If they give us the money but let Arsene run things and not go on a shopping spree à la PSG, I don't mind it. If it means we keep our best players and start competing for players like Cavani or Gotze it's all good for me.
But if we do like Chelsea or Man city or any other plastic club, it just feels like cheating.
Sooooo I really don't know how I feel about this. And like Footaholic said, it is probably just rubbish, and even if it weren't, it probably wouldn't happen.

yes! hopefully Arabs takeover the club ( who cares many teams do it like city, Madrid, PSG etc. ) so we can compete with the biggest clubs in Europe

I am seriously starting to question some of the Arsenal fans on here. I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM READING.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you are being ridiculous because of your blind anger at losing a NLD. But if not...

@quikzyyy & @MrArsenal: you should be ASHAMED of yourselves. how could you possibly even contemplate let alone say these things? If you want to become classless glory-hunters than be my guest... just change the name of the club above your avatar.

At least I can understand @KingHenry's point about how it might be ok if they were going to maintain the Arsenal way of doing things. Unfortunately, I doubt that someone willing to pay that insane amount of money wouldn't want to do everything his way.

@Footaholic it's not about TROPHIES it's about which way is Arsenal going. Arsenal was always top class club which played beautiful football which I loved. But since we sold Henry then we're just selling our key players. Yes it's probably a shame that RVP left us but he's there, he know what are the plans at Arsenal board. You can't win trophies, you can't compare with best teams when u keep selling best players, every year we sell 2 key players from our team, and then we are trying to buy decent player and hope they will carry us. Henry left because he always wanted to win Champions League, and after we moved to Emirates(which was fatal mistake for us) he knew it's not able to win it in next years. Fabregas wanted to go home. RVP wanted trophies. And that's about it. Some players just wanna more money, some players just wish to win trophies and some got heart for team(Wilshere). You can't blame RVP that he left when he wanted to win trophies, you can blame board that they let him go to rival team. If the board expentations is to FINISH TOP 4 and not to win trophies which fault it is? If we can't win EPL, champions league, FA cup, we can focus on capital one cup right?! our only focus which AW said is TOP4 and where we are? 5th 5 points behind 4th place. Does it mean our ONE and ONLY focus is fail anyway? You must agree we can't win trophies with this team it's not possible. Giroud got potencial but that's not arsenal.
Mertesacker is totally useless, why we not bought Vertonghen? Arsenal political of making money is good? Wasting money on players like Arshavin, Squillaci, Gervinho? Instead of that we should buy some world class player. Get over it decent players = decent Arsenal.

No disrespect to the Arsenal fans, as most of you know I have no problem with your club whatsoever, but I can't understand how any REAL football fan would be happy to see his/her club taken over, in this case Arsenal but I'm talking in general as well.  Success should come from hard work and the right philosophy, which is from football, not throwing billions of pounds in to new players.  I don't know many people who respect Chelsea or Man City for the way there success has come to them, as I'm sure fans of other European leagues look at the likes of PSG as well and how well they are doing now, do Arsenal fans really want to see there club go that way as well? Arsenal have a great history and a lot of respect from other fan bases which will all be lost if they got taken over. Not forgetting the amount of glory hunters and plastic fans that brings to your club as well which isn't a good thing.

it's not that i wanna Arsenal like City, Chelsea but there are problems in board, i will be happy if Usmanov take more % of the club, that American cunt called Kroenke is end of Arsenal, he just want money, he's doing some thing at Colorado Avalanche.

Any Arsenal fan who is happy about this is pretty ridiculous. Money should come from SUCCESS like it did with Real Madrid, not sugar daddies like City and Chelsea.

What you guys need is NOT a takeover, but a new manager. You guys have a really good economy you just need a manager who isn't so cheap and could put the stable Arsenal economy to good use.

yeah almost all the people on here have no idea what they are talking about.

@quikzyyy: everything you said is irrelevant to the underlying principle in discussion. Football clubs need to gorw & succeed organically. Swansea is a great example of how this should be done in modern football. They're a tiny club (in the grand scheme of things) that were a few days away from becoming defunk but they started from scratch the right way. The supporters own a nice chunk of that club & they are the only club in the PL that has fan representation at Board level. They're seated in 8th place just a few points behind us and already have a trophy this season all while playing nice football. If football is to have a future, this is the template. It is the template followed by Bayern Munchen (and almost every other german club) and other very successful teams.

What's the point of all the sacrifices we've made for the past decade then? We could've just went down this road years ago. 

Yes, we have problems that need sorting but there is a way to get that done and becoming the play thing of a sugar-daddy isn't it.

I'm not going to keep going back & forth on this so let me just give you the bottom line: at the end of the day, I'd rather support a mediocre club than one that sells its soul. 

@MArsenal500 : No disrespect, but next time get your facts clear. Real Madrid and Barcelona are owned in a very different way. These clubs are like a private sector company which has shares and people buy those shares. There is not one owner of these clubs but depends on the percentage of shares bought by a person. "Socios" is the term. This is the reason there is a Board of Directors, and a president is elected after every term the previous president serves. Neither Madrid nor Barcelona has a dictator like the Sheikh of Man City or Roman Abramovich of Chelsea or PSG.

@naman93

And also Madrid and Barcelona have presidential elections every four years, deciding who will be the next president. To be president you have to offer something to the club, (e.g. bringing in a famous player [CR7, Figo, Zidane, Ronaldinho], getting an expensive sponsor [Qatar Foundation], etc.). Like naman said, it's very different from how EPL clubs are run.

@Dynatian

What did Perez bring to Madrid and what did Sandro bring to Barca? I'm just wondering.

Sandro Rosell brought the Qatar Foundation, and their millions, to Barcelona. :p

Perez brought Mourinho.

Ive started to think that this is good for arsenal as they need some wide budget to buy some players and recover their prestigious position in the EPL but, having teams like Arsenal (well known for scouting all around the world and creating young superstar players) having some Arab billionaires buy the team will just help them to become another Manchester City or PSG or even RM. For the good being of worldwide Football Arabs investors can not keep on buying teams, this will end in good teams not producing and just buying which we already have enough. This will affect the tendency of having future stars being born out of scouting systems or team's younger divisions (canteras). 

Summarizing, Good for arsenal for a period of 5 years, bad for football in general. 

Like Tuanis said,If Arsenal is bought ... it is good for Arsenal and bad for Football in general.

Then they will also have some money to spend like Man City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona and PSG.

Those kind of investors never take into consideration scouting or the creation of talent itself... PSG Man City and RM will take a lot more time than before to create a football prodigy. Football can not afford to lose important scouting and talent creators as Arsenal.

we got owner who is not interested in our club, jut in making money, so tell me 1 reason why is Kroenke good for our club. I wish Usmanov will buy the club but Kroenke is just stupid american who is ruining our club, that's the reason i don't want him in the board.

@footaholic so you still support wenger and kroenke? I'm sooooooooooo surprised there're such "stubborn" arsenal fans remaining. Man, you should be more realistic. Arsenal is one of the biggest clubs in europe. That means it needs some "enormous" investments to emerge. You reckoned swansea but it's lower leveled club and you shouldn't say arsenal is supposed to follow 'em. You would rather talk about munich; this team often makes several "big" signings every summer but no one except german rivals criticizes 'em. Tottenham, your opponent in north london, is also growing and succeeding organically with the proper amount of investment; needless to say, there's none humiliating their purchasing - rather, a number of experts even appreciate it. Spending money can't be criticized itself because it's crucial in the modern football. You can never say selling super stars every season is desirable for the future football. 

Footaholic is right of course but doesnt surprise me to see all other 'fans' of that club disagree with him. footaholic is wrong when he says afc have stuck to their traditions. there is no traditions at that club. they were from the other side of london with a different name - they were called dial up my square i think ? - and just invaded north london. i know this cos i read many times. they also got promoted to the top league by finishing 7th or 8th in div 2 but gave monies to cheat there way to promotion. arsenal has no tradition. it is an immoral club built on lies and frauds.

@all who think Madrid was always a big spender. .... 

FYI, Real Madrid had one of the best youth system back in 80s. John Cryuff himself said that he was inspired to some extent by their rivals home grown players and this inspired him to start Barca's Academy called La Masia.

So I think, judging 111 years of Madrid by just 10 years of Galacticos Era is unfair. These 10 years have been a bit Cash Driven but Real Madrid was and is more than that.

I bet people who are more than 30 years of age on this forum know what I mean coz they had seen more football than me.