U.S. businessman James Pallotta looks on before the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Chievo at the Olympic stadium in Rome January 8, 2012. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
ROME (Reuters) - The majority shareholder in AS Roma denied on Thursday that he was in talks with China's second-largest property developer, China Evergrande Group, over the sale of a stake in the Italian Serie A soccer club.
"I have never, ever, ever spoken with Evergrande or anyone else in China," James Pallotta, a U.S. investor and president of AS Roma since 2012, told Reuters. "We are not in talks with anyone."
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