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He’s coming here,

If he wasn’t he wouldn’t have sold his shares, he would have just sat on them and stayed put. He’s a big Arsenal fan and yes wanted control of them but Kroenke wasn’t budging. And if he wasn’t coming here he would have just kept his shares and stopped Kroenke getting full control.

That fact that he has now sold his shares is because he is bringing back NSNO to Everton football club.

Time to enjoy the ride again COYB
 
Very very unlikely. Would you pay 400M to buy Newcastle and then on top need to spend another 300M on players? At the end of the day he will still struggle to get much return out of that. If he buys say AC Milan it would be something similar to that too.

If he buys another PL team he would also pee-off his long time friend by making it one more team Everton could not compete with. Doesn't make sense why two people who are that close would do that to each other.

They are just waiting it out, he doesn't want to do the dirty on Arsenal 5 minutes after selling up and possibly add uncertainty over the stadium funding with the council, added to that don't we need planning permission to buy out Kenwright and co anyhow? After that is sorted he will then be able to buy in here for what 150M and have potential of least his shares going up in value. How many clubs can you rock up next to the stadium in your super yacht all for that price? Good as done in my book, the only thing that would stop it if he goes to the toilet and does an Elvis on us.
Pee off his long-term lackey, more like!
 
If he were to come on board he would be a central figure in the regeneration of the area, the stadium and the subsequent growth within the city which will come from that. He may well even part fund some of it.

Abramovich stopped looking to rebuild when the cost reached 1 billion +. That part of London does not desperately need regeneration (or need it at all) and there would be little strategic advantage to the government to allow it to go forward.

So they will disregard his links to Putin??
 


I don´t want Usmanov at Everton because there are moral boundaries that should not be crossed.

https://fbk.info/english/press-releases/post/330/
"...Official version sounds like this: he manufactured plastic bags, then sold cigarettes, then went bankrupt, and then established a company called Interfin, in which his partners invested $10 million each, believing in Usmanov’s genius business acumen. Interfin company really did exist since 1995. But fortunately for the ACF from the moment of its establishment 40% of Interfin stock was owned by the British company Middlesex Holding PLC. The ACF read the accounts of this firm, and others, associated with it, for the last 20 years — that’s more than 2,000 pages. Those documents are a pure treasure as they show a real story of the Soviet asset privatization.
In 1997 Usmanov crept into Gazprom and used Gazprom’s money to buy his own shares in the British company, and then, a bit later, sold them back to himself, but for less money. This was the moment that Usmanov and Dmitry Medvedev became such a good friends. Medvedev was the Chairman of Gazprom’s Board of Directors at that time and these scheme wouldn’t be possible without him.
A lot was said about the honest taxpayer Usmanov. He brought to the budget half a billion dollars in the course of 10 years. Among all of his properties only his yacht costs this sum. He should’ve paid several times more. The entrepreneur Alisher Burkhanovich doesn’t sell Russian raw materials directly, but uses his own offshore intermediaries and sell through them with more than two-fold price difference. This tax evasion scheme is called transfer pricing.
Alisher Burkhanovich repeatedly said the he is developing the internet. When in fact he took over the largest Russian social media Vkontakte after the regime wrestled it from its founder Pavel Durov. Durov refused to provide the security services with the personal information of users in groups that criticized the regime. Usmanov in turn introduced censorship and now we see weekly attempts to sentence people for likes and shares.
And lastly about the lawsuit. Rape was among the accusations recounted by the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray. On his website one can find these lines: “Alisher Usmanov is a vicious thug, criminal, racketeer, heroin trafficker and accused rapist.” Mr. Murray was a public officer, who due to his position communicated with everyone in the leadership of Uzbekistan, had access to all the secret information and continues to insist on his statements. But somehow Usmanov didn’t take ambassador Murray to the British court and is trying to settle this case in Russian one where he can easily bring a suitcase with cash."
 

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