Alisher Usmanov

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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby LMAO » Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:34 am

Alisher Usmanov set to use £600million Arsenal shares windfall for Charlton Athletic swoop

Alisher Usmanov is considering a move for Charlton Athletic after cashing in his Arsenal shares.

The 64-year-old Uzbeki - paid £600million by Stan Kroenke last month for his stake in the Gunners - wants to remain in English football, despite failing to influence transfer policy at the Emirates and deciding against buying into top-flight Everton .

Charlton are a club in turmoil, 11 years after being relegated from the Premier League and two seasons on from falling out of the Championship into League One.

Unpopular absentee-owner Roland Duchatelet is said to want around £20million for the the south-east London club he took over in 2014 for a similar amount — having this week described investing in football as “the mistake of my life”.

Charlton are believed to be losing around £10million a year, with Duchatelet’s attempts to sell so far unsuccessful. Fans have led a series of protests at his running of the club and a series of cost-cutting measures which have angered staff.

Duchatelet said this week: “My conclusion is that the recipes from the business world are totally unsuccessful in football. [Investing in football] was a mistake.

“The football business doesn’t suit me. Too irrational.

“If you want to lose real money, buy a football club…Investing in football was the mistake of my life.”

The news comes just after local hero Lee Bowyer was confirmed as his boyhood club’s manager on a permanent basis after impressing during an extended spell in caretaker charge that saw them make last season's play-offs.

His side sit 10th in League One, but lost on penalties to AFC Wimbledon in the Checkatrade Trophy this week in front of just 1,244 fans at The Valley — which has a capacity of 27,000.

Usmanov ended his 11-year association with the Gunners earlier this month after selling his 30 percent holding.

He had indicated a willingness to add to the millions he's already injected into Everton , a club majority owned by his one-time business partner Farhad Moshiri.

But he now looking for an investment of his own and is understood to have spotted potential in Charlton.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/alisher-usmanov-set-use-600million-13204265
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Zenith » Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:48 am

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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Santi » Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:40 am

Well glad he never ended up fully in charge here after all, the money looked and sounded good but screw him. Go buy Rostov and live in your buddy Putin's basement.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Phil71 » Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:59 am

Yep. We did well to swerve that one.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Rockape » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:13 pm

Phil71 wrote:Yep. We did well to swerve that one.


Certainly did!

Personally, I wouldn't want any individual to own a PL Club, its against all the principles of fan based football. A clubs income should be based on its success, not on some dirty money being filtered through it.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Goonerred » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:15 pm

Rockape wrote:
Phil71 wrote:Yep. We did well to swerve that one.


Certainly did!

Personally, I wouldn't want any individual to own a PL Club, its against all the principles of fan based football. A clubs income should be based on its success, not on some dirty money being filtered through it.

I agree, but it's a bit late for that sentiment. You have to laugh at the Premier League's due diligence test too.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Power n Glory » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:36 pm

Goonerred wrote:
Rockape wrote:
Phil71 wrote:Yep. We did well to swerve that one.


Certainly did!

Personally, I wouldn't want any individual to own a PL Club, its against all the principles of fan based football. A clubs income should be based on its success, not on some dirty money being filtered through it.

I agree, but it's a bit late for that sentiment. You have to laugh at the Premier League's due diligence test too.


It makes you wonder about the other dodgy owners and their political ties.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Goonerred » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:57 pm

Reiss wrote:How comes Usmanov's assets have been frozen but Roman's haven't?

Makes you wonder
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Power n Glory » Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:03 pm

Reiss wrote:How comes Usmanov's assets have been frozen but Roman's haven't?


From the Tweet, it sounds like they have evidence linking Usmanov's money to Putin, Ukraine and Crimea. Football aside, it seems nuts that he was allowed to operate here for so long and our Government just allowed it.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Goonerred » Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:11 pm

Power n Glory wrote:
Reiss wrote:How comes Usmanov's assets have been frozen but Roman's haven't?


From the Tweet, it sounds like they have evidence linking Usmanov's money to Putin, Ukraine and Crimea. Football aside, it seems nuts that he was allowed to operate here for so long and our Government just allowed it.


He first bought shares in 2007 so it goes back a few Governments. As I said, we've been sleepwalking into this.Not just the UK though.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Highbury Hillbilly » Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:10 pm

This kind of explains why he started making noise about backing Wenger financially around 2014. If it worked, he would've been partly successful in burnishing his reputation in England while Russia occupied Crimea.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby VCC » Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:55 pm

Not a billionaire in the world that does not have skeletons imo
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby Phil71 » Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:27 am

His super yacht has been seized in Hamburg.
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Re: Alisher Usmanov

Postby jayramfootball » Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:38 pm

Reiss wrote:Does his assets being frozen mean that he can't spend money now, which means he might finally lose weight?


He's so fat, he is bound to have a stash of food that would last a normal person 10 lifetimes - so about 1 year for him.
He must be hoping his assets are unfrozen within the year.
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