Sunderland shareholder Juan Sartori has taken on a bigger role at French top flight club AS Monaco. The Uruguayan politician and businessman holds a 30 percent stake in Sunderland and is a non-executive director at the Stadium of Light, where he is seen as seen as a friend and ally of owner Kyril Louis-Dreyfus.
But Sartori is also on the board at Monaco, where he has been vice-president since November 2021, with his father-in-law Dmitry Rybolovlev already holding the role of club president. One of Monaco's other director's Oleg Petrov, recently resigned from the board and as Monaco's representative within the European Club Association (ECA), which is an organisation that represents the interests of football clubs within each of UEFA's member associations.
Sartori has stepped into the vacancy left by Petrov and will now act as Monaco's representative on the ECA. Sartori’s wife - and Rybolovlev's daughter - Ekaterina Sartori Rybolovleva is a long-standing Monaco board member and is also a vice-president of the club.
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Sartori came on board at Sunderland in 2018 in the wake of Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven's takeover, with the South American taking a 20 percent stake. Louis-Dreyfus originally bought 41 percent of the club in 2021, but last summer saw a major change behind the scenes.
Methven sold his five percent stake and walked away, while Donald sold off 15 percent to leave himself with just 19 percent of the club, with Louis-Dreyfus increasing his holding to 51 percent and Sartori upping his holding to 30 percent.
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