Returning to the Premier League this season, Sunderland have made an impressive start to the season and currently sit in an extraordinary fourth place in the table, seven points behind leaders Arsenal. Owned by Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, son of former OM owner Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the English club has undergone many changes in recent years and a meteoric rise. Asked about his choice to buy Sunderland, after the sale of the Marseille club by his mother Margarita Louis-Dreyfus in 2016, son Kyril gave the reasons for his investment.
“Maybe it’s my experience of being part of a club-owning family in France. We even saw in 2016 that structural problems with TV rights, etc., were coming. I dreamed of going to England, I always saw it as the best championship in the world. One day, out of nowhere, the opportunity came during Covid, I didn’t think for long and I jumped into it”he said, before adding: “As there was Covid, there was no possibility of visiting the club. If I had attended a League One match, I probably wouldn’t have bought at the end because it was still a shock to go from Olympique de Marseille, who were playing the biggest matches in Ligue 1, and find yourself in a stadium of 1,000 people with a pitch not in very good condition. » Ultimately, the bet more than paid off for Kyril Louis-Dreyfus and the Black Cats.
