Source: Daily_Mail
Will Portsmouth's Arab tycoon follow up on plan to sign Messi and appoint Maradona as chairman?
Sulaiman Al-Fahim has never been one to rein in his ambition and recently revealed he would love to take over a club, install Diego Maradona as chairman and watch Lionel Messi marauding down the wing.
With reports linking him to the purchase of Portsmouth, one has to ask whether he will now follow through on the ambitious plan.
His open talking of transfer targets put an end to his hopes of becoming Manchester City chairman after he had helped to negotiate their purchase for the Abu Dhabi United Group last autumn, leading him to go off and find his own project.
Now it appears his own personal train set is on England's south coast.
In March he revealed his vision for close links between teams in Europe and South America in a bid to secure cheap talent for the future.
And the 31-year-old believes Maradona, currently Argentina's head coach, would be the ideal figurehead for such a move.
'I'm a fan of Diego Maradona,' Al-Fahim told Dubai news agency DPA. 'I don't know if Diego Maradona can be a good coach. I think he has to be the chairman of a club and have the right to choose and buy players.
'In Napoli he started from zero and built the club (as a player). He has the quality to change football teams.'
Al-Fahim said friends had asked him to buy another club, with Chelsea and Liverpool mentioned. But he admitted he would rather buy someone smaller, claiming his people were 'working on this'.
The club would be 'a European one, small... smaller than Manchester City'. Portsmouth by any chance?
