His name is Sergey Lomakin, he is 51 years old, he is Russian but has a Cypriot passport and a personal fortune of 1.7 billion dollars, which puts him in 1,951st place in the Forbes ranking of the richest men on the planet.
The latest international rumors – released by Corriere dello Sport – show him interested in Udinese, a club that has been in the hands of the Pozzo family since 1986.
According to the Italian sports newspaper, Lomaquin has already contacted the Pozzo family (which also controls Watford, in England) to begin negotiations.
However, according to another newspaper, Messaggero Veneto, the Pozzos would not like to retire from football and especially from Udinese.
Instead, they prefer to accept a partnership for the development of the club in the future, placing themselves as guarantors of the project, as happened in Bergamo with Atalanta where the Perkasi family remains in charge, despite the entry of the American fund La Dea by Steven Paliouka. .
Eastern Europe’s response to the CFG
Lomakin’s name is not new in the world of football. In the recent past, the New York Times named him “Eastern Europe’s answer to the City Football Group”referring to the network of clubs around the world led by Manchester City.
Lomakin currently controls RFS Riga (Latvia), Paphos (Cyprus) and Rodina Moscow (Second National). The businessman has a residence in Cyprus (which allows him to avoid being blacklisted like other Russian businessmen), but he actually lives in the Buji Khalifa tower in Dubai.
His main activity is retail trade and he is the founder of Fix Price, a discount chain with around 4,000 locations in Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Latvia and Uzbekistan.
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