The name of Sergio Ramos has appeared again with great force in the purchase of the majority shareholding of Sevilla. So much so that the majority of the entity’s largest shareholders value the purchase offer presented by the world champion with Spain in 2010 as the main and most important of those that have reached the entity. This is how he advanced it the Chain Being on Sunday night. In this way, the shareholders have signed what is known as a letter of intent by which they commit to dealing exclusively with , closing the door to other avenues. Two American funds have already fallen by the wayside since the largest shareholders made the decision to sell last September 2025.
Now, with the door open to the camero’s offer, the group that represents Sergio Ramos will carry out an exhaustive audit of the state of the entity’s accounts. This process could last at least two months and then the final negotiation would begin. Among the shareholders contacted by Ramos’ group is not José María del Nido Benavente, Sevilla’s largest shareholder, who is still unaware of the offer. Yes, they have accepted this exclusivity to negotiate with the camero group, the Carrión family and the so-called Utrera Group, together with the family of former president Roberto Alés. Between the three of them they control 38% of Sevilla’s total shareholding.
Sergio Ramos would undertake the purchase in the company of his partner Martin Ink, a fairly recognizable Five Eleven Capital executive. Five Eleven Capital is a business consortium based in Madrid that is exclusively focused on the football sector. According to some sources close to the operation, he presented an offer of around 450 million euros to take over ownership of Sevilla. This amount is flexible and is subject to various variables depending on the result of the in-depth analysis of Sevilla’s accounts. According to the president of the entity, José María del Nido Carrasco, the net debt of the entity is 66 million euros. In addition, the club presented losses of 50 million in the last shareholders meeting on December 15 with respect to the 2024-25 academic year. Some sources, however, place Sevilla’s real debt at more than 200 million, which, for example, has a total credit with the investment bank Goldman Sachs of 178 million euros.
Sergio Ramos traveled to Seville on January 15 on one of his private planes to present his offer in person to Sevilla’s large shareholders. He met with the representative of most of them in a hotel and presented in a very complete way his financial offer to buy the club, as well as the subsequent sporting and social project he has for the centenary Andalusian club, where he grew up as a footballer.
He traveled accompanied by his brother and representative, René Ramos, as well as Julio Senn, his lawyer. Sevilla’s major shareholders left pleasantly impressed by the offer presented by the Spanish football legend and his team. However, at that time it was negotiating with an American fund. Negotiations with this fund have ended and Sevilla’s main purchase option.
The large shareholders of the Andalusian club control a total of 103,467 shares. They belong to four great Sevilla families. In order of importance, the Del Nido family, with 28% of the shares; José Castro, current vice president, and the so-called Utrera Group plus the Alés family, with 23%; the Carrión family, with 15%; and the call American Group which controls approximately another 15%.
Sevilla has been immersed in a delicate institutional and sporting crisis for three seasons. Last Saturday, in the preview of the , which ended with a 2-1 victory, the most radical fans demonstrated against the management of the club’s current board of directors. Within about two months, Sevilla’s ownership may change after the current shareholders took control of the club in 2000.
