Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has angered Arsenal fans by taking £3million out of the club, after promising many times that he would never take any dividends from any of the sports clubs he owns.
This is indeed a shocking news for the gooners, who pay more than any other club fans for their tickets, which saw a 3% price rise recently too. Arsenal fans were already unhappy at the board for not addressing issues like lack of depth in defence, no solid defensive midfielder, and a world class striker, etc…
According to The Guardian, Stan Kroenke injected the £3million he took out of the club to his company KSE LLC for ‘strategic and advisory services’.
In 2013, in an interview to few newspapers, Stan Kroenke said,
“I have never taken money out of my sports clubs, but I reserve the right to do so – I’m certainly not promising NOT to do it”
Here are twitter reactions from few angry Arsenal fans, who were very vocal about the issue,
Kroenke is taking money out of the club having not invested a cent in the playing side since taking over? Absolute fucking bellend.
— Sir Frank Lampard (@Wrighty_8) September 24, 2014
*casts mind back to being lectured endlessly about how Kroenke never takes money out of his clubs*
— Arse2Mouse (@arse2mouse) September 23, 2014
Arsenal's Kroenke angers fans by taking £3m out of club.
ManUtd helpless as Glazers consume £1b of club earnings
#SpotTheDifference #MU
— Margret (@margret_daugher) September 24, 2014
Kroenke taking a £3m dividend doesn't bother me one bit! He owns the club and is entitled to it! Doing a great job commercially too
— Iam_tha_lastborn™ (@kblow_hadewaley) September 24, 2014
I'm not sure Kroenke should be taking money out of Arsenal while it's still 1-2 players short and unable to compete on all fronts.
— Olivia Landry (@livlan) September 23, 2014
If Kroenke is taking 3 mil out of Arsenal then why don't we just let Usmanov take over??? He actually cares about the club.
— Jöey (@AverageGooner14) September 23, 2014
Kroenke should keep the 3million if he can name the regular #Arsenal starting XI
— Ryan Karerat (@rkarerat) September 23, 2014