Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé is about to become the new majority owner of French second division club Stade Malherbe de Caen, a source has confirmed to ESPN.
His takeover should be announced imminently, the source said, and it will make the 25-year-old the youngest active player to own a professional European football club.
The newly minted Real Madrid player will invest around €15 million via his own Coalition Capital investment fund to acquire 80% of the club’s capital and will also pay off part of the club’s debt.
Mbappé will replace the previous majority shareholder, the American investment fund Oaktree, which bought 80% of the club’s shares back in 2020. The remaining 20% of the capital is held by Pierre Antoine Capton, current president of the club’s supervisory board.
Caen are currently in Ligue 2 after having been relegated from the top flight in May of 2019.
The relationship between the Mbappés and Caen goes back a long way. In 2014, when Mbappé was 13, he almost signed for them before choosing Monaco.
