I'm with youredwhiteAustrian said:I wish none of both was involved in our club.
I'm with youredwhiteAustrian said:I wish none of both was involved in our club.
Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke to outline vision for club to shareholders at Thursday's agm
Stan Kroenke is intending to address shareholders at Arsenal on Thursday when he attends his first General Meeting since becoming the majority owner of the club earlier this year.
Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager, will also be at the meeting and will take questions from shareholders and discuss the team's mixed form so far this season. Kroenke, who is up for re-election to the board, will outline his ambitions and vision for Arsenal, which involves expanding the club's commercial revenues while retaining the self-sustaining business model.
He regards Wenger as central to the club's future success, despite the sudden dip in results that followed defeat in the final of last season's Carling Cup. Kroenke has not addressed shareholders since joining the board in 2008 for fear that any public comment about his intentions would go against Takeover Panel rules.
Thursday's meeting is well timed given the recent improvement in form, with Arsenal having won seven out of eight games since losing to Blackburn Rovers. That sequence has helped them rise to seventh in the league, while they also top their Champions League group and have reached the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup.
Yet shareholders are also likely to express their dissatisfaction at a 6.5 per cent increase in ticket prices and the club's transfer strategy during a summer that saw them sell three regular first-team players in Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri and Gaël Clichy. Alisher Usmanov, the club's second largest shareholder, is not expected to attend the meeting.
dpt49 said:I think even someone like Kroenke can't pretend everything is fine, even though we are in a good bit of form.
This is the first season where the empty seats at the Emirates so conspicuous. and the reasons are obvious to all, except the board and Wenger.
I expect the board to come out with the usual statements like, we are fully behind the manager, we understand the supporters frustration, we will do everything to keep our top players, we will make available money for players the manager wants.
The same old rubbish we normally get from our caring, sharing board
ebouenolike said:The love in from some Gooners towards Usmanov and 'Red and White' is frankly bizarre.
ebouenolike said:The love in from some Gooners towards Usmanov and 'Red and White' is frankly bizarre.
ebouenolike said:The love in from some Gooners towards Usmanov and 'Red and White' is frankly bizarre.
qs said:ebouenolike said:The love in from some Gooners towards Usmanov and 'Red and White' is frankly bizarre.
The lack of any sort of evidence for what they believe about him is even more bizarre. He is not a football man for starters, he's only become interested in recent years. He's also not an Arsenal man by any stretch. He's never said he pump money into the club either so I've no idea where the idea he'd be an Abramovic style sugar daddy comes from, is it just that he's from the former Soviet Union and he's a crook?
What's with the S&M thing every time apublic arsenal issue is on ?Anzac said:the usual smoke & mirror
is this an attempt to capture human history in a phrase? (not bad, either).some 'difficult/hard' questions asked,
a 'logical' type response that does nothing to address the root cause of the scenario,
and then there'll be absolutely no follow up to get any 'real' answer,
and the masses will be assured that all is well
coz "we don't want him and his sort" :wink: .Rain Dance said:Why Usmanov not attending?
yuvken said:What's with the S&M thing every time apublic arsenal issue is on ?
ebouenolike said:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7cce6a7c-7205-11dc-8960-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1c0djRZR8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yes, Usmanov is all about putting his hand into his pocket ...
This is the same man Danny Fiszman made it clear he didn't want anywhere near the club - a man who lived, breathed and loved Arsenal didn't want Usmanov anywhere near the club. Yet a little PR manipulation from the toad and some Gooners are getting him on their shirts.
yuvken said:coz "we don't want him and his sort" :wink: .Rain Dance said:Why Usmanov not attending?
PHW's old phrase was obtuse and stupid, but it actually applies with the other dude. And we don't even need to lean on Fizsman - we all know it well enough. Yeah, he got loads of money. OK. Let us sort our problems decently, hard as they may be.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/rory-smith-silent-stan-speaks-to-reassure-fans-but-discontent-rumbles-2376785.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 76785.html</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Stan Kroenke said:"Hey," he said, in his grits-and-corn Missouri drawl, laconic, laid-back, far more at ease than his reputation for taciturnity would suggest. "It's great to be here. We just got in a few hours ago. What a wonderful club. I have been asked to say a few things. I'm not quite sure why."