Twelve years after an appearance in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund, Malaga seems to be back after a descent at the third level of Spanish football. After winning promotion last summer through the play-offs, Malaga is in a good position to consolidate herself in Segunda this year.
It seems that they can be set for instability in the coming months, with a majority shareholder Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani who allegedly wants to sell his 49% interest in the club. At the beginning of the week he tweeted: “They thought nobody would speak. They thought it was buried. It is not. It is starting now. Justice for Malaga.”
Shortly thereafter it was reported that Qatar Sports Investments, the company led by Nasser al-Khelaifi, who owns Paris Saint-Germain, is considering a takeover in Malaga. Now Marca says that Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the conglomerate led by John Henry who owns Liverpool, are also considering investing in Malaga.
As reported by Marca for the first time, FSG is one of a number of interested parties and they have chosen the market to make an investment in a club with 'History, tradition and growth potential'. They are linked to Bordeaux, recently relegated to the third level of French football and also looked at other parties in Spain.
The same exhaust valve says that they have visited various clubs in the past year, including Elche, Levante, Espanyol, Getafe and Real Valladolid. Malaga, however, was one of the more recent cases and FSG was in February in the club's training facilities to evaluate the potential of the club.
It seems that Malaga will not have a shortage of lovers if they end to be sold. Los Boquerones will be desperate for a more stable period than the past decade, which was a lot of boom and bust. Sometimes it seemed that the club could end in administration.
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