** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **
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Perhaps there's some kind of World Wide Web or Internet thingy that you could use to develop some kind of video sharing site?
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We have been after him for a while now, we heard we were going to get him last week. I think they describe him as a "Promising youngster"
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Pacheco off to rayo on season loan.
Good move for him and us
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Just sell the guy imo. If he's not good enough already when will he be?
Last September, according to a Guardian article, the total debt at Arsenal was £136m. That was £70m lower than the previous February. Assuming the same sort of fall again, plus the transfers of Fabregas, JET, Clichy and Eboue we should be under £50m in debt. Total.
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He was till he signed for Arsenal, he'll for sure be a crap winger within a day or two
As for the stadium, Arsenal were going to do that if Wenger was there or not, I personally find it a bit irksome that Wenger gets credit for a stadium that simply handed him the ability to increased wages by 50%, which he has done, with no increase in quality but a distinct decrease.
People seem to forget that, we used to take in a significantly smaller amount of money every year, our wages have gone from 65mil or so at Highbury to 110mil at the Emirates without making a loss(yet). Wenger decided to reward poor players with increasing wages while deteriorating the quality of the squad. There has been NO change in the ability to make transfers, if our wages were at 80mil, we'd have made a 30mil profit and he'd have 30mil more to spend.
This is 100% Wenger's choice and doing, and as such, massive failing. Eboue on 3mil a year for 4 years and barely playing for 2 of them, Vela on 2 mil a year and playing all of around 6 prem games in 3 seasons. Doubling Ade's wages, though we fluked into stupid City wanting to buy him. Which idiot manager wants to throw 110k a week at a VERY average Nasri which would cost an extra 3mil a year or so?
Do we need 37 strikers and no DM's. I've said it time and time again, transfer fee's are almost irrelevant and our board has promised time and time again they WILL invest if asked to, Wenger hasn't asked.
We have a cash balance of, over 100mil IIRC, as well as essentially breaking even every year so we can, sell Denilson, save 40k a week, buy a real footballer for 10mil give him 40k a week, and basically be in the same position but with a better player.
Our sponsorship is making, over the 10 year deal, around 150-200mil less tha similarly top teams, and we made this deal when we were one of the top two teams regularly winning titles.
How much will Squillaci be on, how much have we paid Jet over the past 4 years to sell him for 1mil when he's a FAR better player than that.
Arsenal have made increased profits after the debt repayments since moving to the Emirates, up until the wages increased to the point we're not really making any more profit than we used to, however we have now reached exactly the same point we were at when at Highbury, pretty much every year at the Emirates up till last year we had more profit, more money going into our cash account and more money to spend.
Wenger's already told us he can spend, he clearly has money, he KNEW we were gettgin 30mil+ for Fabregas months ago and he could have spent that 6 weeks ago on a replacement, but he won't spend.
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Thats not how the debt will work, firstly we don't need to pay that amount back every year, and we won't. The excess paying back came from redeveloping Highbury with flats which were basically sold down to the last few last year. So pretty much no more lump sums of 70mil paying off the debt, unless of course Kronke wants to, which is perfectly possible.
Theres no need though, we've got a great deal, we make more than enough profit to pay off our debt repayments every year, its a non issue. We don't have to pay it back for another, god knows how many years, its low interest and will get paid back gradually without any issues at all.
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You've been ruining one a season for so long now, it's time to step it up a notch.
That's a very large assumption given that from my understanding Arsenal's revenue will be way down this year due to lower revenue from the sale of flats around Highbury.
You can't assume the same sort of fall though as you haven't got another 350 odd apartments to sell.
£80m in one year from 09/2010 to 09/2011 vs £70m from 02/2010 to 09/2010.
I think it is certainly reasonable to assume there is a £80m fall in debt over the last season.
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I don't think anyone here believes that either. That is why there is a lot of frustration about signing people. With Nasri going over the next few days then we could comfortably spend £50m and still make a profit from the sales going out. I would love a new CB. Cahill first choice as he seems more in our mould but better lol Would be a mean partnership with Verm.
That would only cost about £15-18m leaving £32-35m for a CM or two. We have both the wings covered with all the strikers we have signed lately
Ideally I would like Cahill, Hazard and Mata. I sill don't think we would be as strong as we were with Fab but we would be able to fight for the 4th place CL spot.
Without that sort of signing then I think we would be VERY VERY fortunate to get that forth spot with City, Chelski and Utd almost confirmed top three this year.
Do you realise how Arsenal were able to pay off such a large chunk of their debt so quickly? It was through the sale of apartments built on the old stadium. Without the same amount of apartments (if any at all) to be sold, how do you think they're going to continue to pay off the debt in such large chunks?
Bloodline, I think you've forgot that Arsenal are absolutely desperate for a LB. That position isn't a matter of improvement, it's flat out desperation for a player there. Gibbs will last 10 mins, Traore is going on loan and is useless anyway, and Vermaelen not in the centre is ruining the only good thing about the defence.
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