The fans need to keep up the pressure.
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Meh. Matt Law is a very opportunistic ājournalistā speaking on/towards whatās popular sentiment at that moment.
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Ball park figures donāt really add up.
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Tbh thatās a fan friendly story with ex players involved.
Why would they be that interested.
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Iām sure they can come up with something. Billonaires always do. They donāt have to outright buy it, but tie down financing through loans (able to pay the immediate interest etc).
But the Kroenkeās simply donāt want to sell.
FSG got lucky that Klopp said fuck it. Iāll go with you all even he might have gotten better projects if he just waited. That is going to be the best case for us to get out of the shithole weāre currently in. In stead of Stan being bought out.
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Perhaps but financially it doesnāt make a lot of sense to me. Ekās net worth is half of Stanās and the other 3 mentioned arenāt going to contribute much financially. Seems like an awfully risky time to buy a club valued at 2 Billion with Covid affecting the sport quite greatly.
Saying youāre thinking about buying it though is easy advertising for Ek and Spotify, realistically I think itās much more complicated.
Aside from all that Ek running the club doesnāt fill me with any more confidence than Kroenke and from what Iāve seen from Henry and Vieiraās managerial careers Iād be hesitant to believe theyāre going to make the correct decisions at the highest level either.
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I agree with you donāt get me wrong. This is easy PR.
Iām saying that in the end this doesnāt really matter. A lot of us, if we purchase a house, our net worth doesnāt allow us to buy (with cash). We have to finance/raise funds through (mortgage) loans (at least that is how it works here). This wouldnāt be different. Hence somebody with the net worth of Ek isnāt immediately excluded of buying.
3.4bn net worth. So it will have to involve some crazy financing for it which could end up stitching us up even more.
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Thereās just no way he can buy out KSE alone, the liability on any bank providing the loan would too large.
Heās going to need at least 3 other billionaires willing to his join consortium and share power.
Vieira-Henry as co-managers with Bergkamp as Director of Football. 
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Iām calling clickbait reactionary fiction on the basis of current fan protests
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Exactly. Kroenke isnāt the worse case scenario for this club by any stretch of the imagination
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Here we fucking go 
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So what happens now? Daniel Ek borrows money against Arsenal to finance the move in much the same way the Glazers did.
Then we get a bunch of hack manager ex-players running the shop doing token things to get fans on side instead of running us like an actual football club.
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We donāt need owner investment. We make enough money ourselves.
We have had a lot of investment lately. What good has it done us?
We just need our owners to hire the right people - those who donāt have smooth brains and those that donāt get taken in by super agents or fraudulent Chinese automobile companies.
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But we also donāt need a new owner who will leverage his takeover of the club against Arsenal. Which is the likely scenario here.
But itās also clear as day we need a new owner. Kroenke is not fit to be the owner of a football club that much is clear.
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This is basically it.
Weāve spent plenty of money in the past few years. Weāve just spent it poorly.
Get a proper DoF installed + a quality manager then weāre on the way.
This club has had so many different people trying to squad build over the past few years - itās why weāre in such a mess. No unified vision. Squandered Ā£200m+ on random players whilst not understanding the profile of player the manager needs for the most part.
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At the end of the day we donāt actually know how much money Ek has. Itās not as binary as Forbes Rich List placing Ek above or below Kroenke. These peoples networths are privately held assets at wealth managers and family offices - analysts can make educated guesses and get an idea but theyāre very often off the Mark.
I know because I worked in PWM for a big American investment bank and some of these multi-millionaires/billionaires are most of the time a lot richer than you think - poorer for that matter as well. Plenty of holding companies in the Caribbean, Asia etc. that these Forbes lists never take account of.
Ek likely has more money and ability to buy the club than we realise.
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Maybe they can get flamini onboard heās got a couple bn to his name
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I wonder if Dangote would be interested in such a move, partnering with Ek.
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