After nearly two years of shadow boxing, the camps of Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov are about
to start to the real battle for control of the Gunners. Arsenal's 4th largest shareholder, Lady
Bracewell-Smith is looking to sell her 15.9% share and his retained the U.S. based brokers
Blackstones to find a buyer.
The other day on the Guardian website a rather innocuous article appeared it
gave a topic that is currently being overshadowed some air... the ownership of the club.
Ever since last October, Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith has been employing a broker to sell her 15.9%
of the clubs shares.
The intrigue on the Arsenal board continues to occupy the news, as the Russian billionaire Alisher
Usmanov has spent £10,500 each on yet another 37 shares. This has come on top of the news from
America that "Silent Stan" Kroenke has revealed that he is going to buy out full control of the St
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Good day to you, I was hoping that we could get away from the Cesc stuff for one day but
transfers are complicated things.
There's the will of a player, the will of a club, the will of the agent of the player and
whatever agenda he might have to further. In today's Mirror there's a story about how Cesc decided
to leave because of Peter Hill-Wood's comments a little while ago.
The situation in England right now is that big Premier League clubs are owned by big foreign
billionaires. Fans of Manchester United and Liverpool can protest and complain about their owners
all they like, but they don't have a say in what those billionaires do with or to the team. As much
as Red Devils fans "Love United, Hate Glazer", the red headed American owns 100% of shares and is
in charge.
Good morning, more snow again yesterday but good news everyone! It's only -8 this morning. Bad
news though, I seem to have some kind of cold. Dennis giveth, Dennis taketh away.
Further to yesterday's blog about Nicklas Bendtner The Mirror reports on a cheeky Lazio bid to
bring him in on loan in January while The Sun says 'pfffshaw, Bendtner's going nowhere'.
Firing at anyone who disses his team mates
No matter from where we come from or what our background are, there will always be leaders in
any society. For a football club, that is the club captain. This is the one person whom the whole
squad of players look up to. The one person who epitomizes the values of the club.
