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Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
- Fans have called for coach Wenger to depart after two decades
- Usmanov says board, main owner responsible for lack of success
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
Darth Toffeeman
Player Valuation: £40m
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Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
- Fans have called for coach Wenger to depart after two decades
- Usmanov says board, main owner responsible for lack of success
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
What is he doing still messing about with those wasters...
Get your empire to Bramley Moore and rule the league with your best friend
billytoffee
Player Valuation: £20m
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Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
- Fans have called for coach Wenger to depart after two decades
- Usmanov says board, main owner responsible for lack of success
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
I think that is one of those where you could take the position that this shows he remains committed to the Gunners but equally take the stance that it is a bit of preparing the ground to bail out and go elsewhere due to the way they continue to treat him.
You never know
BrendanGOT
Player Valuation: £30m
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Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
- Fans have called for coach Wenger to depart after two decades
- Usmanov says board, main owner responsible for lack of success
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
He's rocking the boat for sure, trying to stir up fan tensions and cause protests and unrest etc, question is, if we go by Esk's logic that he can't find a buyer of his shares for various reasons, then this could be a way of him forcing Kroenke's hand to buy Usmanov's shares so he can invest elsewhere or he's trying to force Kroenke to give him more shares at Arsenal and power. Interesting to say the least, it definitely seems like a calculated chess move to say the things he did.
Dom1878
Player Valuation: £60m
Problem is what does he have to gain. You'd imagine Kroenke doens't want any further competition - so regardless of what Usmanov says he'd never buy him out, and he'd never give him more power - as there's just not a need to.
The only way Usmanov would be leaving would be a third party buying him out, which isn't unlikely as at the end of the day it will make the buyer money long term...
...The biggest thing in all of this is why would you send Moshiri first, when Usmanov could have came and left Moshiri - the less threatening candidate - at Arsenal? There would have been a much greater chance of Moshiri being bought out by Kroenke.
BrendanGOT
Player Valuation: £30m
Very fair points mate. The last point is the one that often reminds me that us Blues are dreaming thinking he's coming here. Hopefully something changes his mind and he comes over to us
Dom1878
Player Valuation: £60m
Buying him out would put far more pressure on Kroenke.
...Kroenke's share holding value has apparently increased by £300m in less than 10 years and Usmanov takes a swipe at him, saying he is powerless to halt Arsenals problems;
http://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/billion-reasons-stan-kroenke-could-12882681
http://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/billion-reasons-stan-kroenke-could-12882681
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
The esks burgeoning career as a podcast commentator, echo article writer and blogger/website runner of his own articles, pretty much hangs on Usmanov never coming here, if it did then his single biggest statement on something will have been utterly wrong.
hence why he is so vociferous about any article, comment or opinion contrary to that
One thing i noticed from that usmanov interview, first one i've read about his involvement at Arsenal from him where he made no statement about being their for long term, passing his shares on as a legacy to his family etc, some would say that is a rather large omission and curious to say the least.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
How's that 1000% looking then?
Oligarch Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by
Yuliya Fedorinova
and
Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 6:27 PM GMT+10
- Fans have called for coach Wenger to depart after two decades
- Usmanov says board, main owner responsible for lack of success
Alisher Usmanov on April 6.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.
Arsene Wenger, who has led Arsenal since 1996, has faced increasingly vocal calls to quit from fans this season as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004. The club is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s Champions League, a competition it has played in for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds a season.
Arsene Wenger
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images
"I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed for what is happening," Usmanov, whose efforts to become majority shareholder were rebuffed in the past, said in an interview last week. The board -- which the billionaire isn’t part of -- and main investor Stan Kroenke “bear huge responsibility,” he said.
While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding. Usmanov called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations.
Wenger’s future has proved a divisive issue among fans, leading to chants, banners and infighting at matches. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for and calling for the Frenchman to depart. Wenger has a contract until the end of the season.
Wenger Decision
Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.
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“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the club. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."
As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is preparing to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.
Usmanov, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has a strained relationship with Arsenal’s board. His pledge to underwrite a rights offer to boost the club’s firepower in attracting players was also rejected, with shareholders instead opting to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke.
"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
An Arsenal spokesman declined to comment.
Compared to his normal interviews regarding Arsenal, not a single comment about his commitment long term to them mate, a very definite change in tone, could be he is still committed ofc and forgot to mention it for the first time ever when interviewed about his stake in Arsenal, or could be part of an exit strategy - laid absolutely everything that is going to happen at the club right at the feet of Kroenke now
David Frances wife in an interview on Toffeeweb seems to hint at Usmanovs possible involvement
http://toffeeweb.com/season/16-17/comment/editorial/34656.html
http://toffeeweb.com/season/16-17/comment/editorial/34656.html
dublinbluenose
Player Valuation: £70m
Great read that, their passion drips of the page.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
I agree with you mate. I'm not that clued up on ownership or finances.
But the esk has hung his hat on usmanov not getting involved, yet within 12 months he's sponsored the training ground.
He also talks about kronke not wanting the extra competition, with usmanov moving to us. It looks to me that kronke doesn't really give a [Poor language removed] about the competition. He's hardly reacted to the money Utd, City and Chelsea have spent in the last 5yrs. 2 cups in 12yrs and a team going backwards
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