Chris Dunlavy

MISSED MILAN GOT THE BUG FOR HIS CLUB

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The LeaguePaper Team
12 October 2025

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

DEALS: Milan Mandaric

MILAN Mandaric was both a ruthless businessman and an old romantic when it came to owning football clubs.
The Serbian-American, who died last Saturday aged 87, never hid the fact that he was in the business of making money.
He bought distressed assets, invested enough to make them attractive, then sold them on for a hefty profit. Whether at Portsmouth, Leicester or Sheffield Wednesday, Mandaric was the undisputed king of the ‘flip’ and never lost sight of his ultimate goal.
But as he once admitted -as if d...

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