Highbury Hillbilly wrote:This is the reason I'd be skeptical of a Daniel Ek takeover effort.
No owner that's serious about winning trophies would risk £3bn on Arsenal in its current state. I can see him financing it via private equity, so he puts in a fraction of his own cash and pays him and his consortium partners tens of millions in dividends.
FSG bought Liverpool for a piddling £300m 10 years ago. That's a bargain considering the club's status in English football. It also allowed them to invest heavily straight away and recruit the right managers and coaches.
Arsenal meanwhile haven't been in CL for 5 years, and are going backwards despite buying half of a new team each summer. That valuation doesn't make sense to anybody except PE vultures.
Yeah I just don’t get Arsenals’ value, our commercial deals are nothing special, we’ve not have any real success for years, we’re a midtable team, we’re also not gaining fans like we use to, generally kids prefer the winning teams like City and Chelsea etc (likewise fans abroad).
Where does that value come from, it doesn’t make sense and doesn’t make us attractive to a potential buyer.