Inter owners Suning have not given Goldman Sachs a mandate to sell the club, but they have asked the US-based investment bank to actively search for a partner to invest alongside them.
This according to today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, who report that the Nerazzurri owners met with Goldman Sachs representatives recently and their request was to look for a business partner in order to inject cash and make the club’s financial situation more viable.
Goldman Sachs consultants were at Inter’s Champions League group stage opener against Bayern Munich on Wednesday, and held a meeting with Suning to discuss the strategy and wishes of the Nerazzurri owners.
Things have hardly gotten more straightforward for Suning’s ownership on a financial level, with the failure to hit the net profit goal in the summer transfer window and the collapse of the shirt sponsorship deal with DigitalBits adding to the situation with the need to pay back the €275 million loan from Oaktree by 2024.
However, the owners are still not thinking about selling the club outright, although they could certainly be open to this should the right offer arrive.
Right now, Suning’s priority has been to tell Goldman Sachs to search for new investors to potentially be partners in their ownership of the Nerazzurri, but not to speed up the process of selling the club.
