BRISBANE Roar owners the Bakrie Group are ready to share their football “vision” by selling a stake of the three-time A-League champions.

Roar chairman Chris Fong has revealed to The Courier-Mail that the club is about to start talks with a host of potential investors, from both Australia and abroad.

“I can’t mention names, but we’ve had individuals, we’ve had consortiums (and) we’ve had very big groups wanting to come in,” Fong said.

“We’ve had overseas interest, but now we’ve had a lot more Australian interest, and our preference is to sell a share to an Australian consortium or a partner.

media_camera Roar have enjoyed plenty of success over the last few seasons.

“That could be somebody who has a love of football and has broader connections in the business community and we can leverage on that.”

After getting approval to sell from Bakrie Group chairman Nirwan Bakrie, Fong cancelled plans to return to Indonesia base for Christmas and will instead remain in Australia until at least the end of the next month to meet with interested buyers.

“We might even do a deal sooner rather than later,” Fong said.

Indonesian conglomerate the Bakrie Group first bought 70 per cent of Roar in September 2011 and acquired full ownership in February the following year after buying the remaining shares from Football Federation Australia.

“This goes back to our initial buy when we bought 70 per cent and the remaining 30 was going to be sold to a local partner. We’re revisiting that now,” Fong said.

media_camera Former captain Matt Smith with Chris Fong and Thomas Broich.

“It’s about sharing our vision of growing football. If a partner came in now, it would be a very good deal because the club is very close to breaking even.”

Fong said the Bakrie were initially losing $2 million a year in running Roar, but was confident the club would run at a profit sooner rather than later.

“We’ve got the loss down significantly now, but at the same time we’ve grown the club. We’ve got more than 11,000 members now,” he said.

“We have a very big football department – the club’s big.

“We can go that extra leap forward. It’s that time to really bring a strategic Australian partner in to help us.”

Fong also vowed that money the Bakrie Group received from the potential sale would go back into the Roar rather than its Jakarta empire.

“We have a strategy we want to stick to in growing the club,” he said.

As well as Queensland football it seems, with Fong open to the idea of FFA offering a licence to a second Brisbane-based club when likely expansion takes place in 2017.

“We would love a derby situation (and) it would be great if we could get another team into Suncorp Stadium because that just helps everybody,” he said.

“We’re very supportive of another club in Queensland but it needs to be done in a sustainable way.

“We don’t want another club to go in and collapse.”