US investors to begin talks to buy Roma

Negotiations were set to start this week for the sale of Serie A side Roma to a group of US investors, Italian media reported Wednesday.

Boston International Group (BIG), an investment management firm with worldwide interests in energy and development, last week expressed interest in buying the capital city club.

BIG will hold talks with Italian bank Unicredit, who chose BIG among five bidders as the global investment bank Rothshild acted as advisors.

Unicredit is one of the creditors of Italpetroli, an oil company owned by the Sensi family, who have controlled Roma since 1993 with two thirds of the club's shares.

The bank began looking for new investors in July, after Italpetroli agreed to place the team on the market to allay the company's debts.

Unicredit set a value of around 150 million euros (205 million dollars) for the Rome club.