Real Madrid star Luka Modric set for shock Swansea City involvement | OneFootball

The Welsh side are set to get one of the footballing greats on board.

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric is set to become a minority owner of Swansea City, according to Fabrizio Romano.

Swansea are one of the few EFL clubs that are renowned for their style of play. There's an expectation that the team will play a brand of football that is easy on the eye. There are few players in footballing history that make the game look as easy as Modric has for the past decade-and-a-half, making this reported matchup a seemingly perfect one.

Other EFL teams have well-known figures as part of their ownership. Birmingham City have NFL legend Tom Brady. Leeds United have a host of current athletes invested in them. Wrexham are co-owned by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. None of them have one of the active greats of the game on board, though, and that is exactly what Swansea are set to get.

Luka Modric set to become minority owner of Swansea City

According to Romano, the Croatian midfielder is set to purchase a stake in the Championship side. The 39-year-old, who still regularly plays for Carlo Ancelotti's Real side, has agreed the deal with the Swans.

The move will not affect his playing career, as per the Italian journalist. He is set to face Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg between the two sides on Wednesday evening, when Real will have to overcome a 3-0 deficit at the Bernabeau to get past Modric's former rivals.

Swansea are currently majority owned by Andy Coleman (the club's chairman), Brett Cravatt & Jason Cohen. They hold a 77.4% stake in the club. Other listed shareholders also include Nigel Morris (14.04%) and the Swansea City Supporters Society Ltd (7.59% - including its protected 5.00% ownership position), as per the club's ownership statement.

It was announced that Coleman, Cravatt, Cohen and Morris bought the remaining shares owned by Steve Kaplan, Jason Levien, Jake Silverstein and all their partners in November.

Kaplan and Levien agreed a deal to take over the club in 2016 that put Swansea's value at around £100-110 million, as per the BBC. Now Modric looks set to come aboard, with Romano stating that the midfielder's investment into City is one "for the present and the future."

Swansea should soon receive unseen benefits from Modric agreement

The Ballon D'Or winner getting involved with the Swans doesn't mean that he is going to use his earnings from his playing career to bankroll the club and launch them into the next stratosphere. What he will bring is eyeballs, the eyeballs of fans and potential investors.

Having a legend like Modric on board will bring more attention to the club, and there will be greater scope for outside investment, if needed, because people will want to be associated with him and what he is doing.