When Todd Buhly bought Chelsea for $5.32 billion a few months ago, that sum made Chelsea the team in the history of the sports world. A little later came the purchase of the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion, making it the second most expensive team. Last night (Thursday) reports in the USA said that there is a new candidate for the most expensive sports team in history, for an amount that dwarfs its two predecessors.
In the USA it is said that the owner of the Washington Commanders, Dan Schneider, has reached an agreement on the sale of the team to a purchase group that includes, among others, the owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, Josh Harris, and the former basketball player, Magic Johnson. The amount in question, about According to reports in the United States, it is no less than 6 billion dollars, 680 million dollars more than the sale of Chelsea and 1.35 billion more than the sale of the Broncos.
The Commanders were founded in 1932 and since then have won 5 championships – 2 before the merger of the NFL and AFL and three more during the Super Bowl era. In May 1999, Schneider purchased the group from the previous owners and he did so for only 800 million dollars. This is a profit of 5.2 billion dollars from Schneider’s point of view.
Dan Snyder has agreed to sell the Washington Commanders for $6 billion to a group led by 76ers managing partner Josh Harris and including Magic Johnson, per @Sportico
It would be the highest price ever paid for a sports team. pic.twitter.com/xJDlSKSQyW
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