Episode 436 - Billionaires

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Football, Arsenal, Premier League, Gunners, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Sport, Soccer

4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode I chat to James Montague, author of a new book entitled: The Billionaires Club – The Unstoppable Rise of Football's Super-rich Owners. James writes about the increasing influence of extremely wealthy owners of football clubs, primarily in the Premier League, but across football in general too. What effect is it having on the game? What might it mean for football in the future? And with most of Arsenal's shares owned by Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov, there's a real Arsenal perspective in this too.

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0:28.4	Hello there, welcome to a surprise R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.
1:27.4	The new book is called James Montague.
1:40.6	The book is called The Billionaires Club.
1:42.8	The unstoppable rise of football super rich owners.
1:45.6	It looks at the way football clubs are now increasingly being run and managed and owned
1:50.1	by extremely wealthy people from all over the world.
1:53.5	The book is in more or less four parts.
1:56.4	One is Eastern Europe including Russia etc etc.
1:59.9	Then we've got America, Asia and then the Middle East.
2:03.0	And of course Arsenal are in a situation where the majority of our shares are owned by one man
2:08.5	but the majority of the rest of the shares are owned by another man, Allie Shoruzmanoff.
2:12.5	So we've got two billionaires owners, two billionaires shareholders I should say.
2:18.2	Well it's a complicated situation.
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