No doubt; he must've known the end was coming and wanted to leave the club with some form of stability. Still, we didn't know, and it's a shock when those events are so close together.
One of the reports I read on the sale said that his death was thought to be "imminent", but wow... 3 days. Sad.
Danny and David Dein together can be said to have taken Arsenal to another level. Dein by bringing in Wenger and Danny by his hard work in moving us to Ashburton Grove. Whilst there are many traditionalists who would rather have stayed at Highbury, no-one can doubt he raised the profile of The Arsenal. He lived and breathed the club whilst a director and was one of the few who felt it very important to have the fans involved. R.I.P. Danny.
sad, really sad...God bless his soul. makes me hate kroenke even more. he took advantage of Fiszman on his deathbed. the honorable thing would have been to have done this long ago when Fiszman was healthy, or at least waited for a while after his death. what an opportunist Kroenke is...
Every report I've read that's referenced anything close to this issue has said that Fiszman's children weren't interested in maintaining the stake and having a role in the club, and that he wanted to hand the shares over to someone who would be an appropriate "custodian" (which seems to be very much the word of the week at Arsenal). I've no reason to suspect that the journos know more than you about the subject, but you're the first I've seen to offer even a hint of speculation that the situation was otherwise.
Fiszman was a smart businessman, and as such, he would want to wrap up a deal like this while he was still alive, instead of burdening his heirs with the hassles of doing it through the probate court. You're actually dishonoring his legacy by implying that he was some kind of sucker who could be preyed up.
everybody is a sucker when the angel of death is hovering near your bedside. you would have to be extremely naive not to connect the virtually simultaneously transfer of arsenal and fiszman's death.
You've heard the term "putting your affairs in order"? That's what this was, obviously. Fiszman had already sold a large portion of his shares to Kroenke previously, and this was his statement at that time. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal.com-qanda-with-danny-fiszman Furthermore, it should be obvious that Fiszman certainly had better knowledge of his physical condition and the urgency of the situation than Kroenke. I find nothing odd about the timing at all. It makes perfect sense.