The facts show that Usmanov is the right man to lead Arsenal to success

Arsenal’s inability to hold on to Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri last summer will be repeated this year with Robin Van Persie, Theo Walcott and Alex Song all joining the exodus. This is a simple by-product of Arsenal’s failure to show ambition to win trophies by investing in top class players.

Stan Kroenke took over as owner of Arsenal and immediately announced that Arsene Wenger’s policy of buying young (or cheap) and selling at a profit will continue as long as he is in charge, despite the obvious fact that this policy WILL NOT bring success to the club.

The board at that time had a choice between Kroenke and Alisha Usmanov, the fantastically rich Russian billionaire who is listed as the 35th richest man in the world, and just as shrewd a businessman as Silent Stan.

Usmanov was ignored by the board but refuses to give up his shareholding. In fact he has increased it this season and still intends to try and takeover if he ever gets the chance. But why do I believe that Usmanov would have done a better job than Kroenke?

Here is why. This is how Usmanov saw the way the club was going and his plan to make Arsenal even more profitable. His comments (in July) were in response to a question of why he wanted to be on the Arsenal board. He said: “If the role of a board member is to oversee a trophyless period, while making significant personal profits and asking fans to pay inflation-busting ticket price increases then, no, I would not want to be on the board.

“If instead it is to try to deliver sustained success, to increase your personal investment in the club, to help develop the commercial position and to ensure the fans have a say in the running of the club then, yes, I think I certainly have something to contribute.

“In terms of doing things differently, let me give you a very clear example. Arsenal has all of its major commercial contracts coming up for renewal in the next couple of years.

“It’s no secret that to maximise the value of those you want to have success on the field and be winning trophies. To do that you need to invest now in building a winning team. This is simple commercial logic. Whether it comes to pass, we shall see.”

Simple commercial logic, with the side-effect of breeding future success and happy fans. Wouldn’t you prefer to have that man in charge that a silent partner that just wants to line his own pockets? All I can hope is that Kroenke suddenly realises that his investment will be devalued if he stays in charge and relinquishes control to Usmanov this summer. Before it is too late for the non-silent Russian to make a difference….

http://justarsenal.com/the-facts-show-that-usmanov-is-the-right-man-to-lead-arsenal-to-success/12226

RedEyesWhiteBeard wrote:hopefully he takes over, but stan has money too, maybe wenger is just not using it.

Stan only cares about profit what dose he care about Arsenal winning trophies.

If he cared he would have paid our debts off.

Americans dont care about Football.

Need to solve a problem? Let's chuck hundreds of millions at it and see if that'll work!

Usmanov says the things the fans wants to hear. It's typical PR stuff that gets deperate fans on his side. However, the fact of the matter is, if Usmanov wanted to buy those shares, he could have. He's not the 35th richest man or whatever for nothing.

Kroenke has been in charge for a short amount of time. Just like fans gives players and managers time to do their stuff, the same needs to happen with the guys running the club.

The worst thing of all this is that these fans calling for Usmanov are more than likely the same fans who sit there and bash the likes of Chelsea and Man City for "selling their souls" to oil-rich owners and "buying" their success. Now they want to same to happen to Arsenal. They're a whole bunch of hypocrites.

This isn't me saying everything is fine but I for one do not see selling the club to some oil-rich and untrustworthy person as a viable or sustainable solution to our problems.

To be in the CL since 1997 with a net spend of £7m odd is unprecedented. But with a little bit of spending, we might have won a trophy or 2.

We aren't asking for £100m to be spent every summer. Just money spent on top-class players.

Bottling the Mata and Cazorla deals was the final straw.

Mata £18m, Cazorla £17m, Cabaye £4.3m, Ba Free, Rami £6m, Parker £5m....list is endless

Samuelj29060 wrote:To be in the CL since 1997 with a net spend of £7m odd is unprecedented. But with a little bit of spending, we might have won a trophy or 2.

We aren't asking for £100m to be spent every summer. Just money spent on top-class players.

Bottling the Mata and Cazorla deals was the final straw.

Mata £18m, Cazorla £17m, Cabaye £4.3m, Ba Free, Rami £6m, Parker £5m....list is endless

Well said Sam.

We dont have to spend crazy like other clubs all we want is to buy the right player, we have always been one or 2 players away from winning, EPL or the CL.

There are players that we could buy that wont cost crazy money.


Why should we buy these guys when we have, Denilson, Bendtner,Rosicky, Diaby.

Mata £18m, Cazorla £17m, Cabaye £4.3m, Ba Free, Rami £6m, Parker £5m

Im with SAM and Raptor.

Every season, we are short one or two players.

Instead of bringing a fresh quality player, Wenger hypnotizes us with graduates, former gunners, etc.

Thats just sad.

highburied wrote:Im with SAM and Raptor.

Every season, we are short one or two players.

Instead of bringing a fresh quality player, Wenger hypnotizes us with graduates, former gunners, etc.

Thats just sad.

And now legends.

Remember Guillem Balague in the summer? Confirmed Arsenal missed their chance to get Juan Mata for £18m buy out clause

http://t.co/BqLkUi5n

Unfortunately, I think that this has as much to do with Wenger as it does the board or owner.
The way that Wenger talks, to me at least gives me the impression that he feels as though it is his personnel mission to disregard what every other team in professional football does. He does not feel as though players should make as much. He does not feel as though players should cost as much. So he will not take part in it. He will do things his way no matter what. Almost with an arrogance about it.

We are the Denver Effin Nuggets of the Premiership ...enough said (I called it when he took over, and got blasted for this).
The parallel?
We sell our stars like them (carmello, Camby)
Buy aging stars for small stints to fill the long term void (Iverson, Billups)
We are seen as a "cultured club", and play beautiful football, (Again direct link with how the Nuggets play)
Top 4 is the actual goal (Nuggets are quadrennial underachievers in the playoff with mello... you can imagine what sort of situation they are in now)
We have got a richer fan base ( again, just like Denver)

So why are there glaring similarities? Both the teams are led by Silent Stan.

Arsenalfaithfull wrote:We are the Denver Effin Nuggets of the Premiership ...enough said (I called it when he took over, and got blasted for this).
The parallel?
We sell our stars like them (carmello, Camby)
Buy aging stars for small stints to fill the long term void (Iverson, Billups)
We are seen as a "cultured club", and play beautiful football, (Again direct link with how the Nuggets play)
Top 4 is the actual goal (Nuggets are quadrennial underachievers in the playoff with mello... you can imagine what sort of situation they are in now)
We have got a richer fan base ( again, just like Denver)

So why are there glaring similarities? Both the teams are led by Silent Stan.

Don't forget the St.Louis Rams.

Why am i seeing Rosicky's name among Denilson, Almunia etc.?

That's made my blood boil tbh

I do not believe that he has done anything special with his other sports teams. Actually he is kind of an absent owner.

for anyone that supports kroenke..

take a look at his NBA and NFL team, if you think he cares then get ready to wake up