Premier League 2008/09

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Cytat:West Ham United has been put up for sale, but Newcastle may not be sold. At Upton Park the financially stricken Icelandic owner of the club, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, is inviting offers for the Premiership club. Legally binding non-disclosure agreements have been signed with five interested investors, enabling them to look at confidential financial information about the Hammers on condition that they do not disclose it. This falls short of due diligence which gives prospective buyers full access to the club's accounts. The club was bought for £85m two years ago, but a sale price close to £130m is being looked for. At Newcastle, entrepreneur Mike Ashley expects to maintain his ownership of the club beyond the end of the season because he cannot find a buyer willing to pay his £250m asking price. He paid £134m for the club and has spent £110m to reduce debt. He signalled that he was in no hurry to leave the club and could stay on if there was an improvement in his difficult relationship with the fans

W Arsenalu przestała obowiązywać dżentelmeńska umowa zgodnie z którą, udziałowcy klubu mieli nie sprzedawać swoich akcji. Teraz już wręcz jest pewne, że Usmanov przejmie kontrolę nad klubem.

Cytat:The ownership of Arsenal could be up for grabs again after a boardroom row effectively ended the board's lockdown agreement under which directors agreed in 2007 to sell shares to each other. The board ousted long-standing director Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith leaving her free to sell her stake to the club's biggest shareholder, Russian steel magnate Alisher Usmanov. Bracewell-Smith has been marginalised in recent years and didn't get her candidate for chief executive appointed. She was also unhappy about being sidelined about a commercial deal in India, despite bringing the proposition and contacts to the table. Personality clashes are said to have boiled over at last Thursday's board meeting after mounting friction between Lady Nina and other board members. The family of Lady Nina's husband has had a 70-year connection with the club. Richard Carr, related to her by marriage and a 4.4 per cent shareholder, is resigning from the board but remains a director of the club. The vehicle of Mr Usmanov and his business partner Farhad Moshiri, Red and White Holdings, said, 'We are watching developments with interest.'