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Africa's richest man targets Arsenal

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, is working on a major oil refinery project in his native Nigeria. Once he's built it, he intends to buy Arsenal, his favourite football club.

Interviewed on his luxury yacht in Lagos by the Financial Times he said: 'I love Arsenal and will definitely go for it.' He reckons the club is worth about $2bn.

He has long been frustrated with the team's decline under Arsene Wenger. As owner he would involve himself in rebuilding the team, 'chipping in my own advice' as he puts it.

Neither of the leading shareholders has given any hint they want to sell their holdings.

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  1. Anonymous15 July 2018 at 05:43

    an old old old article

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  2. Anonymous15 July 2018 at 05:54

    Thank you inadvance for trying to buy and salvage Arsenal aas you love the club and that is the most important element in the business. The cirrent main holder has said before that he doesn't care whether Arsenal win trophies or not as far as it is a profiting business for him . Bost Wenger Era needs a complete rebuilding of the team and squad , the shareholder has offered the new Arsenal manager Emery around £70 million as a transfer budget and that is not enough to buy one world class player as even Liverpool who are still rebuilding their stadium has spent £75 million to buy a central defender. Arsenal from being the invincibles today they are in the sixth place and going down the darin. Thank god that Mr Wenger has gone. Now Emery is doing a great job even with the small budget he is given , but we hope you take over and make a real investment to turn Asenal to one of the pillars of the world footbal

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