I will start with Wenger's words at the end of the AGM.
"There are five trophies," the Arsenal manager told the club's shareholders.
"The first is to win the Premiership, second is to win the Champions League, third is to qualify for the Champions League, fourth is to win the FA Cup, and fifth is to win the League Cup.
I will start with Wenger's words at the end of the AGM.
"There are five trophies," the Arsenal manager told the club's shareholders.
"The first is to win the Premiership, second is to win the Champions League, third is to qualify for the Champions League, fourth is to win the FA Cup, and fifth is to win the League Cup.
The second biggest Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov has made an interview which seems to be a peace offering to Stan Kroenke in which he declares that he has never petitioned for a place on the Arsenal Board, but just wants the club to stop selling their best players and so increase their chances of winning a trophy.
A couple of AA stalwarts attended the AST meeting last night and since we didn't get back
until late, this brief résumé will serve to start debate rather than be a detailed
deconstruction of the proceedings.
First let me say that the attendees were (at least those who spoke ) level headed and articulate
but there was plenty of disagreement all the same.
A couple of AA stalwarts attended the AST meeting last night and since we didn't get back
until late, this brief résumé will serve to start debate rather than be a detailed
deconstruction of the proceedings.
First let me say that the attendees were (at least those who spoke ) level headed and articulate
but there was plenty of disagreement all the same.
There are a lot of Arsenal supporters upset over Robin van Persie's statement, which revealed he
wasn't going to sign a contract extension with the club. There were a few shareholders who weren't
very happy either, especially Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri.
Usmanov and Moshiri, who are the club's second-largest shareholders with a combined 30 per cent,
said they have deep reservations about Stan Kroenke, the majority shareholder, and the direction
the club is going.
The Robin van Persie story took another twist today as Arsenal's second largest shareholders,
Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri, accused Arsenal's board and owner Stan Kroenke of selling
the club's best players and replacing them with cheaper ones.
Usmanov and Moshiri own just under 30% of Arsenal through the investment company Red & White,
but they have not been allowed by Kroenke to join the board.
The Robin van Persie story took another twist today as Arsenal's second largest shareholders,
Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri, accused Arsenal's board and owner Stan Kroenke of selling
the club's best players and replacing them with cheaper ones.
Usmanov and Moshiri own just under 30% of Arsenal through the investment company Red & White,
but they have not been allowed by Kroenke to join the board.
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis is due to meet with around 300 Arsenal Supporters' Trust
(AST) members at Emirates Stadium this week and it looks like from the questions submitted by AST
members, that Gazidis will be on the hot seat.
According to the AST web site, Arsenal and Gazidis have agreed to cover the following
topics:
The club's footballing expectations for this coming season, 2012/2013, and whether qualifying
for the Champions League is the extent of the club's ambitions
The new Elite Player Performance Plans being introduced and what this will mean for youth
development at Arsenal
The future of the Arsenal Fanshare scheme and club support to promote continued plurality in
the ownership through supporter shareholders
What progress Ivan Gazidis feels has been made in his first three years at the club and an
update on the club's five year strategic plan
What lessons have been learned from last summer's transfer window to make sure things go more
smoothly and successfully this year, and the position regarding Robin van Persie
How the club will drive commercial income aggressively in the short term given the long-terms
tie-ins on stadium naming, kit rights and shirt sponsorship and the need for more tertiary and
overseas deals
The club's view of Financial Fair Play regulations and what plans we have should they have
little impact
Given that Arsenal now has two billionaire investors owning over 96% of the club, is there a
case for them investing funds to put us on a competitive footing before FFP starts to bite?
350 members of various Arsenal supporters' organisations and shareholders will attend a Q&A
evening with the club's CEO Ivan Gazidis in the north end of the stadium's Club Level next
Wednesday evening, after Coldplay have packed up and moved on to their next venue. At this time of
year, since before the move to the new stadium, such an event has been organised by the Arsenal
Supporters Trust for their members.
When Stan Kroenke first bought a substantial percentage of Arsenal, by purchasing ITV's 9.9%
share of Arsenal back in 2007, Chairman Peter Hill-Wood made his infamous quote ‘we don't want
his sort here', in reference to a perceived takeover bid in the making from the American
billionaire. Naturally, Hill-Wood's view may have been coloured by the fact that it was David Dein
who had brought Kroenke to the shareholders' table, with his subsequent dismissal from the board of
directors due to his going behind the backs of his colleagues in a failed attempt to effect a take
over in the Highbury House boardroom.
Does a billionaire owner/major shareholder have a moral obligation to spend big on his football
club? And, should owners of a football club be allowed to make a profit? For a while now, I have
been reading comments by a number of ‘Kroenke-critical' AA'ers, who believe that he should be
spending a lot more of the club's and his own money and, to a certain extent, I can see where they
are coming from.
Arsène Wenger has never seen so much pressure from his own fans. His ability to manage this
Arsenal team is being questioned, and according to some, he is losing his grip on the modern
game. But is he the only one to blame?
The year 2006/07 saw a major introduction into the Arsenal unit.
This post originally appeared on our Arsenal blog, but I thought it was worth covering here.
There are some mind blowing quotes from Arsene Wenger in Tuesday's Daily Mirror.
Arsene Wenger is quoted as talking about how much he likes Lille's £30m-rated Eden Hazard, but
he basically says that Hazard is too expensive for Arsenal.
Morning all, I woke up a bit late this morning so I'm going to have to fly through this.
I guess the main talking point this morning is yesterday's AGM. There's a fairly in-depth report
over on Arseblog News, but even that tells you that a lot was said but not much of it was of great
interest.
London club Chelsea lost their bid to buy back the freehold of their Stamford Bridge Stadium
after an extraordinary meeting between the club and the Chelsea Pitch Owners Association (CPO)
failed to convince 75% of the shareholders on the club's plans for the piece of land.
The proposal would have ultimately led to the Blues erecting a 60,000 seater stadium on the
piece of land.
Today wasn't exactly the end-all day of days for Chelsea to buy back Stamford Bridge.
Nevertheless, it will be seen as a roadblock in the club's attempt to move forward with a new
stadium. For those unaware, the club did receive the required 75 percent of votes from shareholders
at Thursday's general meeting of Chelsea Pitch Owners that would have allowed the club to purchase
back the freehold and thus move it to a new stadium in the very near future.
According to the Guardian, Blues bigwig Bruce Buck, in speaking about the club's failure in
their bid to buy back the freehold of Stamford Bridge, went slightly off script in relation to the
weekend's big London derby.
Peter Hill-Wood, Stan Kroenke and Stan Kroenke's hair take their seats at the
Emirates
Silent Stan Kroenke finally spoke to Arsenal's shareholders at the club's annual AGM in London
today. The US billionaire said: "(Arsenal) has tremendous management at the top, a wonderful
manager on the pitch who makes great decisions in regard to personnel, and a tremendous following
with the supporters.
As usual the yearly Arsenal shareholders meeting comes around, and there have talks of mass
protests after Arsenal's disastrous start to the season, but now the Gunners have started to string
some wins together, Arsene Wenger is not worried about facing the (usually) tough audience on
Thursday. He said: "I do not meet with the [.
In the week that will have shareholders debating the future and with twitchers spotting the rare
appearance of Silent Stan, we must have some good news to report. Well we have to believe that we
will make the top four after making it 5 wins out of 6 apparently. The fact that there was a
Carling Cup and two Champions league fixtures in there seems to have escaped everyone's
attention.
Chelsea have made an offer to buy the site of Battersea power station with a view to building
"one of the most iconic football stadiums in the world".
It's no secret that Chelsea have been looking for a new stadium. Stamford Bridge is too small
compared to Old Trafford, the Emirates and even the Nou Camp, meaning that Chelsea's rivals make
millions more from each home game than Chelsea does.
Significant news this. Chelsea today announced that it has, alongside property development
partner Almacantar, submitted a bid to purchase the Battersea Power Station site with a view to
developing a 60,000-seat football stadium on the property.
Significant news this. Chelsea today announced that it has, alongside property development
partner Almacantar, submitted a bid to purchase the Battersea Power Station site with a view to
developing a 60,000-seat football stadium on the property.
Chelsea's offer to purchase the Stamford Bridge land freehold from CPO shareholders is a topic
that has understandably fractured the club's support over the past few days. In this video, Jason
Cundy offers his thoughts on the subject to Chelsea TV.
I'm still up in the air on the issue, if you were wondering.
Chelsea has called Stamford Bridge home since 1905, but it could be looking to secure a new
place to play after recent actions by the club's executives.
The club does not own the pitch and stands at the stadium, which are instead have been owned by
the Chelsea Pitch Owners since 1993 in an effort to make sure that the grounds wouldn't be bought
by property developers, according to the BBC.
Yeah, this is pretty big news. Chelsea announced today that the club has extended a proposal to
Chelsea Pitch Owners (CPO) shareholders to buy back the freehold land on which the football stadium
at Stamford Bridge sits.
So the plan to move to a new stadium is further along than we anticipated.
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Well, I guess we were wrong and Ajax is going with nuclear option #3. In a move to end the
bickering and feuding that has gone on at Ajax in recent years between Ajax board members and
former player legends, Ajax's governing council has asked all 5 board members, including Cruyff, to
resign. Any board member that refuses to resign will be voted out, most likely, by shareholders.
This is highly interesting. Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, according to an insightful piece in
today's Independent, purchased 100 Chelsea Pitch Owners shares at £100 each in April
2011. This entitles him to the maximum 100 votes in the upcoming apparent make-or-break meeting on
27 October.
The club has revealed plans to delist from the AIM stock market to help raise funds to increase
stadium capacity. The intention to take the club private is the clearest indication yet that Spurs
are going ahead with the £400M Northumberland Park development following the defeat in the Olympic
Stadium bid.
The club has revealed plans to delist from the AIM stock market to help raise funds to increase
stadium capacity. The intention to take the club private is the clearest indication yet that Spurs
are going ahead with the £400M Northumberland Park development following the defeat in the Olympic
Stadium bid.
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TGIF-thank Gooner it's Friday, returns after the International break, and with the amount of
tension in the air that befits a real crisis at Arsenal. Crisis on the field through injuries,
crisis in the stands with fans divided, and crisis in the Boardroom as the prospect of a Boardroom
struggle becomes more possible than probable.
Racing Santander's administrators have announced that the club has a total debt of almost
€48m, a figure over €10m in excess of the one presented when the Cantabrians applied to enter
bankruptcy in July.
The difference was explained by the fact that investment company Western Gulf Advisory (WGA),
owned by Indian businessman Ahsan Ali Syed who purchased the club in January, 2011, is shown
amongst the list of creditors as being owed €8.
