6 October 2025 …
Milan Mandaric: Former Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday owner dies aged 87
Mandaric took control of his father’s engineering business in the Serbian city of Novi Sad at the age of 21.
Five years later it was one of the largest firms in Yugoslavia and on a collision course with Marshal Tito, country’s communist dictator.
Tito denounced Mandaric as a “capitalist traitor” when the entrepreneur took his family to Switzerland.
Mandaric spent a year there, desperately trying to get his cash out
