Real Madrid Proposes Selling a Stake to Gauge Club’s Valuation

Real Madrid is willing to let an external investor take a stake in the football club, a move that would help the Spanish sporting giant better assess how others value it, Chairman Florentino Pérez said on Sunday.

Europe’s most successful football club, nick-named Los Blancos for the white kits the players wear, will create a new unit to house “a minority shareholding of 5%, or something like that, to know what the club’s value is,” Pérez said during the club’s annual general assembly. “That’s the clearest and most convincing way of doing it,” he said, adding that the alternative would be to go public, which the club doesn’t wish to do.