Board Sells - Kroenke Takes Control Of Club!!

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:49 pm

Spot the Difference Competition:

2011
"Mr Kroenke has shown himself a man who values and respects history and traditions of this very special club we cherish."

2007
"Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. Our objective is keep Arsenal English, albeit with a lot of foreign players. Americans are buying up chunks of the Premiership football clubs and not because of their love of football but because they see an opportunity to make money. They know absolutely sweet FA about our football and we don't want these type of people involved."

Difference?
An extra Â£4.7m in Hill-Wood's bank account.......

augie · Post by **augie** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:52 pm

How the fcuk can that cigar munching ungrateful stupid bastard make 4.7m from less than 1% of shares ??

Post by **flash gunner** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:52 pm

MK Gould wrote:Spot the Difference Competition:

2011
"Mr Kroenke has shown himself a man who values and respects history and traditions of this very special club we cherish."

2007
"Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. Our objective is keep Arsenal English, albeit with a lot of foreign players. Americans are buying up chunks of the Premiership football clubs and not because of their love of football but because they see an opportunity to make money. They know absolutely sweet FA about our football and we don't want these type of people involved."

Difference?
An extra Â£4.7m in Hill-Wood's bank account.......

What a low life hypocrite Hill-Wood is

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:54 pm

He's scum. Subhuman scum.

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:54 pm

augie wrote:How the fcuk can that cigar munching ungrateful stupid bastard make 4.7m from less than 1% of shares ??

Because grandaddy Sam gave him 500 for nothing as a 1st birthday present

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:54 pm

The cow has been well and truly fattened since the move, which was never designed to further the cause of Arsenal FC but to line the pockets of Hill-Wood, Fiszman, Friar, Lord Harry of Peckham, Sixty Nina and French fries Keswick.

We've always prided ourselves on being the Bank Of England club but when it comes down to it our board are as greedy, selfish and self-serving as every other captain of industry in this country.

augie · Post by **augie** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:56 pm

flash gunner wrote:
MK Gould wrote:Spot the Difference Competition:

2011
"Mr Kroenke has shown himself a man who values and respects history and traditions of this very special club we cherish."

2007
"Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. Our objective is keep Arsenal English, albeit with a lot of foreign players. Americans are buying up chunks of the Premiership football clubs and not because of their love of football but because they see an opportunity to make money. They know absolutely sweet FA about our football and we don't want these type of people involved."

Difference?
An extra Â£4.7m in Hill-Wood's bank account.......
What a low life hypocrite Hill-Wood is

Wonder what kind of excuse those *word censored* amongst us that have supported him and his cronies for the last few years will come up with now

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:57 pm

Mr FINSBURY PARK GOONER wrote: and before you start slagging of the Hill-Wood Family, Arsenal as you see it today would not be what it is, if it was not for them. show a little respect and grace.

tch tch Augie, we have a lot to be grateful for

Bergkamp-Genius · Post by **Bergkamp-Genius** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:00 pm

The funniest part is the ''our objective is to keep Arsenal English''

and then the after thought of ''albeit with a lot of foreign players'' and then he missed and a foreign manager and a foreign sponsor..

I think what he actually meant was he didn't want a dirty foreigner telling him what to do or kicking him out on his arse, but now he has found a quality foreigner that will allow him to stay and feel important...

USMartin · Post by **USMartin** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:05 pm

mikeyb772001 wrote:Martin , so in your expert opinion (yes I said it) do you think there will be any change with transfers or any change within staff

I'm sorry not to get back sooner but as others have answered it appears as though there will be little or no change at all, but as I noted last night or this morning earlier or something, I wonder if we may not say some of the available cash reserves pit into play now as unless Mr. Kroenke already has selling the club at a higher share price as his goal would seem a like a possibility as the current Board would gain nothing from from sitting on them as i susepct was why the club sat on them befiore(net debt being one of the best tools with which to attract investors and keep a share price higher).

Still it could well be that nothing changes simply to try and keep people from noticing that it only changed after the millionaires were able to cash in. After all they could have sold to Stan Kreonke back in 2007 even before we heard of Ruslan Usmanov and the share price then would have been about 6500 a share if that even. If we start spending suddenly it would make it look like quite the coincidence how little we spent in those is years and how much higher the share price went.

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:06 pm

Bergkamp-Genius wrote:The funniest part is the ''our objective is to keep Arsenal English'' and then the after thought of ''albeit with a lot of foreign players'' and then he missed and a foreign manager and a foreign sponsor..

I think what he actually meant was he didn't want a dirty foreigner telling him what to do or kicking him out on his arse, but now he has found a quality foreigner that will allow him to stay and feel important...

Nail. On. Head.

USMartin · Post by **USMartin** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:18 pm

augie wrote:I cannot understand the hysteria from some who almost guaranteed that the takeover would be debt levereged Fact is that any half decent businessman would look at the takeovers by hicks/gilette and the glaziers and seen that such a takeover cannot work.

Have to say that this takeover if it goes through as detailed in the official statement feels me with sadness Where is the much needed revamp ? It looks like it will be more of what we have seen for the past few years except with a different name as the majority shareholder. There will be no change in the boardroom, no change in the manager and in all likelihood no change in transfer policy. You have to ask yourself as a fan what is the point in all this ? We wont even get the return of DD as encouragement to lift the mood around the club

I cannot believe that phw would be kept on as chairman It absolutely defies belief

As I said to mikeyb my sense is that this is all to cover the fact that our lack of spending the past several years coincided oddly enough with the share price going from under 5000 a share back in 2003 to near 12000 now and that from 2006 on it went from just 6000 to just under 12000.

I might be wrong but it makes sense to me becauise the one thing our Board wants to protect now is its reputation and this would be the one way to do so by trying to make the lack of spending and the massive share o=price increase and resulting personal profits look irrelevant. If they spend those reserves suddenly - which I still hope is possible - it can immediately raise the question of why weren't they spent sooner and well look at the money made by our Board of supporters like us since 2008 really and there is your answer.

USMartin · Post by **USMartin** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:23 pm

TeeCee wrote:Herd - I realise you're not interested in the ticketing system at Arsenal, why would you be? you don't go to games, you just sit behind your keyboard wanking furiously at your own diatribe.
So according to reports, you are wrong about the leveraged debt then? What a surprise, a guy who never actually goes to support his team spouting off shite on an internet forum. You and US Martin should arrange a same sex marriage immediately so you can celebrate the only way you know how, with a bit of mutual man masturbation. You are truly a mug of epic proportions, and you'd be better off concentrating on daytime TV which is more your level. Cheerio.

Oh my get caught in what you are and you turn into a nasty little bitchy animal don't you.

Yopu a stooge for the Board whose blind loyalty i8s such that you prefer the Board fuck every Gooner yourself most of all just so long as you can pretend how unique and special they are.

The Arsenal way now is fuck the supporters and you are right there helping them because they are the Board and better than all of us together and therefore you must support them and lie for them. Tool.

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:23 pm

selsdon wrote:The cow has been well and truly fattened since the move, which was never designed to further the cause of Arsenal FC but to line the pockets of Hill-Wood, Fiszman, Friar, Lord Harry of Peckham, Sixty Nina and French fries Keswick.

We've always prided ourselves on being the Bank Of England club but when it comes down to it our board are as greedy, selfish and self-serving as every other captain of industry in this country.

This. Disgraceful really. The truth which we've all expected for many years is finally being revealed.

spinney12 · Post by **spinney12** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:24 pm

i have a question not about the take over itself but more about fan movements.

Where does this leave the 'black scarf' movement and 'arsenal fc not plc' movements from this point?

As i see it, its now more a case of when kroenke takes full control of the club both of these movements will basically become static? With the initial goals i see of both groups mainly wanting to see the club achieve more rather than top 4 what now could possibly be done?

I feel all groups like this would need to be put on the back burner for some time to really see the mans intentions in the transfer market and the way the fans are being dealt with.