Posts Tagged ‘Alisher Usmanov’
Uzbek billionaire increases ownership in the Emirates.
New Emirates owner will not buy the shares owned by the club’s supporters.
Stamford Bridge supremo knocked out of top three on richlist and could be removed as London’s best club by Emirates counterpart.
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Another excellent piece of journalism by perhaps the best blogger out there at present as Arseblog delves deeper into the boardroom kerfuffle at the Emirates.
Unless you’ve been living in an underground bunker for the past few weeks, there is something of a financial crisis taking place all over the world at the moment. Share prices have been sinking quicker than the Titanic, and the footballing world has certainly not been immune to the global meltdown, with the Russian oligarchs at Chelsea and Arsenal both feeling the pinch. [Read the rest of this entry »]
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has increased his stake in Arsenal by 1% to take his tally to 24%. His investment company Red and White Holdings bought bought shares, roughly half a per cent, from one shareholder in a single trade and this move has multiplied the speculation that the Russian billionaire is trying to buy the entire club.
At the moment, the Arsenal board own 50% of the shares at Arsenal and in October last year, they decided to bar Usmanov from increasing his shares at the club since they see him essentially as a threat.
Although Usmanov’s representatives have denied that the billionaire is looking for a complete takeover of the club, football experts believe that Alisher Usmanov is actually inching closer to making a bid for the north London club.





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