{"id":83170,"date":"2026-09-09T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/83170\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:51:28","slug":"messi-to-buy-100-per-cent-of-valencia-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/83170\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi to buy 100 per cent of Valencia football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday 09 September 2026 11:40 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tWednesday 09 September 2026 11:41 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2285095513-e1788950241821.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Lionel Messi, sweat-soaked and emotional, clenches his fist in his Argentina jersey after a victory.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tLionel Messi is set to acquire 100 per cent of a Valencia football team\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lionel Messi is set to acquire 100 per cent of a Valencia football team as the football superstar looks to expand his portfolio in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Barcelona player is reportedly close to agreeing a complete takeover of CD Eldense, a second-tier Spanish football team based in the autonomous community of Valencia\u2019s Elda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish outlet Marca reported that Messi has agreed a deal in principle having earlier this year purchased a 100 per cent stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/why-messi-taking-100-per-cent-stake-in-ue-cornella-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Catalonian team UE Cornella<\/a>. He also holds a direct equity option in his Major League Soccer team, Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement means Messi joins both Cristiano Ronaldo and Gerard Pique as club owners in Spain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/table\/_\/league\/esp.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LaLiga 2<\/a>. Long-term rival Ronaldo holds a 25 per cent stake in UD Almeria through his CR7 investment vehicle while Pique\u2019s Kosmos Holding owns 90 per cent of FC Andorra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Messi joins contemporaries in ownership<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is part of a wider trend of footballers going into club ownership, with the likes of Kylian Mbappe having a stake in French club SM Caen, Vinicius Jr in Portugal\u2019s FC Alverca, N\u2019Golo Kante in Belgium\u2019s Royal Excelsior Virton and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Swedish team Hammarby IF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronaldo\u2019s former teammate Luka Modric owns some of UK Championship side Swansea City, alongside Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart, while four former Bayern Munich stars were part of a recent takeover of Portuguese side Estrela Amadora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CD Eldense is currently owned by Colombian businessman Juan Carlos Trujillo and his investment group, which also has holdings in Club Llaneros FC in his home country and Swiss side Bellinzona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 2021 and 2023 CD Eldense achieved three promotions in three seasons before a relegation back to the third tier in 2025. They were promoted again last season and are yet to win in their opening four matches of their 2026-27 LaLiga 2 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should the deal be approved, Eldense will join the likes of Cornella, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/messi-signs-new-inter-miami-deal-with-1bn-stadium-project-in-final-stages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Inter Miami and<\/a> a wider hotel and tech investment firm in Messi\u2019s investment portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/liverpool-in-record-300m-deal-as-turkish-airlines-replaces-standard-chartered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Liverpool in record \u00a3300m deal as Turkish Airlines replaces Standard Chartered<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tRelated Topics\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday 09 September 2026 11:40 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Wednesday 09 September 2026 11:41 am Lionel Messi is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1093,30827,313,30826,85,30420,332,273,314,18085,30828,95],"class_list":["post-83170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-business","tag-cd-eldense","tag-football","tag-football-finance","tag-laliga","tag-laliga-2","tag-lionel-messi","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sport-business","tag-ue-cornella","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}