{"id":8240,"date":"2018-03-04T02:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8240"},"modified":"2018-03-04T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T09:44:34","slug":"aliko-dangote-wants-to-buy-arsenal-and-sack-arsene-wenger","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/aliko-dangote-wants-to-buy-arsenal-and-sack-arsene-wenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliko Dangote wants to buy Arsenal and sack Ars\u00e8ne Wenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Aliko Dangote coveting the London soccer team since mid-80s<\/li>\n<li>Plans to make an offer after completing a refinery in Nigeria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote\u2019s first order of business if he succeeds in buying English Premier League soccer club Arsenal will be to fire the manager, Arsene Wenger.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote, Africa\u2019s richest man with a net worth of $11.1 billion, has coveted the team since becoming a supporter in the mid-1980s, he said in an interview. He\u2019ll consider making an offer once the construction of an $17 billion oil refinery in Nigeria\u2019s commercial capital, Lagos, is completed toward the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0AD2E828-3A6F-401B-B653-A77CF1515C98.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0AD2E828-3A6F-401B-B653-A77CF1515C98.jpeg 596w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0AD2E828-3A6F-401B-B653-A77CF1515C98-300x227.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0AD2E828-3A6F-401B-B653-A77CF1515C98-100x76.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8243\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A743C832-7378-430C-A0D1-4A362E88BA6B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A743C832-7378-430C-A0D1-4A362E88BA6B.jpeg 634w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A743C832-7378-430C-A0D1-4A362E88BA6B-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A743C832-7378-430C-A0D1-4A362E88BA6B-100x50.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wenger is Europe\u2019s longest-serving manager. Since his appointment to the London-based club in 1996, he\u2019s won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cup trophies. In May, he agreed to a new two-year deal, ending months of speculation over his future prompted by his team\u2019s indifferent form last season. Arsenal failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, Europe\u2019s premier tournament, for the first time in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s biggest shareholder is American billionaire Stan Kroenke, who controls almost 67 percent of the company. Earlier this year, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who already holds a 30 percent stake, sought to buy out Kroenke in an offer that valued Arsenal at as much as 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliko Dangote coveting the London soccer team since mid-80s Plans to make an offer after completing a refinery in Nigeria Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote\u2019s first order of business if he succeeds in buying English Premier League soccer club Arsenal will be to fire the manager, Arsene Wenger. Dangote, Africa\u2019s richest man with a net worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[321],"class_list":["post-8240","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aliko Dangote wants to buy Arsenal and sack Ars\u00e8ne Wenger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aliko Dangote wants to buy Arsenal and sack Ars\u00e8ne Wenger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/aliko-dangote-wants-to-buy-arsenal-and-sack-arsene-wenger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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