Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani is reportedly set to sell his company Eleven Sports to Len Blavatnik’s DAZN, according to New York Times reporter Tariq Panja. He claims a deal could be concluded as early as this week, though the financial terms of the deal are yet to be discloused.
Radrizzani is the chairman and founder of the international sports broadcaster, which he launched back in 2015. Eleven has channels in several different countries including the UK, Portugal, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Taiwan and Myanmar. Leeds visited the latter for a post-season friendly back in 2018.
It has right to a number of European football’s elite competitions, with the Premier League, Champions League, Serie A, Bundesliga and La Liga among them. According to a list published by Forbes in March 2022, prospective buyer Blavatnik has a wealth of $35.4 billion, which makes him somewhere between the 20th and 33rd richest person in the world.
