Arsenal richest club in Britain

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Now confirmed,

Emirates is a proper money making machine :cool:

Arsenal claim their new position as Britain's richest football club shows they do not need foreign investment.

Latest figures reveal the club's turnover has broken the £200m barrier after the move to the Emirates Stadium.


"These results demonstrate we really don't need any outside investment," managing director Keith Edelman told BBC Radio 5live.
"We secured all the players we wanted in the summer and manager Arsene Wenger did not spend his budget."


The Gunners have been subject to takeover rumours after Alisher Usmanov increased his share in the club to 21%.
The Uzbek businessman's company, Red and White, is chaired by former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein, who claims foreign investment is needed to compete with the likes of Chelsea.
But Edelman told the BBC: "We are looking at a position where we don't believe we need additional monies.


"We had £73.9m cash at the year's end and we are telling people today we've got increased cash balances at this juncture."


The move to the new stadium from Highbury means the Gunners are now generating more than £3m a game.


BBC sports editor Mihir Bose says Arsenal can now argue that this brings them into the big league of European earners, just behind Real Madrid.
Manchester United will have to put on another £32m from last year to match the Gunners - Chelsea will have to show an increase of nearly £50m; Liverpool £80m and Tottenham £127m to match Arsenal.


Bose said that Arsenal project that the "Emirates effect will continue to to produce vast sums of money for years".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/7009944.stm
 
I'm just happy Leeds tipped 30k attendance this weekend (and won their 7th game on the bounce) :p
 
I'm just happy Leeds tipped 30k attendance this weekend (and won their 7th game on the bounce) :p

What's that now? 6 points? :p

I imagine they make more at Ashburton Grove due to hospitality\extortionate prices yeah? I have to admit I hope they don't get taken over by foreign investors who're gonna saddle the club with debt like the rest of the big 4.
 
But after reiterating that Wenger did not spend all his budget this summer, delighted managing director Keith Edelman claimed the Frenchman would now have previously unheard of sums available to reinforce his squad.

'I think we are in a very good position,' Edelman said. 'Clearly Arsene's performance and the team's performance on the pitch has been outstanding, obviously backed up by our very strong financial position.

'We gave Arsene a budget in the summer and he didn't even spend all of it on transfers and hopefully we'll be able to carry that forward into future years.'

He added: 'We have got plenty of financial firepower to makes the transfers Arsene wants to make.

'We had over £70million of cash at the end of the year and if Arsene wants to spend that money we will make it available.'

:eek:, why did we buy Eduardo with that cash spare?
 
Just wait till Tresor and Beckford get sold in Jan :p

We'll be champions by then ;)

Its possible that clubs will be in for them but we're out of debt now and they're both discussing longer term contracts at the moment, so the money coming in would have to be good for them to move :)
:eek:, why did we buy Eduardo with that cash spare?

Wenger obviously didn't feel like he had to spend any more than that, or that he couldn't get anyone that would add the necessary improvements.

He's been right so far :)
 
Wenger obviously didn't feel like he had to spend any more than that, or that he couldn't get anyone that would add the necessary improvements.

He's been right so far :)

Aye so far, but when Ade goes off to ACON and RvP is injured / suspended i really can't see him leading the line unless he improves drastically.
 
At least they are being reasonable, still much cheaper then tickets at stamford bridge and midweek cup matches are £10 a ticket for the lower tier ;)

Cliffy give eduardo chance he hasnt been here 5 minutes!! Anyway hes already bagged a few goals for us and has only played a handful of matches
 
I'll give him a chance, he does look quite lively on occasion and his movement is good but i think with the ACON coming up in the new year it's imperative that he plays well and creates / scores.
 
I think Eduardo will come good, he just needs a stint of games to build his confidence up.

From what I've seen so far he looks sharp and good in the air and when Adebayor goes to play for Togo I think we'll see him get a decent run of games.

Oh and Gilly I hope you keep them both and get promoted, we could use the 6 points next season ;)
 
Even if AW had 100 mil to spend he would never spend it all.. he would only buy players he feels is right to add something and improve the squad being it 500k or what have you..
he's never spent massive.. whats the most he spent on a player? henry? reyes? can someone tell me?
 
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