Daniel Snyder sold the NFL club Washington Commanders. The reasons behind the trade have stirred in the United States.
Owned by the American football club NFL Daniel Snyder an investor-businessman has sold his team by Josh Harris for the group he leads.
Harris is also one of the owners of the basketball NBA club Philadelphia 76ers and the hockey NHL club New Jersey Devils.
The NFL deal is reportedly worth US$6.05 billion. According to the 2022 calculations of the financial magazine Forbes, the Washington Commanders were the eighth most valuable sports club in the world before the deal, with a value of 5.6 billion dollars.
Approval of a new owner of an NFL club requires the approval of the owners of at least 24 other NFL organizations. The sale of Commanders was unanimously supported by the owners, meaning the new owner Harris received the trust of 31 owners.
At the same time, in connection with the trade, the NFL released by Mary Jo White The 23-page investigation ordered Snyder to pay the league $60 million in fines. According to the investigation report, Snyder has deliberately falsified the turnover of the organization he owns, so that the owners of other clubs have been left without the distribution of money intended for them.
The league is its chairman Roger Goodell’s who has been urging Snyder to find a buyer for the club for years.
Information about discrimination and sexual harassment, among other things, has been leaked to the public from within the club. Mary Jo White’s new report alleges that Snyder, among other things, harassed her employee.
The Washington Commanders have also been involved in name disputes. For a long time, Snyder received demands to change the team’s name, as the old Redskins name was considered racist. Snyder was inclined to drop the name in 2020.
After this, the club played for a while without the name “Washington Football Team” until the name changed to Commanders in 2022. However, there have been ambiguities regarding the licensing of the name. The new ownership group said in connection with the deals that they are considering another name for the club.