HNK Rijeka is set to get a new owner, American billionaire Bill Foley, who already owns several sports clubs in the US and Europe. Damir Mišković, the owner and president of Rijeka, is on the verge of signing a deal to sell the majority of the club's shares to Foley. Foley has been scrutinizing Rijeka's papers for a long time, much longer than usual for someone who quickly gives up on a deal. A kind of confirmation that the deal is about to be realized was the arrival of striker Daniel William Kwabena Adu-Adjei, a 20-year-old Englishman from Bournemouth, one of the many clubs owned or co-owned by Bill Foley. Foley is a billionaire with roots in the financial industry, but his real signature today is in sports. In recent years, Foley has thrown himself into European football. He bought Bournemouth, took control of the French club Lorient, the Portuguese Moreirense, and has a minority stake in the Scottish Hibernian. Foley's vision is to build a global sports holding that will operate on the principle of a multi-club ownership model. Unlike traditional owners, Foley openly talks about synergies: joint scouting, academies, financial stability, and centralized marketing management. Foley doesn't play on emotions, but on numbers. He calculates everything - from return on investment to potential market growth. In Bournemouth, he does the same: investing in infrastructure, stadium, and long-term sustainability. Rijeka in Croatia is not a small club, but looking at the size of the market it comes from, it is somewhere in the range of existing acquisitions. Rijeka is, along with the Scottish Hibs, his largest club in Europe, looking at the significance in individual countries. Of course, not everything is ideal. Critics accuse him of treating sports exclusively as an asset class, i.e. as if it were just a class of property, and fans in Europe often shy away from the American business model. However, Foley claims that passion and business are not mutually exclusive - if the club wins, both fans and investors win. While the Golden Knights are celebrating the Stanley Cup, and Bournemouth has stabilized in the Premier League, Foley is already looking ahead. Rijeka is his new property, a new investment, and we don't see how this could be a bad thing for Rijeka, quite the opposite. And so Rijeka will become part of a large sports holding, which will provide it with better financial stability and wider opportunities. But what this will mean for Rijeka's fans is still too early to say. So we will have to wait and see how the new ownership will reflect on the club.