Dennis Bergkamp, Henrik Larsson, Phillip Cocu, Dirk Kuyt and Ronald Koeman are part of a consortium trying to buy an English club.
Which club is unknown, but it comes just under a year since they tried to takeover another side in League One Wycombe Wanderers, but missed out.
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In 2019, Henrik Larsson and Dirk Kuyt were close to becoming Southend United’s new managerial team.
They have been described as wanting to buy a club on the cheap, which makes it good timing due to the struggles many are enduring from the coronavirus pandemic.
Rob Jansen, an executive at Wasserman Media Group Rob Jansen, is the brainchild behind the takeover, according to the Mirror.
The company are said to be the second largest sports agency in the world, worth an estimated £3.2billion.
Jansen said: “We are in the waiting room, as we call it. In this crisis, the asking price of some clubs will be lowered.
“At the same time the internal struggles at these clubs will get bigger.”
Jansen revealed the consortium also missed out another takeover at an English club recently.
He said: “Recently we were very close to a deal. I am not going to say now which club that was, but at the very last moment we were beaten by a foreign investor.
“That was very disappointing.”
Jansen has been in the game since the 1990s overseeing Bergkamp’s move to Arsenal, represented Larsson during his Celtic and Manchester United career and was behind Koeman’s departure to Barcelona as well as Kuyt’s transfer to Liverpool.
All of those ex-footballers are wanting to come together, use the staggering amounts earned from their careers to buy an English club.
After reading that Bergkamp, Larsson, Cocu, Kuyt and Koeman are trying to buy an English club, fans gave their thoughts…
Rochdale it is then…….
— Castle Rock Brit (@CastleRockBrit) May 3, 2020
@portvale are a good family club?
— steven hollinshead (@s_hollinshead) May 3, 2020
Bristol Rovers apparently
— Dan (@PaddonDJ) May 3, 2020
@CAFCofficial is available please come help us out
— Dave Payne (@DavePayno4) May 3, 2020
Please buy Arsenal
— Maeze (@maez1234) May 3, 2020
HAMMERS
— paul way (@paulway6) May 3, 2020
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