Le Boss Does A U-Turn

Indeed HG, the board have admitted to Le Boss that a takeover is in the pipeline. I'm still not sure what I think of the takeover, one day I think it'll be great the next I'm not so sure. A statement from Stan Kronke wouldn't go a miss.

thats the same with me simmy, one day i find myself for a takeover and the next ive lost all courage and want things tostay as they are. I need some reassuring from somehwere though !

I think the reason people are unsure is because as you say, there's been no reassurance from Kronke that he will act in the interests of the club should he assume comtrol of the club. Amos, Wenger has said 3 or 4 times that Arsenal NEED to remain in the hands of Englishmen, now this? It may be that we are reading too much into it but he has gone back on his original statement - something you don't often see him doing.

Has he said that the club needs to be owned by Englishmen skimmy? He has said that they need to retain their traditional values and that may have implied english ownership but it seems to me that when he has spoken in the past he was supporting the argument that the club should be self determining and not part of a wider corporate entity more than its ownership. In any case, arguably the club is already substantially foreign owned as I said earlier so how can he object ? I am not sure whether a Kroenke involvement is a good or bad thing either but the politics intrigue me. The lunch that Wenger and Dein had preceded the board meeting in which Dein was fired/resigned. Wouldn't it be strange if in outlining his plans to Wenger it was Wenger that spilled the beans to the board resulting in Dein leaving. Of course it is a completely fanciful notion to think that, instead of this being a contest between the 'toffs' and Dein, this might be a powerplay between Wenger who wanted our own stadium and an independent board and Dein who seemingly didn't. What can be said is that Wenger who now has the power to appoint his own director of football, and not as you might imagine the board, is stronger than he has even been.

yea i agree with AG kroenke seems like a very sensible guy who isnt going to try and interfere with stuff he doesnt know anything about. i will admit tho, the prospect of wegner with even more money at his disposal should be a warning to all premiership sides

those "other old boys" have been keeping the tradition of arsenal football club going gunnerb!!!!! its obvious you aint been going long,deins in it for himself,couldnt trust him,fizzman is the man that you should be grateful for not dein!!shame on you gunnerb!!

I never knew he was against foreign ownership to begin with. He just didn't want that arab guy that knows **** all about sports to take over.

first off, this was reported where might I add ? springy, most gooners know how Dein is mr Arsenal, was a supporter on the north bank terraces, made his money and went into the board room in 83. Fizman made his money in diamonds and with PSION, also went in in 83. The look at our old school chairmain, think he still owns 0.8 % of shares, typical english stock, big old house paid off by his forefathers, worked in the city, now retired and with no real money. fizman is worth 154M in the rich list, the rest of them are less.

prits- the point I was making was that success on the pitch is the most important thing and the boss has proved that this is not dictated by money...so why encourage a takeover solely designed to extract profit from the club