Gidi Lipkin and Guy Ben Ziv
Betar Jerusalem players (Radad Jabara)
Nir Barkat, the former mayor of Jerusalem, is once again trying to help and save Betar Jerusalem. Barkat is working behind the scenes to form a group of American-Israeli businessmen in order to take the group from Moshe Hogg, ONE first learned. Also involved are Shai Yaakov, who was at Hapoel Afula, and Joshua Jacoby, who came to Israel especially about a week ago to negotiate and we have already published his candidacy to purchase the club.
Barkat, who was previously involved in a number of intersections helping the team, received a request from the team’s fans to come and help her as a loyalist of the club. Barkat, as it turned out, last week hosted representatives of all the team’s fans from all sectors at his home. As a mayor, Barkat at the time refused to meet with representatives of the La Familia organization.
Fans say that at that meeting Barkat said: “You have to show that you are turning a burden into an asset. “Betar has the largest audience, but you have to show the change,” he told fans: You are the key to change. “
The fans promised at the meeting to support the group, and since then there have been many conversations with investors, American-Israeli businessmen who are supposed to take the group along with the fans. Barkat wants to set up a new body to take the team, when at first it will be small just to save the team and give it breathing air.
In the second stage, when the team’s fans see that they have indeed changed, then they will be able to sell the team to someone who has a lot of money to return the team to the main stage of Israeli football. Betar says that Barkat has dozens of talks, including today to bring the matter to fruition.
At the same time, Betar estimated the outline’s chances of being implemented at 70%, when we mentioned earlier in ONE about the negotiations that Barak Abramov is conducting for the acquisition of Betar Jerusalem. It should be noted that Barkat is involved in the whole matter as a trustee Not as a businessman, nor as someone who puts sixty money in a group.
