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Last week, Forbes announced it's list of the 10 Richest Men in Football. None of them are
footballers. Though playing the game is spectacularly well rewarded, players earn peanuts next to
these guys. Top of the list is a Russian gentleman, but not the one you're thinking of. He's number
two. Number one is Oleg Deripaska [.
We had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. For some minutes the old man seemed too much
exhausted to speak. 'Not long ago,' said he at length, 'and I could have guided you on this route
as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me [...]
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SKY -Football rich lists: Find out the wealthiest players and owners
Sky/Simon Ward- Football's Richest Club Owners
..1: Lakshmi Mittal (Queens Park Rangers)
No-one really expected the title of wealthiest club in Britain to shift a few miles across west
London – certainly not to Loftus Road, anyway.
The Uzbeki billionaire with the shady past continues to build his share at Arsenal, a precursor to
an eventual takeover bid.
Howard Zinn: "In a society held together by falsehood, knowledge is an especially important
form of power".
It is a general rule that the establishment don't feel that they are able to trust us, and we don't
feel that we are able to trust them.
The establishment goes for surveillance.
ESPNsoccernet is reporting that Red and White Holdings Ltd. has increased it's share of Arsenal
F.C. to 24%, making the group the second largest shareholder behind Daniel Fiszman who has 24.11%.
The lock-down agreement preventing a takeover bid expires in April. Cue the Darth Vadar Theme
(David Dein enters) If you're new here, you may want to [.
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is reportedly sounding out one of Arsenal's biggest
shareholders, Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, to sell her stake in the club. The oligarch is the
Gunners' biggest shareholder with a 24.9 per cent stake, and should he convince Bracewell-Smith to
sell her stake in the club, it would give him a major boost in [.
It's the end of the work week for most and as it winds down, Arsenal prepares for another match,
this time away against Bolton. Never an easy place for us to play in, it'll be a tricky fixture no
doubt. Before I get to a preview, there's a lot of chatter around these parts about Arsenal.
First up is the announcement that Stan Kroenke is joining the board at Arsenal.
Peter Hill-Wood reckons Arsenal should make do without a foreign "sugar daddy". The
Gunners' chairman has seen the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea taken over by billionaires,
while Uzbek-Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov - a major shareholder - is thought to been on buying the
Gunners outright. However, Hill-Wood does not value foreign benefactors as a long-term [.
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has increased his stake in Arsenal by 1% to take his tally to
24%. His investment company Red and White Holdings bought bought shares, roughly half a per cent,
from one shareholder in a single trade and this move has multiplied the speculation that the
Russian billionaire is trying to buy [.
When you talk about Arsenal's future, it is usually in measured, nuanced terms much like its
soccer. Unlike Man City's buyout which has vaulted it to the position of the richest club in the
world, the lockdown agreement makes an Arsenal takeover unlikely at least till October 2009. But
the Man City takeover has opened up cracks in the iron clad constitution of the Arsenal board.
