League Championship side Charlton Athletic Owner Roland Duchatelet "sold leading Belgian club Standard Liege to Italian Bruno Venanzi" for an estimated €30M ($33M), according to Samindra Kunti of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Duchatelet, a Belgian businessman who added Charlton to his network of European football clubs last January, "is a majority shareholder at FC Carl Zeiss Jena in Germany, UIjpest FC in Hungary, and AD Alcoron in Spain." Duchatelet "also has an interest in Belgian club Sint-Truiden." Venanzi, an Italian businessman, "is a current vice president at Standard Liege." He "co-founded energy company Lampiris." He bought Standard in '11 for €41M (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 6/26). CITY AM reported Duchatelet argued that things became "complicated" at Standard, where his ownership was met with "intense fan opposition following the sale of star players." Despite selling Standard, Duchatelet "reaffirmed his interest in football," according to Belgian outlet L'Avernir, which quoted him saying, "I will stay in football. But not Belgian football" (CITY AM, 6/24).
