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Baba God don talk am! See me see wrapper ..no shaking.. spurds are the pudding for the eating by the gunners

pappilo: You are fooking clueless! Red face Piers Morgan a valued shareholder? You must be having a farking laugh.

What I will never understand is why people like Abrahmovic and funds like Qatar and Abu Dhabi spend so much money in these clubs that they will never make back.

Fayed at Fulham recently converted £200 million owed to him by Fulham into equity and Abrahmovic did the same with about £400 million owed to him by Chelsea a few years ago

Why are you jealous of Him? Do you own any shares in Arsenal? At least He is one of those whose shares will be bought and like it or not He is a valued share holder in Arsenal go deal with it if it pains you Shoo see me see jealousy oh

mukina2: we want our arsenal back yeah ,but not with this kinda 'ashewonism'

we are already going through a difficult phase, we do not need more destabilization

i just hope if they do buy us, things will change but not like cheksli kinda hire and fire o

@omo_t
i see your handiwork o

like Theiry handiwork you mean ..I go do spurs the thing today..wait let me go tie my wrapper

Wetin persin no go hear for NL politics Abeg I dey go church make I go thank God and pray say make Arsenal thrash Spurds 4-1, now somebody shout the loudest Amen in the house . After all prayers works.....

Next story please ..

Hmmm, means every game will be a stand up commedy This news is really unsettling. Every gunner wants the club to come out of the current mess but really not sure if big money spenders is what we really need now.
If Former Barca coach was still available, then it would have made good news, as He would be the right person to spend any windfall on the right players. Arsene will never spend on big players as His policy and stance have always being players should not be paid millions they earn these days..

Obviously, these multi billionaires do not care about football as AB has shown with Chelsea, as they are after short term success. Arsene may also have to move up to board management level and who knows, the Chosen One may take the reign at Arsenal Anything is possible these days!

Speculation: Arsene W likely to be given $500m spending spree when the deal is completed

Okay I am monitoring this news and Piers Morgan is twitting that the bid is genuine. Obviously, Morgan is valued share holder in Arsenal and He has confirm the take over bid is going ahead... Arsenal is facing an uncertain future oh

Arsenal poised to be subjected to £1.5bn takeover bid from Middle East consortium within the next few weeks
The world’s biggest ever bid for a football club, dwarfing the £800 million paid by the Glazers for Manchester United, will be backed by funds from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The group do not want their identities made public yet but a bid source told Telegraph Sport the intention is to buy out Arsenal’s American owner, Stan Kroenke, whose perceived weak stewardship of the club has also been called into question by frustrated supporter groups.

The cash offer, which is more than twice the amount at which Arsenal were valued two years ago, will be for 100 per cent of the club, and if successful would wipe out debts that stand at around £250 million according to the last full year’s financial results.

According to a bid source, there would be substantial transfer funds made available to transform the club into a major force in European and world football. There would also be a pledge to reduce ticket prices at the Emirates Stadium — currently among the highest in the world — as well as an attempt to recreate “some of the feel of the old North Bank” at Highbury.

The bid team has noted the damage caused by Kroenke, who owns two-thirds of the club, refusing to engage with Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who owns 29.96 per cent.

The bidders would like to unite the ownership, putting all the shares together in one fund. The offer will be for the full 62,217 shares which have been issued, but effectively it will be to buy out Kroenke, in the first instance, paying around £830 million for his 66.83 per cent shareholding (41,581). The offer equates to around £20,000 per share.

The deal would provide the American with an approximate profit of £400 million given the majority owner is believed to have paid around £430 million to build his stake in the club since he first became involved in 2007. When Kroenke made his mandatory cash offer for Arsenal in April 2011, buying up the stakes owned by Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, it valued the club at £731 million.

A meeting has already been requested with the American to discuss the proposed offer. The seriousness of the bid is reinforced by the recent successful takeovers of Manchester City and Paris St-Germain by Middle East backers.

It is unlikely Usmanov will want to sell his shareholding, given his “dream” of taking control of Arsenal himself, but the Middle East consortium believes it will be able to work with the billionaire, who does not currently have a seat on the board and who has been frustrated in his attempts to get more involved.

Any takeover would inevitably raise questions over the future of manager Arsène Wenger, although the Frenchman is understood to be highly-regarded by the consortium They do not want to lose his football knowledge and want him to remain at the club.

But they are well aware that the last trophy won was the 2005 FA Cup and that Arsenal have become less of a rival to the Premier League's top clubs. They believe that the club have settled for relative mediocrity.

Arsenal travel on Sunday to north London rivals Tottenham with the club in a desperate fight to finish in the top four of the Premier League and qualify for next season’s Champions League. Arsenal currently lie in fifth place, four points behind their neighbours.

Despite protestations to the contrary, failure to qualify for the Champions League would undoubtedly have serious ramifications for Arsenal, who have been in Europe’s premier club competition for the past 16 years under Wenger.

A bid source told Telegraph Sport: “Arsenal is at a pivotal position at the moment. The fear is that the club is facing a cycle of decline like Liverpool. From our point of view it is the perfect moment to make this bid because at this moment in time you can still genuinely justify this extraordinary valuation on the club.

“We will not bid for Arsenal if they go into decline. Kroenke and Usmanov will not get this kind of valuation if Arsenal do not succeed and will not get this kind of valuation ever again.

“We think that bidding now is the key because it is going to give every shareholder maximum value. We are giving them peak valuation.

“The amount of capital required to pump into Arsenal to make it competitive within England, Europe and the world means that the valuation cannot go any higher.”

It makes the prospect of a gargantuan bid to buy the club all the more tantalising for frustrated Arsenal supporters.

“No big club can go eight years without winning anything,” the source added. “No manager of a big club, not even Sir Alex Ferguson, would have survived eight years without winning.” It is not an unreasonable statement.

Whether Wenger would voluntarily stay and work under a new regime is another question. Should a bid prove successful, Wenger would be in an awkward position, having previously criticised clubs with wealthy owners, accusing them of “financial doping”, although he has strong links with Paris St-Germain who, of course, also have Qatari owners.

Wenger’s current contract runs until June 2014 and it is understood that as things stand he has no intention of quitting even if Arsenal finish outside the top four, although he has faced growing calls to go.

The proposed new owners claim they are serious in their desire to turn Arsenal into a force again and also to do it in the right way. They say they do not want to acquire the club to make money but to invest.

The bid group believe that the ownership of Kroenke and his son and heir, Josh, has been at the heart of the club’s lack of competitiveness. They have also identified a lack of experience in football as a significant barrier to success.

“The biggest problem with Arsenal is that it has no owner, no face and there is no one to report to,” the bid source claimed. “The management of the club at every level is not put under scrutiny and does not have to report to anyone.”

The inference is that neither Kroenke nor his son has a feel for Arsenal – a claim which has been lent weight by the former’s low profile at the Emirates Stadium – and that the current board lacks strength and leadership.

Chief executive Ivan Gazidis has been criticised for being too deferential towards Wenger, who enjoys a huge amount of control at Arsenal.

Supporters have complained that Kroenke is not a visible presence and has not met directly with them since the takeover, although he has attended recent home games against Bayern Munich and Aston Villa. His reign at the club has come under criticism from fans at successive annual meetings.

Arsenal currently have a clear, self-sustaining structure, rejecting the benefactor model, with Wenger, the board and majority owner believing their approach will eventually succeed, especially with the incoming Uefa Financial Fair Play rules.

But there are genuine fears among fans that Arsenal are simply slipping away and becoming less competitive.

If successful, the bid would almost certainly take Arsenal to another level. The prospective owners claim their intention is to turn Arsenal into a major force in European football; one that will compete with Manchester United and Manchester City for the Premier League title and with Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and PSG in the Champions League.

Given the nature and structure of the funding, the bidders say they are confident they will still be able to comply with FFP.

It is understood that they wish to maintain a degree of stability at the club, despite the upheaval of a takeover, although there would be a new board and, in all probability, a new chief executive as it is understood that Gazidis would be unlikely to be retained.

The bid team regard Arsenal as one of the great clubs of European football but also one that is no longer punching its weight and is in danger of falling behind.

Arsenal’s failure to hang on to their top talent has been a source of major unease at the club. Losing Holland international striker Robin van Persie — who left for Manchester United criticising a lack of ambition – Spain international Cesc Fabregas and France international Samir Nasri all hit hard.

The prospective owners claim there would be a firm commitment to a model of developing and keeping young players but also, and as a priority, to strengthening the squad so that those players, such as Jack Wilshere, have no reason to leave in the future.

Wenger believes he has a core of a squad that can challenge but this is not a universally-held opinion with doubts over the strength of the spine of the team.

Even his most fervent supporters struggle to make a case that Wenger is on the verge of creating another great team or that the squad has depth and quality to compete despite a high wage bill.

The Middle East consortium claim to sympathise with Arsenal supporters and their contention that many of them have been priced out of following their club.

Supporters groups have already warned that generations of fans could be lost.

Ticket prices, among the highest in the world and an increasingly contentious issue, will be reduced, the bid source said, and there will be an attempt to recreate “some of the feel of the old North Bank” at Highbury within the Emirates Stadium.

The bid source added there was a real desire to “bring back some of the true supporters” who have been priced out or become disillusioned.

The disillusionment is undoubtedly there. Cup defeats to Bradford City and Blackburn Rovers heightened that sense as did the humiliating Champions League 3-1 defeat to Bayern Munich at the Emirates a fortnight ago, when the German side played with a verve and tempo Arsenal no longer recognise.

Finishing outside the top four would compound it even more especially if the proposed takeover is rejected. That would further increase the pressure on Kroenke in particular.

Source :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/9904640/Arsenal-poised-to-be-subjected-to-1.5bn-takeover-bid-from-Middle-East-consortium-within-the-next-few-weeks.html

honprof1: You Lied Man ! Lagos is the most currupot and Poruous of crime mostly assisted to carry out my security agents, the empower security Men rather chase innocent civilain than the criminal .... Go back to record of the previous governors of Lagos state you will how it is statistically revealed the more of the lifes are claimed now compare to d previous administration either police or my state govt agent knowm as Agbero.. Think and refine ur words b4 u pour here, as some of us know ur governor better than how u do.... Okayyyyy!

Do I have to take someone who can barely spell serious First go improve yourself and take advantage of the free education in SW..

Andyforte: U didn't even condemn the killers. Just went straight to okada. When things like this happen, what I expect u to do, o governor is to implement a strategy to expel cultism from the school. But noooo, it's okada. Accident between trailer and bus happen, it's okada. Fllood in lagos, is okada, Goldie die, is okada; fire guts tejuoso market, is okada.

Have you taken time to watch the whole interview? Some of you come across like animals rared in the wild! Would it occur to you that any governor, I mean any governor will give a press interview on a dastardly act and wouldn't make any condemnation of some sort? Think again but this time use your sense and not let your emotion over run you! Be a MAN

[quote author=Ejiné]I'm going to tell you why I maintain he's an idiiot.

For starters, it was really funny he side-stepped the more pressing issues to focus on the minor.

He foolishly refused to ask himself why LASU is swarming with cultists in the first place.
He failed to ask himself why the school authorities have completely failed to tackle cultism in that school.
This Fashola failed to ask himself nothing was done about the boy in question when almost everyone who knew him knew he was an Airlord.
He refused to tackle the weak security apparatus in that school, and only chose to focus on OKADA?
Instead of asking himself WHY the cultist was even still a part of the school anyway, he was more focused on WHAT his killers were driving when they killed him, or HOW they escaped?

He was more interested in making them see reason with his decision to ban the okada, than about the state of cultism in LASU.

If your wife cheats on you and falls pregnant for another man, would you be asking about why the condom was of such inferior quality or would you be asking yourself why she cheated and why you even ended up with such a person in the first place?[/quote]as someone who lack the capacity to be a school prefect, it is no surprising you cannot see reason why He would use this sad event to buttress that piece of legislation. You come across like an individual who is intellectually deficient, lacking in understanding and unable to comprehend.

melotech: name one state where you pay tax on every thing like lagos tax for kai,lasma,vio,nurtw,local gov boys,lawma,tenament rate,market ticket,everything in lagos is attached to money so why wouldn't the Gov make provision for adequate security as for me Fashola is a failure (you are fail not because you did not score but you don't score the pass mark) i score him 30%

Go to Edo State, Delta State and see if the taxes paid by the citizens are any different. Delta is even worse because there is no commensurate reinvestment of those taxes in public infrastructure that benefits the man on the street.

Some of you want to enjoy what you see on tv in western nations but fail to understand that they are paid for by the taxes of people who work day and night. Let me give you example, council taxes here alone on the average yearly amounts to £1,500 which will equate to N375,000 (exchange rate of N250 to £1). Do you have an idea of the VAT paid on goods and services here? How many Nigerians pay council taxes if at all?

howfarwhatagwan: Now I know Nigerians do not want to move forward. When something is more of a nuisance than good what do you do? Fashola is simply speaking the truth it is very sad that people do not see the rational or the meaning behind what he has said. Wake up my dear Naija peeps and stop being selfish we will never move forward with this sort of attitude or thoughts.

Thank you for this very insightful observation. We have become so self centred that we barely give a second thought to anything that is against what benefits us only. Numbers speak for themselves. Lagosians have pointed out clearly that the vast majority of the robbery I their neighbourhood is carried out by criminals using Okada. The government have listened, done what is right by restricting their use and some self centred folks cannot see the good in doing so

thelastPope: Fashola funded who? Built which infrastructure? And you know that from your UK base? Please, we know you are a sycophant but try and still pretend you are a real Nigerian. You are not even qualified to comment on Lagos from where you are. We live here and work here daily. Fashola is the most insensitive Governor Lagos has ever had! The guy only cares about himself and his cronies.

By the way, please you guys should do him and memo to watch "1000 ways to die" so he can understand that he shouldn't blame the tools for crime. He should blame the people who commited it and the society that failed to raise them up properly.

Haha, I am sure I visit and stay in Lagos more than you ever did. Your comment that Fashola is the most insensitive governor clearly shows you are a clown. What was Fashola share of the vote in the las election again?

I know your hatred for Fashola is not out of objectivity and care for the average Nigerian but as you are well known on NL, your stomach is your God and you see Fashola as a potential threat hence your nonsensical statements about Him and the very positive impact His governance has made on not just Lagos but Nigeria as a whole.

Can you in your humble self point out which state has provided more funding to the police than Lagos State under Fashola? Give me the name of one state. Even FCT does not even measure up.

melotech: name one state where you pay tax on every thing like lagos tax for kai,lasma,vio,nurtw,local gov boys,lawma,tenament rate,market ticket,everything in lagos is attached to money so why wouldn't the Gov make provision for adequate security as for me Fashola is a failure (you are fail not because you did not score but you don't score the pass mark) i score him 30%

Can I start by asking you which state you are from?

melotech: what are the tuition fees meant for can you please explain if provision of security is not included

If anything, can you attest to the fact that there are no security on campus in LASU?

Bendosky18: me and mr ibu at manchester

So you are a barman ..

Abeg can I snap with GEJ will SSS. Allow me to have a cup of garri with GEJ or even brown tea with cassava bread with GEJ and allow me take photo too..

[quote author=Ejiné]You should quit being a boxed-in coward and stop throwing empty punches which have no effect on anyone and do nothing but further reveal your emptiness.
Where did I say my last post was about the headline?

Reread the embarrassing line from you I highlighted and come back to further regale us with your shameless antics.

What an excuse from you.[/quote]What is embarrassing in pointing out to glorified F-9ners like you how nonsensical your comments on the article are even when the truth stir glaringly at your face that Fashola never attributed the death of the boy to Okada, but mainly use the opportunity to buttress His government's reasons for introducing the restriction placed on Okada by citing several examples of how Okada has aided criminals in your clout in succeeding in their crimes

thelastPope: It is thread like these that really exposes these ACN sychophants as real hypocrites. They will always defend Fashola or anything ACN no matter what they do. While that is within their rights, their hypocrisy is exposed when they try to attack every other person and claim it is some kind of objective or non-partisan move.


They started out deliberately on this path but it seems they have actually reached a crecendo where they are actually begining to believe their own lies and propaganda. A state of psycological delusion! A phenomenon where you tell yourself a lie so much that you actually begin to live it out. At this stage, they will come online and type the most ridiculous stuff and still tag it as sane or superior or truth.

Little wonder Fashola is really doing stupid stuff when he is surrounded by such people. How can banning of Okada change the mind of a determined killer or cultist? The guy who was killed at anthony recently was murdered by an assailant who simply shot him, crossed the road, entered his car and zoomed off! When has it ever required Okada to commit a murder? Murders and roberries have been commited from time immemorial! They were commited on foot, with horses, donkeys camels, cars, skates, boats, name it. 32,000 people were killed by guns in the US in 2012. It is only from Fashola's mouth you here such dumb stuff like this that Okada is responsible for crime.


The only way to reduce crime is to put necessary security structures on the ground and to improve standard of living in society. Not to ban things! Pwew!

Name one state that has better security in Nigeria than Lagos apart from perhaps Abuja? If the numbers clearly show that Okada is aiding the criminals in their evil does it not make sense to your that curtailing it is the right thing to do? You talk of improving the standard of living, is it not a fact that most of these people who come to Lagos to rob on bike do so because of greed and get rich syndrome?

If anything, Fashola has funded the people that He barely has direct authority over and has put in place different strategy to assist the police to combat crime, so what ore can He? Can you really in your heart claim Fashola has not done much to improve the living standards of Lagosians directly or indirectly by His good governance? The numerous infrastructure project He has embarked upon no doubt has lifted some out of the poverty line and given others a life line of hope. There are other fellow governors who could have done same and make. Jobs available everywhere by investing heavily in capital development, instead they have looted their treasury and their fellow citizens are now turning to crime in large number. Go to Delta state and see things for yourself.

[quote author=Ejiné]You're so shameless.[/quote]Is it glorified F-9ner like you I would even given reckoning to Go back and read that article and point out anywhere Fashola blamed the death of the boy on Okada..

warrior101: Lol... Each time i come across people like you, my mind just goes back to the likes of George Galloway. The only difference between youself and them is that you are a jobless nincompop. You should consider joining yahoo yahoo office and stop wasting your time here. Ttyl

Even your IP reveal who you are.. Criminal an ignoble human who could careless to read an article and base his comment on a sensationalised headline can only be regarded to be in the class of Duns.

tomakint: What a dumb statement from 'Mr Eko o ni baje' and some thugs in the house are calling Jonathan all sorts of names! Well, Fashola is warming up as a better candidate for APC come 2019 till then let's wait and see

I know you are not intelligent enough to comprehend at article after all PEJ is your school head, so one can pardon your reasoning

Maxymilliano: Once again, I say you keep quiet if you don't have any tangible response to my post...

Am I actually bothered by your display of uncultured behaviour? Absolutely not. Glorified criminals like you often front for their pals whenever government out In place measures to checkmate their activities.

Show us your statistical numbers that indicates that robbery in Lagos is carried out more with cars than on commercial motor cycle then I will take you serious. I asked you a potent question viz; How many power bikes are registered as commercial motor bike with "red" plate numbers?

warrior101: Check MAXIMILLIANO's comment for your answer. You and Fashola is the insane and creul entity giving a Dog a bad name in other to hang it...

We might be cruel for the sake of the millions who deserve to live in peace. I am sure (God forbid) when you become a victim of criminals who rob using bikes you will take a different stand, unless you are also a criminal who trade has been put out by Fashola's bold piece of legislation No?

solomon111: you call those nonsense you wrote above,'sane'.
Funny.

Did I not ask you to go back to your baseless military thread and allow sane people discuss politics?

D Granite: you r a very big goat how has adding akwa ibom to ur post, add any sense to it, you better learn how to write on a social media.

It won't change the truth of what I said. Anybody who lives in GRA in Benin will confirm what I said in my post. Listen, it is stupidity when something negative that is true is said about your people and you resort to insults.

I live in the UK. And when I get confronted that Nigerians are liars, cheats and criminally minded, I cannot but understand why any body will say so because my fellow Nigerians exhibit all of those behaviours. Same goes with your Akwa-Ibom people in Benin when I stayed there for holiday. In fact, many areas in GRA began restricting Okada to operating between 7am and 5pm because as at that time, most of the akwa-Ibom people who were mostly security men and house help leave their wife at home when PGA is gone to work and connive with their brothers elsewhere to go rob people using Okada.

What I have said is factual and I will not apologise for it.

warrior101: I go by the headline... So he is blaming Okada

You go by the headline and never bother to read the details of what He actually said does that not say a lot about you as an individual and yet even have the guts to speak vile against Fashola ?

Maxymilliano: Will you keep quiet and say only what you know? There's nothing like commercial bike, bike is bike, deploying it for commercial purpose doesn't change that fact... A bike was used for the hit job, and like I asked earlier would it have made any difference if it was a power bike that was used?

My office is at Oniru in Victoria Island, you don't need to tell me to ask people in Lekki how thieves have come to rub them of their SUVs, most crimes in Victoria Island and extension is rarely with the aid of bikes, a private estate that was attacked by armed robbers few months ago was made successful with the aid of SUVs, not bike, a lady that was kidnapped at Jeffrey's Plaza close to Abraham Adesanya estate (first gate) was not with the aid of bike, the engineer that was kidnapped from Lagos, killed and dumped at Ifo was not with the aid of bike...

What other concrete evidence do I need to counter what the government is saying or should I also add the lebanesse restaurateur at Adeniyi Jones who was forcefully bundled into a waiting vehicle and dumped few days later along Benin Express road after a 3M ransom was paid or the armed men that calmly raided bureau de change operators from Agege to Ikeja in a single operation with a stolen vehicle and without any form of challenge?

Tell someone to keep quiet shows your father never brought you up with manners how many power bikes have you seen registered as commercial motor bike with "red" plate numbers? It is obvious some of you just talk for the sake of it. If evidence from the security agencies and most importantly the citizens indicate that top of the list of the mode of operation of criminals in the state is through the use of commercial bikes, why would any sane government not see that as a first bull to tackle?

I am sorry if you are Okada rider and you are pained by the government decision which obviously has benefitted millions in Lagos. You zealots will also complain by the time Fashola bring forward a legislation to ensure all car owners can be tracked.