It has for long been suspected if Roman Abramovich’s only target in investing to Chelsea was the team’s success in football, but it seems that a club or two could use an owner like him at their charge.
In Germany the financial support for football sides usually comes through big companies who barely care about the team’s prosperity in the game of football. For example, Woflsburg are owned by the German car brand Volkswagen, while Bayer Leverkusen are supported by the chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer.
Those investors are more focused on the money the clubs bring in, rather than the football success. The situation is something the Borussia Dortmund managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke and Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge discussed about on SportBild‘s latest edition.
Most of the clubs don’t have an Abramovich, whose first goal is to win at Chelsea. Most investors want to make money. And where do they get it? The fans.
– Hans-Joachim Watzke, SportBild (SportWitness)
If Abramovich was to sell Chelsea onward, he’d find out the value of the club is much more than it was when he bought it in the first place. That’s the result of all the investing he’s put in the club. Watzke is afraid that the Bundesliga investors aren’t as forward-thinking as the current Chelsea owner, and hopes for more similar investors to the German top-flight.
He thinks that an owner with the same financial status and will to success in football could be a huge threat to Germany’s current league title contenders Bayern Munich and Dortmund, as an owner like Abramovich could make a team like Borussia Monchengladbach a league winner inside the next few years.
