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Farhad Moshiri

7+ Years On... Your Verdict On Farhad Moshiri

  • Pleased

    Votes: 107 7.7%
  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,290 92.3%

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    1,397
Agreed. He also gave up a lot of his time and freedom to moderate which should also be acknowledged.
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The issue at the moment is that he's giving it the big'un with his todger out about making us a top club and putting bids in for Koulibaly etc. Yet we are fannying around over £2-3 million for our number one target.

For me if we want to mix it up with the big boys we need to pay the money, or atleast in the short term til we have a squad with enough quality where we can afford to drag transfer moves out. City and Chelsea done that yet for all the talk we still haven't made a marquee signing nor have we backed the manager.
 

The issue at the moment is that he's giving it the big'un with his todger out about making us a top club and putting bids in for Koulibaly etc. Yet we are fannying around over £2-3 million for our number one target.

For me if we want to mix it up with the big boys we need to pay the money, or atleast in the short term til we have a squad with enough quality where we can afford to drag transfer moves out. City and Chelsea done that yet for all the talk we still haven't made a marquee signing nor have we backed the manager.

I don't think Moshiri is involved with the negotiation process. You don't become a billionaire by messing around.

He has to step in. He's putting up the cash, we need his business acumen, and negotiating skills. It's been obviously for years, especially after the Rooney deal is that Kenwright doesn't have what it takes to strike deals. Elstone is possibly THE worst CEO in the world of CEO's. I wouldn't have him negotiating in a Farmers market, nevermind a multi million deals.

Moshiri needs to realise that he has to do it all himself. The cash and the deals. We can only hope that he can bring in Usmanov, and force Kenwright and Elstone out.
 
@The Esk and @hibbo'sclass

I believe they’ve made a conscious asset allocation decision to increase their exposure to a market (consider the PL and Champions League a market for a moment) that is booming, revenues and valuations growing at exponential rates.

By Usmanov holding 30% of Arsenal, he has more than £300 million worth of market exposure to the Premier League. Previously that was split between them both. Now Moshiri has £87 million worth of exposure to the Premier League through Everton with the hope that that value will rise significantly through success on the pitch, increased revenues and a shiny new stadium on Bramley Moore to boost the asset value.

Combined therefore they have nearly £400 million of exposure to this booming market.


Thus the easy and most efficient option is to use the resources of a company they own and control to assist in that increase in revenues. What is more, the investment hugely assists name and brand awareness in their most valuable asset USM.

What goes entirely unanswered here for me is what Usmanov gains out of this whole arrangement? He just doubled his holdings in Red and White as a favour to Moshiri. Now he's helping him out with commercial funding with naming rights for a holding company he has the majority in. That's required some commitment from him towards Moshiri's project here, but is he getting something more out of this than just doing his mate a favour?

They are, due to the premier league rules, individual shareholders with different stakes in different teams. The performance of the teams and the financial performance of the two interests held by these individuals is going to give different returns on investment for each, and there are different levels of risk associated with both stakes.

Moshiri has, if we look at hibbos workings a few pages back, yet to invest more than the amount he received from the sales of his stake in in R&W. He's took on more risk but with more investment he could get a great return. No arguments here with this being a great business strategy as the tide of premier league tv deals is riding high.

Usmanov though? I find it hard to read the motivations behind his involvement so far. He doubled his holdings in a company and that is still growing and is relatively low risk but he has no stake in the direction of the company and this isn't changing any time soon. He's spoken of supporting them long-term and passing his stake to his children so fair enough that's one explanation.

He's helped out his best mate and doubled his stake and exposure in the market to allow Moshiri to take the riskier investment. Now he's committed his holding company towards a naming deal for our training ground? It's a holding company, so is brand exposure really something they require? He's also spoken about potential sponsorship deals with Arsenal that Kroenke would not endorse, I believe that he mentioned it in his open letter.

If the new shirt sponsorship deal is for Megafone or some other actual customer-facing company USM has a stake in then I can see where Usmanov and USM are getting some return on their investment.

In the article you're proposing that they made a strategic decision together but it if things go our way(New stadium, commercial increases, Europe revenue, % of TV deal etc) it stands to benefit Moshiri far more than Usmanov? Do you believe that Usmanov is happy and settled with this mexican stand-off he has going on with Kroenke and the Arsenal board? Yet at the same time is also happy to basically directly financing us with commercial revenue for naming rights to a company he owns the majority of?

It just doesn't add up to me right now. Usmanov seems like the best mate Moshiri and Everton could have right now to echo a bit of what @MoutsGoat said earlier. This might get around compliance but this is a little strange.
 
I don't think Moshiri is involved with the negotiation process. You don't become a billionaire by messing around.

He has to step in. He's putting up the cash, we need his business acumen, and negotiating skills. It's been obviously for years, especially after the Rooney deal is that Kenwright doesn't have what it takes to strike deals. Elstone is possibly THE worst CEO in the world of CEO's. I wouldn't have him negotiating in a Farmers market, nevermind a multi million deals.

Moshiri needs to realise that he has to do it all himself. The cash and the deals. We can only hope that he can bring in Usmanov, and force Kenwright and Elstone out.

You also don't become a billionaire by throwing money away. If the player wants to come to us, we are in a pretty strong position to negotiate the price.
 

I can only think that Usmanov is looking to get out of Arsenal, at the right time. The right time would be if they win something this season. That would see the share prices spike, and he'd get maximum profits and countless offers.

I get the feeling he wants to own a football club. With Kroenke at the helm, he's never going to be able to do it at Arsenal. At Everton, he has a friend and business colleague with an already lump share of the club. With sponsoring the training ground, possible sponsor on the shirt it's all ready for him to take the remainder on the shares, and have his football club to run.
 
Love me some pivot tables for giving an accurate assessment of daily gross and net income v the monthly budget bro. One can appreciation commercial income and pace of sales through pivot tables.

You've changed lad.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a thread appear in the Ale House for "Five ace tricks in Excel".

Anyway, Moshiri doubtless has hired staff to do his Excel stuff for him, so get your CV dusted off and delivered to his office.
 

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