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<blockquote data-quote="dawg" data-source="post: 2995102" data-attributes="member: 1402"><p>Kroenke's ownership summed up in one picture: faded, chipped, and in need of renewal.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://preview.redd.it/l8zzuaq3lxv61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=237d49fa680f59cc62ba743943d3d1dcbd0b4463" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It's nice to think about Kroenke leaving the club, but like Chongo I doubt he will. KSE will offer up an NCAA14-style "get off me, son" stiff arm for two reasons:</p><p></p><p>1. He's worth $8b. In addition, and I wasn't aware of this until reading articles about the potential sale this week, his wife's middle name is "Walton." Yes those <em>Walton's</em>, and her net worth is estimated at $8b as well. He can buy Ek twice without feeling it. He doesn't need to sell the club.</p><p></p><p>2. Fan anger means little to owners, especially ones living half a world away. United supporters have been protesting the Glazers out for 15 years now. Newcastle supporters have been trying to get Mike Ashley out for a long time as well, and he lives in Britain. Liverpool's protests may have helped push Hicks out, but he was actively looking to sell anyway. They don't care.</p><p></p><p>Ek's £1.8b valuation of Arsenal is nearly half his net worth, which means he's either getting a couple fellow billionaires together in a consortium to shell out "straight cash homey" or proposing leveraged buyout. The latter would obviously be worse, since the chance remains that said debt could be loaded "Glazer-style" onto the club after the fact. Ek has bid at the point where KSE's purchase of the remainder of Usmanov's shares valued the club in 2018. There's a price, despite he public statement, at which he'd listen, but I doubt Kroenke would consider anything short of £3b.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dawg, post: 2995102, member: 1402"] Kroenke's ownership summed up in one picture: faded, chipped, and in need of renewal. [IMG]https://preview.redd.it/l8zzuaq3lxv61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=237d49fa680f59cc62ba743943d3d1dcbd0b4463[/IMG] It's nice to think about Kroenke leaving the club, but like Chongo I doubt he will. KSE will offer up an NCAA14-style "get off me, son" stiff arm for two reasons: 1. He's worth $8b. In addition, and I wasn't aware of this until reading articles about the potential sale this week, his wife's middle name is "Walton." Yes those [I]Walton's[/I], and her net worth is estimated at $8b as well. He can buy Ek twice without feeling it. He doesn't need to sell the club. 2. Fan anger means little to owners, especially ones living half a world away. United supporters have been protesting the Glazers out for 15 years now. Newcastle supporters have been trying to get Mike Ashley out for a long time as well, and he lives in Britain. Liverpool's protests may have helped push Hicks out, but he was actively looking to sell anyway. They don't care. Ek's £1.8b valuation of Arsenal is nearly half his net worth, which means he's either getting a couple fellow billionaires together in a consortium to shell out "straight cash homey" or proposing leveraged buyout. The latter would obviously be worse, since the chance remains that said debt could be loaded "Glazer-style" onto the club after the fact. Ek has bid at the point where KSE's purchase of the remainder of Usmanov's shares valued the club in 2018. There's a price, despite he public statement, at which he'd listen, but I doubt Kroenke would consider anything short of £3b. [/QUOTE]
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