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Topic Started: Feb 21 2013, 02:26 PM (20,311 Views)
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Yeah, United and City corrupt as fuck. Absolutely no precedent at all for this nonsense United are trying to pull. Let's see how biased that wanker ZZ is.
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Unreal deal, 22.5M a year for Carrington's name and training kit sponsorship. I think that is a representative deal for what is the biggest and most marketable club in the world, they'll get quite a bit of exposure through United's training kit + Aon are rebranding and need the exposure and they need to ensure that they don't lose presence thus safeguarding their credibility as a premium company.

As per, Glazers bossing it. You lads are getting fucked.
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Oi Mert, 30M a year for shirt sponsorship and stadium naming rights vs. 22.5M a year for training kit sponsorship and training ground naming rights, Arsenal's anus was given a good showing to.
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PHW is very ill, his nephew works for the daily star and says PHW feels cheated by Kroenke and Gazidas and would now sell his share to Usmanov.
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Apparently PHW doesn't even have any shares left, so the above is nonsense. However, as of today Usmanov is only one share away from reaching 30%. Surely he'll be able to find a random share somewhere and force his way onto the board.
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wow disruption on the board of your perfectly run club
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Arshavin, Squillaci, and Denilson all released. Frees up around 200k per week in wages and 2 non-homegrown places for the squad. Wonderful.
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Arsenal preparing to join European superpowers with £70m boost, says chief executive Ivan Gazidis
Arsenal are preparing to join Manchester United and Bayern Munich among the financial superpowers of world football and want Arsène Wenger to lead the club into this new era of enhanced wealth.
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Wenger’s contract expires next year, but Arsenal expect their manager to reject interest from Paris St-Germain to realise a vision that was conceived fully 15 years ago with the plan to build a new stadium.

In a wide-ranging interview, chief executive Ivan Gazidis has also backed Wenger to adapt successfully his managerial style to the imminent annual increase in his spending power of £70 million.

“We hope that Arsène wants to do what he is doing for the long term – I believe he does,” said Gazidis. “We think we have got the right person to make the kinds of choices and decisions that we are going to have.

“This year we are beginning to see something we have been planning for some time, which is the escalation in our financial firepower. It means we can look at some options that weren’t really in our financial capability.

“We should be able to compete at a level like a club such as Bayern Munich. I’m not saying we are there by any means but this whole journey over the past 10 years really has been with that goal in mind. "

“It really is time now for us to turn that into sporting success. We have a certain amount of money which we’ve held in reserve. We also have new revenue streams coming on board and all of these things mean we can do some things which would excite you. We are moving into a new phase where, if we make our decisions well, we can compete with any club in the world."

The new money follows the renegotiation of a series of commercial deals that were signed for a 10-year period in 2004 to secure the funding to build the Emirates Stadium.

Within two years, it should allow the club to jump from their current annual turnover of £234.9 million to join only Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Bayern Munich in generating more than £300 million.

It will finally allow Wenger to compete on a more equal footing for the world’s elite players. Asked if Arsenal were now potentially in a position to pay a £25 million transfer fee and wages of £200,000 a week for one player, Gazidis said: “Of course we could do that. We could do more than that.”

The club’s main transfer priority this summer is a new striker, with Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Higuaín the most prominent target although they are also considering a move for Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney.

Although Wenger has the reputation for being overly cautious in the transfer market, Gazidis has only praise for the way the manager has kept Arsenal competitive with “one hand behind our back” over recent seasons.

“It’s going to be the players that Arsène believes in,” said Gazidis. “He is pretty blind to price tags or reputations. He looks at what he sees with his eyes and makes judgments based on that.

“There is no ideological narrative at stake here. The ideological narrative is we want to have the best possible players, the best possible team and compete for trophies. There is no philosophical line in the sand.

“There haven’t been rules. When you come back to the ‘socialist’ wage structure or limit on transfer fees, these things don’t really exist.”

Asked repeatedly if there would be “big-name” signings, Gazidis said: “If Arsène thinks that’s the right thing to do, yes. Fans obviously always want to see big-name players and sometimes they can be the critical ingredient but sometimes the critical ingredients are a little bit more complex.

"For Arsène, it’s a question of getting the right players, the ones he believes in, not necessarily the players the fans want.

“We have outperformed our spend, in virtually any metric you can look at, consistently for the last 15 years. It’s an extraordinary record. It doesn’t happen by accident. He’s very disciplined about his beliefs and how he wants to structure a team. He has new tools available to him financially and I think he’ll make good use of them.”

So can Wenger work as effectively with a large budget as he has developing players while making a profit on transfers? “Yes, but I think that Arsène will always be somebody who gives chances to young players,” said Gazidis.

“I think he’ll always be out on the training ground, developing talent. But do I think that means he can’t appreciate world-class ­established talent and make bold decisions? I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive.”

Following the departures over the past two years of Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Gaël Clichy, Alex Song and Robin van Persie, there is also the guarantee that the club will not sell any key players this season.

Gazidis believes that it is realistic for Arsenal to think they could win the Premier League next season but accepts that will depend on the improvements that are made.

Although Arsenal intend to deal with Wenger’s contract “very quietly behind closed doors” before making an announcement, the board’s assessment of this past season is mixed.

“We have been through a difficult and in some ways disappointing season which ended satisfactorily,” said Gazidis. “I do think we have been resilient and consistent. It is not ultimately where we want to be with moving the club forward.

“The disappointment is we haven’t challenged this season to win a trophy. We want to be a club that is competing to win the Premier League and competing to win the Champions League.”
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Superpowers lmao, one step at a time ffs. Winning the League Cup and securing a Top 4 finish would be a dream season for Arsenal next season, no joke.
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Jun 6 2013, 10:57 PM
Winning the League Cup and securing a Top 4 finish would be a dream season for Arsenal next season, no joke.
No it wouldn't.
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IG: "Look as a chief executive it is always an interesting position because you are, on the one hand, it is imperative you are realistic and ambitious about where you want to go but also realistic about what you need to do to get there. At the same time you are also a cheerleader for the club. So walking that line and getting the right tone is sometimes challenging. Look at the end of the season we finished on 73 points, that is more than last year and more again than the season before that when we had van Persie, Fabregas and Nasri. I am not going to present that as a step forward for the club, but I do think we have been resilient and consistent through this period. The disappointment is we haven't challenged this season to win a trophy. That is my ambition, that is Stan Kroenke's ambitions, that is the ambition of the board, that is Arsene's ambition and that is the ambition of our players. So we get to the end of the season and we had to have a very strong run, which required a lot of strength within the club to achieve - and there is certainly a feeling of relief at having achieved that goal. But the is not really the goal we want to be aiming for at the end of the season.

"The critical thing about that is to work out how we don't have to go through all of that again and we can go through next season and put ourselves in a position where we are really competing for major trophies towards the end of the season. And that is going to require forward progression. I think everybody realises that. There has been a long-term plan in place at this club. You are probably all sick of hearing me talk about it. The plan is incredibly ambitious and we are ahead of that plan in terms of what we are achieving off the field. The key is to translate all of that now onto the field because of course you have a chicken and egg here and you need the financial platform in order to create the sporting success but you need the sporting success in order to supply the financial platform as well. I think we have done a terrific job creating the financial platform. The club can take a lot of credit from that. But it really is time now for us to turn that into sporting success and that is what everybody here is focused on. It is how we make the right decisions to push ourselves forward on the field. I know Arsene is focused on that and we are together in that.

"This is not some veiled message about this is what we need to do otherwise something will happen. That is what we are all focusing on. We think we have got the right personnel to do that, we have got a good platform on which to build. The key to this summer is going to be making the right decisions without damaging the great team unity and spirit which we have - adding to that appropriately and I think we have the right person to do that in Arsene. I think he will make the right decisions and I think we will go into this next season with a lot of excitement around the team. We are not going to go through what we have gone through the last couple of summers with a major departure we are having to wrestle with. If there are any players to leave the squad those will be Arsenal's decisions and Arsene's decisions. So certainly we will take a step forward this summer, how bigger step will depend on how well we are able to execute over the next month or two."


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"Ok...there's an awful lot of hypotheticals you can come up with with every club about wouldn't you rather have this guy, who turned out to be a bargain, rather than these three guys who turned out not to be a bargain and cost just as much. You can go through every single club and find your examples of that. The way to assess whether a club is doing it well or not? I don't know any other measure to see whether a club does that well or does it poorly, than to look at their overall spending and compare it against their performance and when we do that with Arsenal, every single year, we outperform our spend.

"It's very possible to do it for a couple of years, either because you spend money a certain way or because you are lucky, it is extraordinary difficult to do that consistently over time. It doesn't happen by accident. We get criticised a lot because we are perceived as somehow foolish with some of our choices, or not ambitious with some of our choices. I don't think that is fair criticism. I think we do this, not as well as we can, we need to improve, every club needs to improve, but I think on any objective measure we do this well."
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Here is the Q and A transcript http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-chief-ivan-gazidis-qa-1936217
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Jun 6 2013, 11:00 PM
elcule
Jun 6 2013, 10:57 PM
Winning the League Cup and securing a Top 4 finish would be a dream season for Arsenal next season, no joke.
No it wouldn't.
So what exactly do you want from the season?!?! You're not finishing in that top three, no doubts about that. Without a cup for eight years, I don't think you're a side that can start demanding a trophy. Every fucking season...
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Would finishing 4th and winning the FA Cup or Europa League (hypothetically suggesting you finished 3rd in CL groups) be a brilliant season?
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Jun 6 2013, 11:16 PM
DaG
Jun 6 2013, 11:00 PM
elcule
Jun 6 2013, 10:57 PM
Winning the League Cup and securing a Top 4 finish would be a dream season for Arsenal next season, no joke.
No it wouldn't.
So what exactly do you want from the season?!?!
Win the PL or Champions League.
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