The Chairman of League Management Company, Shehu Dikko, on Monday said the company may adopt the German model in running league clubs in the country.
Dikko told sports writers in Kaduna that it was important to initiate a model that would make teams sustainable and bring about stability in their management, funding and control.
According to him, the LMC need to create stability in the clubs in view of recent history, which had seen great teams go under because their owners could not continue funding them.
He said: “Right now, we are seeing great teams that are privately-owned like Giwa and IfeanyiUbah.
“They are doing very well, but we don’t want what happened to big teams in the past like Concord or Iwuanyanwu Nationale to repeat itself.
“We are thinking of introducing the German model, where each team has at least 50 per cent community ownership, where members of the community have a say in the team.”
Dikko added that if members of the community are direct stakeholders, they would not allow such teams to go under.
He said the model would also encourage fans attendance during matches, as community members would be the number one fans of the teams.
This, he added, would enhance the clubs’ gate-takings and open up other sources of revenue.
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