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Club Owner(s) Estimated combined net worth Source of wealth Arsenal (more information) Stan Kroenke [1] $16.9B [2] Commercial property Kroenke Sports & Entertainment Walmart: Aston Villa (more information) V Sports [3] $10.3B [4] [5] Investment and Industry. Fortress Investment Group Comcast [6] Bournemouth: William P. Foley [7] $2.0B [8 ...
The club made an operating profit (excluding player transfers) of £72m in the year ending 31 May 2010, from a turnover of £379.9m. [6] In April 2009, business magazine Forbes ranked Arsenal as third most valuable football team in the world, after Manchester United and Real Madrid, valuing the club at $1.2bn (£605m), excluding debt. [7]
Six different players (Vermaelen, Van Persie, Arshavin, Fàbregas, Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner) scored in the team's 6–2 win. [43] Arsenal defeated Birmingham City 3–1 at home before conceding twice away to West Ham United on 25 October 2009 to draw. [44] Arsenal's final game of October was a North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur.
Wenger is the club's longest-serving manager; he surpassed George Allison's record of 13 years in October 2009. Two Arsenal managers have died in the job – Herbert Chapman and Tom Whittaker. This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Arsenal since their foundation in 1886.
The club launched the Arsenal for Everyone initiative in 2008 as an annual celebration of the diversity of the Arsenal family. [219] In the 2009–10 season Arsenal announced that they had raised a record breaking £818,897 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. The original target was £500,000. [220]
KSE is the owner shareholder of soccer club Arsenal. In April 2007, Granada Ventures, a subsidiary of ITV plc, had sold its 9.9% stake in Arsenal Holdings plc to KSE. [5] KSE went on to buy further shares in the club, taking the total stake to 12.19%. [6] The club's board initially expressed skepticism that a bid would be in its best interests, [7]
5 May: Midfielder Mathieu Flamini agrees to a four-year contract with Italian club Milan, meaning he will leave Arsenal on a free transfer on 1 July. [3] 23 May: Physiotherapist Neal Reynolds agrees to join Arsenal from Norwich City. [4] 28 May: Arsenal are granted a work permit for striker Carlos Vela, who spent the 2007–08 season on loan to ...
When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]