A member of the Cambodian royal family, passionate about France and football, has made a colossal takeover offer for ASSE.
So far kept quiet, the AS Saint-Etienne sale case suddenly caught fire on Saturday night. The Parisian indeed reveals that the Prince of Cambodia is positioned to recover the Forez club, on sale for months, but which has not seen any concrete offer since then. The Ile-de-France daily reveals that Norodom Ravichak sent a check for 100 million euros to the KPMG bank, which manages the club’s buyout and checks the solvency of any buyers. Norodom Ravichak is the grandson of King Sihanouk, who has never hidden his love for France, he who was close to General de Gaulle. The Prince of Cambodia, who divides his time between France, where he was notably Ambassador of Cambodia, and Phnom Penh, is also interested in sport and dreams of offering himself a monument of French football.
Ligue 1: Saint-Etienne soon under the Cambodian flag?
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The offer was in any case well received, and the current leaders will respond to it or initiate discussions early next week. There is still a good chance that, if the offer is confirmed, it will be taken very seriously as Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo are sellers. In any case, Norodom Ravichak would have the ambition to remake the Greens a stronghold of French football. Without necessarily having the financial means of PSG of course, but ASSE could benefit from the financial contribution of an owner who, like Frank McCourt at OM, knows that he will never be able to win ‘money and will especially have to invest a lot to help ASSE to go up the slope on the sporting level.