all honesty, we are focusing on the next step, I would say that it will be in North America and not in football. We are actively evaluating some opportunities in the sports that can be expected. Our goal in the short and medium term are the teams. Sport is the last form of entertainment that is looked at live. We want to be where the spectators are.”
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