John Moores

SAN DIEGO — John Moores will close on his purchase of the Nottingham Forest Football Club this coming Tuesday in London, the former San Diego Padres owner said on Friday.

Moores family and friends will purchase 80 percent of the team from the Al-Hasawi family of Kuwait. The deal, for $65.5 million in U.S. currency, will include keeping Al Hasawi as a silent 20-percent equity partner, an arrangement that will eventually fade away as Moores purchases 100 percent of the team.

Moores said this past weekend that he and his long-time financial advisor Charlie Noell have interviewed personnel and will continue to do so for key positions in the franchise, but those decisions are still to be determined.

Moores bought 80 percent of the Padres in 1994 for $80 million. He sold the club in 2012 for $800 million shortly after MLB franchise values began to skyrocket due to the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.15 billion.

The bottom line is improvement, with NFFC clawing back into England’s Premier League and staying there. The club is playing its current season at the Championship level. To that end, Moores said he expects to spend money on players and the management team to pick and guide those players.

“The aspiration is get back to the EPL,” Moores said this past weekend. “We plan on doing what it takes to get there.”