Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith has for the first time lifted the lid on her thoughts regarding her departure from the board of Arsenal and revealed there was a “war” between David Dein and Danny Fiszman within the corridors of power at the Emirates.
The former major shareholder in the Gunners, who sold her Arsenal shares amounting to 15.9% of club’s stake to Stan Kroenke, says she doesn’t think the return of Dein to the fold would necessarily be a good thing for the club.
Arsenal director Fiszman died in April aged 66, just three days after the sale of his stake to billionaire Kroenke allowed the American to complete his Arsenal takeover.
In a series of messages on her Twitter account, she reveals that she thinks Dein was the root of all the trouble at the club and that he can’t work alongside board members and suggests he is a troublemaker. Here are her Tweets in response to questions posed by the Arsenal Twitter community.
“No Dein. Root cause of all the troubles at AFC. Unable to work with other board members. Mine would include Wilson/Miles/Dein/Deighton.”
“No, but everything points of DD who is connected to Usmanov. Would you care to enlighten us as to why you were asked to leave the board? Nothing to do with Usmanov was it?”V
“Nothing to do with his dep. It was war at AFC between Dein and Fiszman. I just happened to caught in the cross fire. Always seemed to me that Dein wanted best for the club. Dip in form coincided with him leaving the club.”
“I do not know him. So you’re completely denying your removal from the board had anything to do with Usmanov?”
“sadly it is an end of an era.RT but you didnt follow DD and sell to Usmanov, so are we to assume you agree with the KSE direction?”
“No not all. I am sad for the end of an era. why not? Do you have a personal vendetta? Because its clear Dein did great things for Arsenal, Nina.”
“Red &White;are major shareholders. Of course I have met them. Intro by the way by Dein. To clear up confusion I’m correct in assuming you’ve never had any contact with anyone associated in any way with Red&White;?”
“Tim, Dein and Arsene always had a good rapport. Hi Nina, last week you said Dein was only person with genuine ‘rapport’ with Wenger. How would u address this for afc good?”
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