Spurs and Everton: The Race for 4th -- The Other Teams Thread

We won a trophy for hygiene at least!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...date-turkey--Premier-Leagues-CLEAN-table.html

 

LOL. Old Trapdoor has rats. I knew they had a certain dutch rat.

 

You leave Alex Buttner alone!

 

I would agree with this post. Unfortunately its a bit of both the board and the management. I know a lot of people oppose the Russian etc.. but a cash injection in a business is what we need to progress to the next stage. Their is nothing wrong with that. Great players will win us trophies, and increase stadium and commercial revenues. Is it taking a risk to invest in more expensive players, of course it is but such is life and its well worth it for a club like Arsenal. Sensible buying is key here. What we've done over the past few years is anything but sensible.

 

My issue with the "Russian injection" (which also sounds like either a professional wrestling finishing move or a weird sexual position) solution is that we have money. Yes, not enough to get us to City or Chelsea levels but enough to see us clear of our immediate threat to fourth.

As you rightly point out, our issue now is that we just are not buying. You could hand Mr. Wenger not just "f&%k you" money but "f&%k EVERYONE" money and it won't matter if he won't spend it.

My dream is that we spend what we have on our needs and then see if FFP is really the salve it is held out to be. If FFP lasts about as long as Lindesy Lohan's lesbianism, then we are in an unfettered arms race and yes, we unlease the Uzbeki kracken. But that isn't a cup of coffee to get you going in the morning. That is a long-term addiction where you have to keep it going to survive.

Sadly, if we come in 5th or lower, that is where I see a cash injection being necessary with all future contengencies TBD. We will need someone to at least pony up enough to make up for the lost revenues. If not Stan then I agree with the "Stan out, Uzbeki in". It is Stan's club and he is letting Arsene do this so he HAS to show that he'll make us whole.

If Arsenal was a body, Arsene has been feeding it cheeseburgers and fries for a few years. That unsightly few pounds we have been carrying for the last few years just turned into some worrisome pain in our chest this season. If Arsene doesn't address the diet, we'll have a heart attack. A minor one might set our thinking straight but I still find it hard to wish for a heart attack.

 

When you see things that need fixing and they dont get fixed and morale begins to sag, it may be because the manager is simply getting old, actually or proverbially.

 

kompany's red card has been overturned.
a bit surprising actually.

 

willian taking a strop, not turning up for shaktar's winter break training camp and wants talks about his future (elsewhere).

i really hope we don't go anywhere near him. we need huffy egos like we need a hole in the head.

 

I dont think it was worth a red, but as you said its a bit odd that they let it go considering the form the FA has in upholding bullshit.

 

it's not that. it's similar to the nfl reviews, where it has to be 100% shown to be wrong, which i'm not sure kompany's was, regardless of whether i would have shown a red or not. you can see why the ref gave it, albeit a bit harsh, and that's why i was surprised.
he did lunge into the tackle, and both feet were off the ground (technically he could rightly be seen as out of control which justifies the red even if both feet weren't actually tackling), despite winning the ball.

 

The sad thing is that if only we had invested back what we got from player sales alone, we would not be in this shape. In other words, all the money that we have squirreled away over the years would have to be spent to get the club back into the top 3 or 4.

 

214 million pounds.

 

we've made £38m+ in nett profit from player sales since moving from highbury.
why was this not reinvested, at the very least? that's probably 3 very good players without even touching any of the other monies squirrelled away.

 

38 million could possibly buy 2 world class players, not to mention the lose £100 odd million sitting in our vaults

is this club questioning life or something? is it depressed and feeling sorry for itself so it won't spend? either wenger or the board are incompetent, something needs to change or we become liverpool

 

the money from player sales went to player salaries.

 

if you'd done it 4/5/6 years ago you'd have gotten 3....that was around the same time we only needed 1 or 2 good additions to have a fantastic chance of winning the league (in multiple years).

 

why? turnover (excl. player transfers) has risen by £58m since 2007, wages have risen by £53m since 2007. the club has made £166m in clear profit since 2007.

 

if Walmart had a good holiday sales season then maybe Stan can borrow the cash from the Mrs.

 

Want to be amazed? 214 million over 5 years is 42,800,000 per year. Across a 25 man roster that is 1,712,000 per man or wages of 32,923 per man per week.

Add in profits of 166 million and the average weekly salary (from these sources) is still only 58,461 per week.

When you have as much dead wood who are getting quality wages (like we do), salaries eat up money fast!

 

thats not entirely true tho. IIRC, the club had a declining operating profit the last couple of years. We only made money because of player sales, and before that it was down to the property sales.

 

it is entirely true actually. there is more to the story, but my comment is indeed entirely true.

 

Pep to Bayern in the Summer.

 

yep, official. does he not like challenges or something?

 

Can we take this to mean that he doesn't like City or Chelsea? Perhaps, he is using Bayern as a stepping stone to eventually come to the Prem, where he could decide between Arsenal and Man Utd.