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MrBling posted:Lots of stuff on the guardian site about Kroenke, but the only interesting bit is this one. I think he probably does have enough cash, and if he doesn't then his wife does (she's a Walmart heiress) but he also has to sell two of the four other sports teams he owns. He bought the St. Louis Rams last year and the NFL doesn't allow you to own major US sports teams in other cities. MLS doesn't count as major per NFL rules, but he has to give up control of his NBA and NHL teams by 2014. I imagine that will net him a decent amount of money. Also Kroenke usually doesn't do any meddling in the way his teams are run.
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Mickolution posted:Why's that? I assume something to do with having owners who are actually invested in the success of the team and aren't just there to make money. They forbid corporate owners as well. wicka fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Apr 11, 2011 |
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euroboy posted:it's not a done deal yet, i don't know anything about him and considering other high profile american owners in the premier league i don't think it's unreasonable to be a bit cautious about this. Like I said before, he's historically been a very hands-off owner, and all early indications are that nothing in the day-today running of the club will change (e.g. Hill-Wood is staying on as chairman).
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Apr 11, 2011 16:17
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Couch posted:Someone (not me) wrote something about his ownership and the general theme was that they were doing well independently of his ownership. Investing in and building the stadium was entirely his choice, though, and it means he's willing to spending a couple hundred million dollars on the team without getting any major short-term return.
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Apr 12, 2011 15:53
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TyChan posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ol-of-club.html It doesn't mean anything other than they want to keep their tiny, irrelevant amount of shares. Kroenke will own 60+ percent of the club regardless of whether or not the AST and Usmanov sell, it's a non-issue.
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Apr 12, 2011 16:55
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Masonity posted:The difference between 99.9% ownership and 100% ownership is that in the former case the minority shareholders can sue the owner if he runs the club to their detriment, stopping him from taking huge dividends to pay back external debts. You can't blame anyone for being skeptical but it's nonetheless bizarre to look at a guy who owns several other sports teams and expect him to run Arsenal in entirely different way simply because other foreign owners have hosed up in the past.
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Apr 12, 2011 18:13
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GutBomb posted:Aside from lifting the trophy did the rapids ever look like champions last season to you? And the stadium is a multi-purpose venue for many KSE vehicles. Lacrosse, football, soccer, concerts, etc... There's also a reason it says colorado and not rapids on the seats. It's a KSE stadium, not a Rapids stadium. He doesn't even own the stadium.
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Apr 12, 2011 18:19
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HinderedUseless posted:I can't think of an individual that straight up owns a stadium in the US. Robert Kraft
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Apr 13, 2011 00:31
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MoPZiG posted:ESPN just put up an interesting chart stating who is the highest paid athlete country by country. quote:"Annual Salary" represents only base salary from the most recently completed season or calendar year from each sport, and excludes any other source of compensation All of their Formula 1 figures are grossly inflated, those are most assuredly not base salaries they have listed.
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Apr 20, 2011 18:38
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TomSellek posted:Why do F1 drivers get paid so much? Like I said, that article is incredible misleading. They probably make that much after endorsements, but ESPN claims that's all base salary (i.e. only the money they get from the teams) and that's not true.
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Apr 20, 2011 22:32
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MoPZiG posted:ESPN just put up an interesting chart stating who is the highest paid athlete country by country. quote:Vietnam Lee Nguyen soccer Vietnam, Becamex Binh Duong 180,000 $1,058 Lee Nguyen is actually American.
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Apr 21, 2011 08:08
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TyChan posted:Here's a bit of a cross-post from the EPL thread. Liverpool apparently just struck the largest kit deal in UK football history. That's...odd.
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Apr 22, 2011 03:44
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Arsenal released their financial statements: http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/documents/sep_12/gun__1348755692_ARSENAL_HOLDINGS_PLC_year_end_.pdf Property turnover down, football turnover up, world keeps turning.
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The Mash posted:I mean.. I can only assume they're talking about FA/League cup games because anythign else would be just entirely daft, but then neither cup is mentioned anywhere in that release at all. I came to that conclusion as well, but the wording is extremely confusing. I also didn't know cup TV rights were sold in the same package as the PL.
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Oct 29, 2012 13:40
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Rycalawre posted:And if you are a shareholder you get free entry to home games if you are ever in Asturias. Well I am 100% pissing away some money on this.
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Nov 6, 2012 15:43
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Ninpo posted:Perhaps if Arsenal weren't doing this: Half of those players are on loan.
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Jan 11, 2013 20:15
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Pissflaps posted:....so....? We're not paying all of those wages.
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Jan 11, 2013 22:09
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Vegetable posted:Last season only Bendtner and Denilson were out on loan. Also, having only four completely useless players on ~60k wages isn't much of a consolation at all. Especially when there's no sign anybody is eventually going to pick them up. That's nice. But four of those players are getting paid by other clubs, and three of the other four (not Santos) are out of contract at the end of this season. So it's not really a problem that's remotely worth discussing. Plus, it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that ticket prices would fall if the eight of them suddenly left. Arsenal are basically averaging a sellout across all competitions, they're not going to lower ticket prices out of the kindness of their hearts.
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Jan 11, 2013 22:25
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Ninpo posted:Oh right, I didn't realise those laughable contracts were signed in a vacuum and that Arsenal haven't done it with players before and won't again. You are correct, Arsenal's financial situation has been and always will be exactly the same.
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Jan 12, 2013 17:31
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TelekineticBear! posted:I think soldiers and nurses should get paid more than footballers i was going to suggest that maybe they would if people filled 80,000 seat stadiums to watch people nurse and fight wars but then i remembered gladiators.
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Crazy Ted posted:That's because their point of reference is major American sports teams, most of which are very profitable. No, they are not.
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