This is awesome news, not because they’re Arabs but because they have money. These are people who wipe their ass with the kind of money Barcelona would pay for an Henry transfer. All this weight put on English ownership is overrated, it doesn’t matter who your owner is anymore. We live in the world of capitalization and globalization so it doesn’t matter where your boss is from as long as he can pay the bills. And we all know Arabs can pay bills. Since they can’t buy their country a decent squad (I mean, how many citizenships can you dole out?) they’ve decided to do it internationally and we all should be thankful to that.

All this depressing talk of “we can’t buy players this year because we built a stadium” goes out the window and we can give Arsene Wenger a good-sized transfer budget, something where he can negotiate more then just backup goalies and Julio Baptista. The best part about having Arabs as owners is they don’t know anything about football so there’s a decent chance that they’re smart enough not to meddle with club affairs and player decisions, and would likely give the manager free reigns to produce results.

Arabs also don’t like rebuilding programs and neither do most supporters. Even though we’re in the middle of a youth movement there’s a decent chance that we’ll make a purchase or two to win now as opposed to wait for success as financial returns tend to be a top priority for businessmen. So if Sheikh Al Whoever wants to buy Arsenal I wouldn’t mind and if anything, would welcome the move as it’ll pump in the money we need. What has having an English owner bought us recently that we should be skeptical of foreign ownership? I remember Wenger praising Arsenal for being an English owned club right after Man Utd got bought out by AIG. I thought he was being a bit too nostalgic and perhaps even stuck in the traditional aspect of things and unnecessarily gave weight to club ownership.

Man Utd and Chelsea have won the last three titles and does anybody care about their owners.  No. It’s about time Arsenal saw some of that foreign oil money, it’s been long overdue. We’re already an international squad in many respects, how many English players do we have? Walcott, Hoyte and…….yeah, not exactly any more notables out there. Our sponsor is foreign, our players are foreign, our manager is foreign, our superstar is foreign so why shouldn’t our owner be foreign. I’m not sure what having a local owner buys you except that maybe the guy might be a genuine fan of the team but does that really matter? I don’t care if Sheikh Al Tycoon prefers the sport of ______ instead of football, as long as he’s paying attention to the financial needs of the club and sees a big enough profit to add another 60 Hummers to his entourage, who cares what he’s like.