Red Bull want to buy a football club in England. The Austrian-based energy drinks firm are on the look-out for a suitable club, with Anglophile coach Ralf Rangnick, sporting director of Red Bull Salzburg, heading the search.
As well as current Austrian league leaders Salzburg, Red Bull already owns clubs in Germany, New York, Brazil and Ghana. The company’s sporting assets also include two Formula One teams: Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso.
Red Bull want to buy a football club in England. The Austrian-based energy drinks firm are on the look-out for a suitable club, with Anglophile coach Ralf Rangnick, sporting director of Red Bull Salzburg, heading the search.
As well as current Austrian league leaders Salzburg, Red Bull already owns clubs in Germany, New York, Brazil and Ghana. The company’s sporting assets also include two Formula One teams: Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso.
Apparently Red Bull want a team to take into the Champions League. It is the only market they have not reached yet. Ideally the club they buy would be in the London area, but both Everton and Liverpool interest them too because it would not take much to get them to that level. Liverpool are not for sale, but Everton have been seeking investment.
Perhaps a little surprisingly, they have looked at the Championship, but come to the view that you can spend fortunes there and not make any progress. It is a more economic way of buying a club, but there are plenty of well-funded teams competing for promotion and it does not bring the kind of instant high profile that Red Bull evidently want. Let’s just hope they do not want to add ‘Red Bull’ to the name of any club they buy.