http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2149693,00.html

Yep - he’s done it again.

He has been a fan for eight years after all.

Hilarious!

“I have been an Arsenal fan for eight years and I think the club
has the best manager in the Premier League,” Usmanov told the London
Evening Standard.
“But this purchase of mine is not a strategic or a political
one. It’s a portfolio investment. Arsenal as a business was
undervalued.

It’s all there in black a white. He doesn’t see you as a football club but as a business. Looks like your club is about to be sold down the swanny.

Right on Comrade!

On some level, I respect that, I suppose! And I’m always happy to laugh at Leeds.

If spuds were being taken over my some russian oil magnate, I would be the first to condemn your lot for selling out to the highest bidder and back stabbing the fans, in return I would expect you all to disagree.

Like all people, this is about my place in the world. My place in my house, among other things, is to trap spiders and release them outside, wifeys place is to pack when we go on holiday.

My place here is to find fault and condemn our bitter neighbours, while trying my best to appear squeaky clean.

So my points regarding some pathetic oil-rich ex-prisoner Putin drinking companion are completely valid, and the chances of him getting his claws into the club are zip.

What I would hate most would be some Kenyon / Ridsdale type fella showing the world how to run a club, especially if it were mine.

If you really think that your lot (whether it stays the current lot, or whether the orange man as you call him gets his way) are running the club for the fans and not the shareholders then, as Bagel says, dream on.

You really are deluded. That said…..

As it happens, I have never for a moment thought that any premier league club is being run for the fans. And I have no particular view about whats going on about Arsenal. It might be a disaster, it might be a success, in footballing terms. Whatever it is, its all about “the man” doing it for himself, and its the same at every club. Personally, I choose to love my football team regardless, and essentially I hate all the rich oligarchs and obsecene finances that make me feel like a hypocrite for following a sport I love. But I acknowledge it, and don’t make anti Arse or anti Spurs comments based on whether essentially the same vulgar capitalist pissing contest is being played out by rich bastards at Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelski or wherever.

And unlike your chairman, I don’t care if we’re British owned or foreign owned…..

What on earth do you think Dein and this Russian backer is doing then?

When the price is right your present shareholders will sell.

In your earlier post you said, “I expect the team to be run in the way the fans demand, not in the best financial interests of the shareholders”.

That’s admirable but, as I said earlier, deluded. I suggest you wake up and stop talking such high minded bollocks!

But I can’t see how it really affects us, if the russian and the american joins forces they still don’t own 30% of the club, if they were to increase holdings above 30% they would be forced to make an offer, which may well be rejected.

We have money to spend, but Arsene chooses not to spend it, we are in profit to the tune of 15odd million from transfers this year alone, and have the £5 million annual transfer budget to add to that, with cash reserves from making the group stages of the CL, and the fact that Ashburton Grove is the most profitable club in the world, we’re kinda loaded.

I can’t see how we need more cash reserves when we don’t spend the money we have, and even though some sections of the fans might implore Arsene to spend on a quick winger or two, we aren’t spending.

Arsene sees that the squad is good enough to win the league, and I happen to agree.