Kinga Strogoff has been trying to buy Polish football club Lechia Gdansk since October.
Despite winning the country’s second division last season, the club is facing financial difficulties and is sat in 17th place in the top Ekstraklasa league.
Kinga has pledged to turn the club’s fortunes around and make it the the third-largest team in Poland.
Her firm Second Street Iron & Metal Co., Inc. has made multiple approaches to the club’s current owner Paolo Urfer.
The Trump fan, 43, who shared a photo of her and the US president to her 2.1million followers, said: ‘For me, there is nothing more important than building a lasting legacy, and Lechia Gdansk fits that vision very well.
‘Poland is currently one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe, and the imminent spectre of Lechia Gdansk’s collapse really breaks my heart.’
The beauty influencer promised to return the club to its Polish roots by ‘standing up for a strong core, values and victory.’
Kinga said she first contacted Urfer in October last year with an offer of investment but did not hear back.
She claimed Lechia Gdansk’s owner was willing to talk in December but then he changed his mind and decided not to sell the club before the summer.
Kinga added: ‘I have no idea what his current position is now, but it seems that there is no plan to sell at the moment.’
Lechia Gdansk, which was founded on 7th August 1945, faced financial problems before in the 1990s.
The club collapsed into sixth tier of the Polish football in 2001 due to those problems but made a remarkable return to the second division by 2005.
The club then re-established themselves as a top team by winning the Polish Cup and Super Cup in 2019.
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