LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Three and a half months after billionaire Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea, another Russian tycoon is planning to buy into London rivals Arsenal, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.

The Independent on Sunday said Vladimir Potanin, an oil and mining magnate, was considering investing up to 120 million pounds ($203 million) on a new stadium for Arsenal in return for a share of the club.

Potanin, a former Russian deputy prime minister, is one of the small group of "oligarchs" who were awarded multi-billion dollar industrial empires in the privatisations of Russian industry in the 1990s.


Fellow oligarch Abramovich bought Chelsea three months ago, winning the club the nickname "Chelski" in the British press, and stocked them up with top players.

The Independent on Sunday said Potanin was an Arsenal fan and had flown to London to see the side play. The club are trying to raise 400 million pounds for a new stadium.

The newspaper quoted a "senior associate" of Potanin as saying the Russian "was keen" and had "talked very seriously" about his plan to buy into the team.

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Its about time Arsenal get some money!!!

No. Won't happen.

doubt so. :rolleyes:

Yeah each week some Russian wants to buy A club, It pisses me off

Nothing to worry about, very unlikely to happen....

but if it really happens....I HOPE ARSENAL GET SOME ***EN GOOD PLAYER LIKE CHELSEA!!!

hehehe:p

lol....Russians think this game is just for fun.....
i really hate when they corrupted the original of football....:rolleyes:
football manager will not be challenging anymore.....not pure....:(

if they did, it'd be maddess.

You think people are pissed about Chelsea? Hell, non-English fans hate Arsenal for no reason, what if Arsenal got some money?!

what for he want to buy another english team? just to compete with his chelski now? don't see that happening...:kader:

Originally posted by Amika
what for he want to buy another english team? just to compete with his chelski now? don't see that happening...:kader:


.....and finally ManUtd win all the titles......:rockman:

you know how they have those russian dolls? the ones where a small doll is covered by a bigger doll which is covered by an even doll which is covered by an even bigger doll...

that's pretty much how it works. get a small player replace it with a better player and replace him with an even better player...

if it happened.....
Chelsea = Chel$ki
Arsenal = ................???? - A$$nel???

At the moment if the letters feel on the stadium we couldn't afford to replace them

I wouldn't mind a rich billionaire coming to Wolves :$

this russian guy must be mad if he is to buy arsenal... a team that is struggling in europe despite wins over psv, dortmund, auxerre and roma... and of course, you dun want to buy a team with a guy that could be hated in valencia if he earned that penalty....

as opposed to the ManU CL championship team of 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999.............ahhhhhhhhhhhh, there it is, thank goodness they won 5 CLS ago, because it would have been hell to get to 1958.

ManU has probably lost more matches than Arsenal in Europe in the last five years.

Man Utd have played more matches, because they WIN and PROGRESS.

Originally posted by antithesis


ManU has probably lost more matches than Arsenal in Europe in the last five years.


what a stupid statement.

thats like saying Schumacher must have crashed an F1 car more times than me :rolleyes:

Schu doesn't crash :p The car fails or he falls asleep at the wheel.

Originally posted by KoreaJjang
Its about time Arsenal get some money!!!

WHAT!?!?!
How dare you say its about time ARSENAL got some money!!
they are only strapped because they are building a mammoth stadium for gods sake.
Hey Russkie! Buy Leeds ya stingy son of a bitch!

Originally posted by Oz_Leeds_Fan
WHAT!?!?!
How dare you say its about time ARSENAL got some money!!
they are only strapped because they are building a mammoth stadium for gods sake.
Hey Russkie! Buy Leeds ya stingy son of a bitch!

....booooooo:p

Originally posted by antithesis
as opposed to the ManU CL championship team of 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999.............ahhhhhhhhhhhh, there it is, thank goodness they won 5 CLS ago, because it would have been hell to get to 1958.

ManU has probably lost more matches than Arsenal in Europe in the last five years.

wtf thats bollocks, we gone further than you lots in the CL for the last 7 years, how come we lose more matches than you gooners in the CL then. :kader:

maybe he's impying Arsenal draw alot, you know that's not a loss, just not a win.

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Originally posted by Amika
what for he want to buy another english team? just to compete with his chelski now? don't see that happening...
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umm... we're not talking Abramovitch here, are we? Thought this was a different person.

Anyway, why not? I mean Arsenal need money because they're building a new stadium. The flip side is that the Russian guy would own a part of the club and I'm not sure if he has the required skills to run a football club.

me being a gunner fan, don't want this to happen.
we'd be like chelsea, spending and spending and in the end we're gonna need to rotate players.
no good.
maybe buy some cover for vieira and the centre backs, that'd be useful.

Just because the guy could buy Arsenal doesn't mean he would be a second Roman Abramovich, this guy would probably pump most of the money into the stadium to name it after himself:p

But seriously that sure would be something... though IMO Arsenal wouldn't need a huge make over, maybe a new striker, a couple new mids, 2 new CB, a new GK, and then 5 good backup players.... IMO thats reasonable:D

Oh and BTW who knows.... maybe he could end up chugging money into Inter.... man would that be awesome:rockman:

Russian billionaire industrialist Vladimir Potanin dismissed on Sunday a British press report that he was in line to buy into Arsenal.

The Independent on Sunday said Potanin, a metals magnate, was considering investing up to £120million in a new stadium in return for a share of the London club.

'Vladimir Potanin has no plans to acquire any sports clubs whatsoever,' said a spokeswoman for his mining empire's parent company Interros.

A press release by Interros said reports that Potanin was in talks with Arsenal were untrue.

Potanin, a former Russian deputy prime minister, is one of a small group of 'oligarchs' who were awarded multi-billion dollar industrial empires in the privatisation of Russian industry in the 1990s.

Fellow oligarch Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea three months ago, winning the club the nickname 'Chelski' in the British press, and stocking it with top players from around the globe.

The Independent on Sunday said Potanin was an Arsenal fan and had flown to London to see the side play. The club are trying to raise 400 million pounds for a new stadium.

haha! But good try Arsenal fans, for getting your hopes up. Maybe next time. Although many people say that they don't want a billionaire to buy Man Utd, but i don't know why. I would want to see somebody buy United especially from Russia! Just look how Chelsea benefited from that. If i am wrong, then please somebody explain why.

I would like to see him buy Arsenal personally. It wouldn't bother me if the EPL had all the great players because thats the only good Soccer I get on my TV.

Originally posted by Help?
haha! But good try Arsenal fans, for getting your hopes up. Maybe next time. Although many people say that they don't want a billionaire to buy Man Utd, but i don't know why. I would want to see somebody buy United especially from Russia! Just look how Chelsea benefited from that. If i am wrong, then please somebody explain why.


good try by arsenal fans? so now arsenal fans write the newspapers, and legit websites??????

are the english people sooo poor i mean it cant be there are not even one billionires to buy a big club

i forgot al fayed although he is not english ;) and fulham is not that big to be talked about

imagine if arsenal had just 20 million to spend, that would surely help them in europe

I dont think you understand mate. We have some money but we are just putting it all into the stadium to secure our long term future because with United just getting bigger and bigger and Chelsea with unlimited amounts of money in 5 years time there will be no way for us to compete with them. We cant rely on picking up a Sol Campbell or a Kolo Toure for Free.

Hell; lets just auction off the EPL :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

lol russia's gonna buy the premiership :D :p :confused:

arsenal fans are not contributing..... there are roughly more than a million gooners fan in england... if they donated £1 a day , they would have accumulated £30 million one month...

yeah. It's strange that Arsenal have a lot of fans. And any REAL Arsenal fan atleast bought their jersey, so that should be a lot of money for only the jerseys and some buy way more than one, however they still can't raise enough money. I guess everything goes into the wage bills.

Originally posted by Fernandez
there are roughly more than a million gooners fan in england... if they donated £1 a day , they would have accumulated £30 million one month...

No, really? :) :ewan:

mudafackin russians!!!!! :rolleyes:

buy man u instead.:D

YA lor, buy us and and do a roman spending spree. :)

i thought that billionare came out and said that he is not going to buy arsenal already.. i read it in the local newspaper today... :rolleyes:

They always write that crap, Russian billionaires this and that.

Originally posted by Amika
i thought that billionare came out and said that he is not going to buy arsenal already.. i read it in the local newspaper today... :rolleyes:

......i saw on eurosportnews

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3215797.stm

Denied

so bull**** from the press then, lol. :p

Russia buy all!!! :p

apparently he is considering and the denial is a smokescreen.

I heard that he is an arsenal fan and that he wants to invest 120 million into the stadium in return for stakes NOT BUY ARSENAL

If we did have transfer funds i would hope arsenal buy teves or torres, or etoo

dun stand a chance.....if i knew wenger, he will stick to his frenchmen...