Michael B Jordan appears to be like prepared for the English Premier League after posing in a Bournemouth jersey for the primary time because the $185m takeover earlier this week.
The Black Panther star is concerned in a gaggle led by Invoice Foley – the Vegas Golden Knights proprietor – which have purchased the workforce based mostly on the south coast on England.
And Jordan is clearly excited by his new undertaking. Taking to Twitter with an image of him in a Bournemouth jersey together with his title on the again, he wrote: ‘Honored. See you on the pitch.’
Bournemouth is at present 14th within the Premier League standings, with the season on pause as a result of World Cup in Qatar.
Michael B Jordan posed in a Bournemouth jersey for the primary time because the $185m takeover
Bournemouth is 14th within the standings of the Premier League and performs subsequent on Dec. 20
Bournemouth performs its subsequent recreation within the League Cup, in opposition to Newcastle, on December 20 earlier than the Premier League marketing campaign restarts on December 27 away to Chelsea.
Foley, Jordan’s associate, was at Bournemouth’s slim 2-1 win in opposition to Leicester on October 8 because the ending touches had been put in place to finalize the deal.
And talking after finishing his takeover, Foley was bullish about how issues are going to work on the workforce.
‘I’ve checked out a number of groups over the past two or three years and so they all concerned minority funding and another person is already in cost. I do not like that. I am a dictator,’ Foley instructed BBC Radio Solent.
‘Once I’m concerned, I should be the captain of the ship. I needed to await a scenario the place I might purchase the workforce myself, with my companions in fact, and management the future of the workforce.
‘I’ve all the time mentioned with the Vegas Golden Knights that if there is a mistake made then it is on me. I am going to take accountability and I plan on doing the identical factor with AFCB.’
He added: ‘I inform my restricted companions, and so they know this, there’s nothing extra restricted than being a restricted associate of Invoice Foley.’
Foley takes Bournemouth on from Swiss-based Russian businessman Maxim Demin, who owned the membership for 11 years.
That spell included the Cherries rising up from League One – English soccer’s third tier – to the top-flight within the area of 5 seasons.
Invoice Foley led the takeover and watched Bournemouth play on Oct. 8 within the 2-1 win vs. Leicester
Foley purchased the workforce after trying into how a lot it might price for his personal MLS aspect
Foley additionally instructed the BBC he had thought of beginning up his personal Main League Soccer workforce.
‘I’ve checked out it, I examined it, and I used to be fairly severe about it,’ Foley mentioned. ‘The MLS sadly requires a stadium to be constructed and the stadiums now within the us are costing $600m, $700m.
‘The franchise price itself is I feel $300m. So, you are into it for a billion {dollars} earlier than you actually have a workforce. I assumed Bournemouth was a cut price actually.
‘I am shopping for a Premier League workforce, it is already received a stadium, it is already received gamers and I can enhance it. I could make it higher. So, I do not see us being concerned within the MLS. I am simply not that fascinated with it.’
