Berlin--Austrian energy drinks giant Red Bull on Sunday denied reports in the British media that it is poised to buy English second-division club Leeds United.
"Another involvement in football is not currently planned," Red Bull's head of global football Oliver Mintzlaff told German news agency DPA.
On Friday, English tabloid the Daily Mirror reported that Red Bull had offered £60 million ($89.5 million, 82 million euros) to buy Leeds, with talks said to be "at an advanced stage".
Leeds' controversial Italian owner Massimo Cellino, who is currently serving an English Football League ban over tax evasion in Italy, on Friday told the Yorkshire Evening Post that Red Bull had made an undisclosed bid to Eleonora Sport, which has a 97 percent stake in the Championship club.
"There is an offer. I didn't know about it, but I spoke just now with Giampaolo Caboni, one of the directors of Eleonora Sport," Cellino told the English newspaper.
"He said Red Bull has made an offer for the club. The shareholders will have to think about it. I don't know what they will do."
Red Bull currently backs three football clubs: Major League Soccer side New York Red Bulls, German second-division outfit RB Leipzig and current Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg.
AFP
