Bruges is for sale

The largest shareholder and president of Bruges FC, Bart Verhaeghealong with other owners, is looking for a buyer for the football club.

“We are strategically studying the best opportunities on the market. For now, there is nothing concrete,” the club said in a statement in which it neither confirmed nor denied the information from the sports broadcast. Sporza of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT.

This program indicated that the current owners of the club distributed a dossier to potential buyers from the financial world, in which they indicated that “after a decade in the presidency, Bart Verhaeghe and the ownership group is ready to embark on other activities outside of football.”

71.89% of the club is in the hands of the company Grizzly Sportswhich belongs to Verhaeghe, Vincent Mannaert, Jan Boone, and Peter Vanheckewhile the remaining 23.26% is controlled by the US investment fund for two years Orkila capital city

The current president of witches He came to the position in 2011 and a year later he transformed it into a public limited company in which he became the owner of 15 million euros.

He witches18 times winner of the Belgian league, is currently fourth in the final stage for the title, with no chance of becoming the champion.

This season, the team recorded a historic start to the campaign with the Belgian carl hoekens as a coach, qualified as first in the group in the league of Champions Leagueleaving the competition with Atletico Madrid.

But the coach was fired in December after an early departure from the Belgian Cup and replaced by English scott parkerwho lasted only 67 days on the bench and was dismissed after the team’s exit from the Champions League against him Benfica for a resounding global result of 7-1.

In the latter part of the season, the Norwegian led the team Ronny Deila.