Arsenal 'target of £1.5bn takeover'

opethdisciple · 3 Mar 2013 at 01:43

Article.

I'm not sure I want Arsenal to go down the path of Man City, but something has to give at Arsneal.

What doesnt make sense tho, is the Financial Fair play rules come in to force soon, so Arsenal wont have time to spend the money which Man City and Chelsea have done... whic is a bit unfair really!

opethdisciple · 3 Mar 2013 at 15:52

explicit4u said:
TBH I doubt Kroenke/Usmanov would sell so it probably wouldn't happen.

It wont happen.

opethdisciple · 3 Mar 2013 at 15:53

J-FRO said:
I wonder if it would be possible for such a takeover to occur with such parent company doing the following (if this is not legally done then by all means tell me somebody):

1) Takeover occurs
2) Takeover consortium purchases second football club in a country outside Europe where the UEFA FFP rules do not affect them.
3) Consortium having taken over Arsenal then sells the full Arsenal squad to said secondary club for a substantial profit to erase all debts.
4) Secondary club then loans back the full squad to Arsenal and significantly subsidised wages or implements similar wage scheme to keep Arsenal operating costs down.
5) Secondary club with the consortium money then continues to purchase exceptional talent and loans them all to Arsenal like all other players.

Can this legally be done?

Financial fair play (or what ever its called) will have the club thrown out of the champions league as punishment (untill they meet the rules- teams like City, Chealse and Man U are not currently meeting)

But this is the problem. The big clubs will say FU Blatter you cant throw us out of the Champions league just becuase we dont meet the Financial rules, we dont want to be in the champions league anyway.

They go off and form their own super league or new compettion as has been discussed before (involving all the major clubs around EU)

The only team really pushing the FFFP rules is (no suprises) Arsenal. Why? Becuase our business model is based on a Pre-Abamovitch era style of football, one where the club genertes all their own cash and nutures players, not one based on out side torrents of cash splashed around.

Before Abramovitch I remember Arsene Wenger saying that Arsenal where going to dominate the legue for the next 10 years, simply becuase our business model ad club struture was super efficient and we had a great academy. Then Abramovitch brings the Premierships 9/11 disaster and turns all that on it's head and tears up the rule book, ushering in a new era of Football, that of the billionaire owners play thing.

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2013 at 23:01

drunkenmaster said:
People don't understand debt, profit or how stupid corrupt most organisations like Fifa/Uefa/governments/local community groups, everyones in it for themselves.

FFP, if punishments are handed out are likely to be nothing more than lining the pockets of Fifa/Uefa/FA depending on which rule you break.

Look at championship rules, its along the lines of, spend 1mil more than the club makes, pay a 100k fine, spend 5mil more, pay a 2.5mil fine, spend 10mil more, pay a 5mil fine... you still get to be in the league. Its just a money making scheme, the more a team spends to get out of the championship, the more the FA rake in with fines. I expect the champions league, and prem league FFP rules to essentially do the same.

FA/Uefa/Fifa see City spending 500million over a few years and just want their piece of the pie.

The punishment is expulsion from the Champions league. Enforcing it is another matter.