Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
Has sold his shares in Arsenal to a Russian fella for £75m.
Arsenalski 
|
Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
|
Just heard
LMAO 
|
Hammer
Member
Registered: 11th Feb 04
User status: Offline
|
Hmm interesting 1, beginning of the end for Wenger?
|
Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
|
Nah, I think Wenger is part of the woodwork and any potential buyer would be foolish to get rid of him.
IMO.
|
Hammer
Member
Registered: 11th Feb 04
User status: Offline
|
Nah i think anyone would be foolish to get shot, i was meaning that's Wenger lost his biggest ally on the board, will he now walk?
|
Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
|
I think he has a lot of loyalty and commitment to Arsenal.
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
John Gregory to take over and field an all british premiership side again?
|
dave17
Member
Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
|
Seems its was only 17.5%? Im not too worried......
|
Hammer
Member
Registered: 11th Feb 04
User status: Offline
|
David Dein personally sold a stake of 14.8% to a group co-owned by afore mentioned Russian of which David Dein is the chairman.
Doesn't mean too much shake up at the moment tbh as it's just the same share passed hands but it's the long term threat of a takeover bid that will split opinion. Dein thinks foreign investment is tantamount to success in this day and age whilst Wenger, amongst others, thinks they should be self sufficient.
|
Tom
Member
Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
User status: Offline
|
Read article about it this morning. Seems he only has the interests of the club in mind. He reckons he can get the fans 15% (ish) shares as the supporters club like him, then, as the chariman of red & white (the name of the consortium jobby) mount a takeover bid with the 30% minimum required.
|
Tom
Member
Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
User status: Offline
|
BTW hammer, I've heard wenger is a supporter of dein's ideas although that's probably just been confused with his dinner meeting the other week, wenger is quite fruggle anyway isn't he 
|
Hammer
Member
Registered: 11th Feb 04
User status: Offline
|
They're both friends but publically anyway Wenger dislikes the idea of a sugar daddy so to speak whilst dein believes foreign investment is the only way to be challenging on an even keel with the Chelsea's etc.
|
Ben J
Member
Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
User status: Offline
|
It means dein has a way back into Arsenal now which can only be a good thing!
|
