TheImp:



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-04/arsenal-ownership-remains-wish-for-richest-african-after-rebuff

shakazuldadon:
he cant
why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with....
by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

ApexTitan:


You are very ignorant. Who is the chairman of BCC Lions here in Nigeria?

Clowns like you should do a little research before you mount your pulpit of condemnation.

free2ryhme:


Read this
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/save-bcc-lions-football-club-of-gboko/


He can't even manage BCC lions

Who wants to buy arsenal and run it down

shakazuldadon:
he cant



why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with.....




by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

ApexTitan:


Yes Dangote wants to spend millions of dollars in buying a majority stake in Arsenal then run it down and lose all his money. Wonderful reasoning on your part.

Stop shifting the goal posts, you initially came in here condemning him for not investing in a local club.

lizzlix:
He can buy the club because he has the money , but I doubt the shareholders will listen to his ofers. If buying stakes at AFC is about money , then ,[s]Alisha Usmanov who is 3 times richer than the Russian mugu (mogul) , CFC owner and Dangote combined would have been the majority shareholder at AFC. Usmanov have tried unsuccessfully for years too [/s].

shakazuldadon:
he cant



why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with.....




by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

ritababe:
I pray make e happen

ApexTitan:


You stated that if Dangote bought Arsenal that the fanbase in the north (i.e, northern Nigeria) will skyrocket. While I do not have any data to show here I am pretty sure that that demographic will be of little or no consequence to the wealth of the club or the club owner.

The foreigners who own Arsenal certainly did not buy it to increase their native country fanbase - their target was the global community where the money really lies. Do you think that Arsenal has a considerable fanbase in the US because the owner of the majority stake at the club is American?

Africa, Asia and Europe are very lucrative markets for English clubs on the macro level. That's why clubs will continue to work these markets. However Northern Nigeria as a demographic will add little or no gains to the coffers of any club simply because as a whole it is not as financially well off as other demographics in this country. The fact that they have the wealthiest people in their group does not mean that wealth is evenly distributed there. It can even be argued that poverty is even worse up North than in other places in this country.

ritababe:
I pray make e happen

RedBenson:


Are you an Arsenal fan?

Fellonigerians:



He should buy a Nigerian team and sponsor it... That will trigger his fellow millionaires to do the same, since copy-catism is the order of the day in Nigeria... This will revolutionize the Nigerian Football League...

Oga Dangote, charity begins at home... Show them how successfully you can run a team in Nigeria, and use that to sell your qualification for a piece of the action, like Dandy Dandy of Mr. B and friends...

Joshkid:
For ur mind...Hope u know hw much an English club c0st?

ritababe:

sure

Reference:


Wake up. Socialism doesn't work. I can read your thoughts because of free enterprise. Your phone, your network and yes Dangote cement used in building the base stations..

shakazuldadon:
he cant



why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with.....




by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

truthfulguy:


Story.

Roman Abramovich has more skeletons in his cupboard so what have they done to him?

mrmetoo1:
He can't buy it. I'm not sure he's ready for the public scrutiny that'll follow. The world will get in on Dangote's dealings not only for accountability but also racism. A cub with a rich English history all of a sudden taken over by an African. The questions, the ridicule will be bad PR for arsenal. All those "how did he become so rich in a nation with so many poor people?" "He's extorting his people, why are cement prices so high over there" "he has used his connections in government to get away with unscrupulous practices" "if he has that much money how come he's not using it to help his country people" etc. Dangote will spend more time defending himself than anything else. They'll find every way to justify it not happening without necessarily saying "we won't let an African own arsenal"

Any chance of that happening, we really need to clean the image of Nigeria. Nigeria has to be seen as a prosperous nation.

arsetalks:

Usmanov has 30% stake in Arsenal and he has a criminal record. And still has a case pending in court. Roman Abramovich was once indicted in court.

Mohammed Faye who used to own Fulham was indicted in the queen Deila bullshiiit.

The Brits don't care about how you get your money once it benefits their bankrupt kingdom.

Besides, it is left to Kroenke and Usmanov to decide if they want to sell or not. However, it will be difficult. Dangote should have been mopping up shares from small shareholders like Usmanov has been doing.

To be successful in a bid now, he has to pay say $3bn which will be 2 times more than the stock market value of the club but that shouldn't be a problem for a man worth close to $16 billion.

I for one want him to buy Arsenal or have major share in the company. Send Kroenke packing.

since1914:


If Roman Abramovic can own a club in England, then Dangote too can own one as well, because Dangote has a far neater image than Roman Abramovic, who built his entire empire on the back of sweet heart deals because of his closeness to Boris Yeltsin's family. All at the expense of the Russian people. Have you forgotten how the English public were treated to a legal debacle in the English courts and the accompanying media brouhaha over Sibneft shares between he and his erstwhile partner, Boris Berezhovsky who also accused Abramovic of intimidation and links to the Russian mob?

Besides Dangote's businesses today transcends Nigerian borders, hence they are very visible and verifiable, hence I see very little that the English press will use against him. As regards the issue of cement prices, we must note that Dangote is not the only cement manufacturer in the country therefore, if the others significantly lower their prices, Nigerians will choose them over Dangote any day. My suspicion is that all the cement manufacturers in the country (Dangote inclusive) are colluding to fix cement prices. If this is the case, then we should rather blame our regulators for creating the avenues for them to get away with it rather than hold Dangote solely responsible. Businessmen around the world always seek loopholes to exploit to maximise profits, and it is the role of government to protect its people from bearing the brunt of their actions.

Lastly, I once heard a rumour several years ago (I don't know if it is true) that Dangote was on the verge of running for NFF (then NFA) presidency but was advised by his friends that as a business man with assets all over the country, that it was possible that fanatical football fans could destroy and vandalise his properties whenever the Super Eagles lose a match. Having observed the pattern of things in this country for some time now, I think that scenario is a very plausible one, hence I wouldn't advice him to risk it. Until the NFL puts it's house in order, no serious business man will put his money in the league. They need to come down hard on match fixing and other vices tainting the Image of the Nigerian league.

arsetalks:
At no point did I say the fan base in the north will increase even though thats the truth. And you saying the fan base in a particular area won't affect the wealth of the club is a big lie.


Why do you think Kroenke has insisted on Arsenal going to America when it is a common knowledge that the market in America has been made saturated by Real Madrid, Barca and Manchester United who have been going there year in year out for the last 20 years? Why was Usmanov trying to get Arsenal to Russia? And when you say they want global penetration, is Africa/Nigeria not part of the globe? You honestly think there is no reason why Manchester United has been going about establishing academies in Africa? A Craze Arsenal has now joined.

To this I agree but never forget the fact that it is a game of number. The north has massive numbers and it adds up in revenue in the end. Plus I did not talked about the north here. Not at any stage.

nerodenero:
If the deal pulls through, the fan base in the North will skyrocket. The people are just unidirectional. They support there own either by hook or crook.

mrmetoo1:


Again my point really came down to racism!! I can see a lot of Brits kicking against a black African owning the club not saying it's impossible. Now they can't come out openly and say "we don't want him because he's black" what they'll do is "let's take a closer look at him". My point wasn't against Dangote. What I was trying to express was me being skeptical about the Brits acceptance of a black African owning such a historic club. Black players still suffer racism not to talk of a whole cub like arsenal now being in a hands of an African.

arsetalks:
This assertion can only be valid when the fans still own the club. Even the Arsenal support Trust fund headed by Tim Payton and co does not have up to 3% of the club.

Didn't the fans kick against Abramovich? Where they able to stop Ken Bates from selling to him? Yes, they protested against him by ensuring they do not sell Stamford Bridge to him till date but that's the case with Arsenal as the club owns the stadium outright.

Yes, they may say he did not get his money clean but what court indicted him? Was Abramovich not indicted by a court and still very likely to serve a jail term? Was Usmanov also not indicted? I strongly think racism or not, if Dangote wants to buy the club, he will buy it and they can do nothing about it.

TheImp:



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-04/arsenal-ownership-remains-wish-for-richest-african-after-rebuff

shakazuldadon:
he cant



why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with.....




by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

ritababe:

i hope u know we are talking abt ARM here