Wenger extending his contract at Arsenal

There will be addon's for winning things........... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. so £150mil deal.

Problem is, Utd are moving from the current £23mil(or so) shirt/kit deal to £60mil a year with £15mil further for the rest of the kit. Arsenal are moving from a 55mil/7year nike deal, or 7.8mil a year to a £150mil shirt + kit deal(from what I can tell). SO the gap was 15mil and will be 45mil as of next year in Sponsorship, or Utd can sign Ozil and have cash spare compared to our deal.

Our Sponsorship deal is a little hard to break down, shirt and stadium for £100mil/10years, assuming the stadium name has some value, even if you call it a 80/20 split, 8mil a year sponsorship for a shirt is a terrible deal. Utd's is currently £20mil but will be £44.5mil next year(and growing year on year to a little over £50mil by the end).

Arsenal have signed a £150mil shirt + stadium deal, but this time it seems to be shirt 5yr deal and stadium 15year deal. How you split that up is anybodies guess, for simplicities sake lets say 80/20 again(considering length you'd assume more than 20% for the stadium but who knows) call it £24mil a year. Not bad, huge increase, but again it's £8mil vs £20mil and will be £24 vs £45mil. Again a bigger gap and less comparative spending power vs Utd.

Not a bad thing, we frankly don't deserve to have anywhere near as good deals, they have way more support and crucially success(they may regret those deals with Moyes there though :p ). It's good we're increasing our financial income, but we should have been on hugely better deals for the majority of the past 10 years, and we should be signing much better deals for the next 5 years. We're signing Utd level deals from 5 years ago when there was much less money flying around.

City/CHelsea will sign new deals and you can bet they'll be MUCH closer to Utd numbers than ours. Liverpools deals basically match ours, and they've been finishing, what, up to 4 places below us, no euro football some seasons.

The biggest financial blow isn't the 15mil a year stadium debt payments(particularly considering the 50mil immediate first year increase in income from that stadium....), it's the missing 125-175mil we've "lost" due to incredibly weak sponsorship deals a decade ago. Compared to Utd we'll be making 225mil less on the shirt/kit deal alone, another roughly speaking 100-125mil less from shirt sponsorship.


People keep blaming the stadium while having absolutely no knowledge of the increased income vs low debt repayments and the MASSIVE increase in spending the stadium has allowed from day one of moving in, also the idea we've paid it off and financial restrictions are gone. Considering debt repayment hasn't changed and is a decade away from being paid off, it comes across as truly ignorant when people suggest the stadium(and not the woeful sponsorship deals) was a financial burden and that somehow as of this season it isn't any more. It both wasn't a burden(50mil more income - 15mil repayments is £35mil MORE money we got, every year), but the thing you could describe as a burden, if really stupid, is STILL THERE.
 
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I did question his position at one point. He's done a fantastic job in keeping us in teh top 4 but I was thinking halfway through last season that maybe we needed someone to take the club forward as it felt we had stagnated for a few years but credit for Arsene it seems he's starting to turn it around. I think we've the best league record over the past 12 months or something like that. Not too shabby. Happy to see him extend his contract. Does anyone know the length of the contract? 3yrs?

Also happy with the new Puma sponsorship

 
^^^ LOL:D

I heard that its another 3 yrs he has extended for but not sure if that is true and we all know that Wenger always sees his contracts out.

Im really hoping with the added sponsorship money from Puma, we will see more talent added to the squad in future yrs and not sell our best players like we normally do.
 
Can't really argue with that, leaving aside the daily dribble from DM he has secured CL knock-out stages for 16 seasons while managing the club in a financially prudent manner and has established a method of play that seems to allow players to slot in to various postions as if they'd been playing there for years.

No doubt there's been a bit of a lull and some duff signings in recent years but at least the balance is roughly zero vs the money spent by their competitors, Liverpool and Spurs especially. The showing so far this season seems enough to justify a couple more years, especially as in the summer with this new sponsorship deal kicking in I reckon there'll be another marquee signing coming along.
 
Haha love that gif!!
Happy to have Arsene for some more seasons to come, there is almost zero stability anywhere these days (just look at Spuds!). No silverware? Realistically winning the league or Champs league is the only thing of importance these days and that will ultimately be down to City, Chelsea and maybe Man Utd in the future again.
To have 16(?) consecutive seasons in the Champs league is astonishing achievement. To play the football we do (on a good day) is extremely entertaining (and can be frustrating).

I also am very happy with the Puma deal, just because I prefer their kits and the fit (love the Italy kit!).
 
Wouldn't be a surprise. Although the amount we're actually get from Warrior is only £25, due to the way the deal is structured, the total value of our kit/merchandise deal is double that.

I remember that **** Tom Hicks mentioning that PL sides haven't scratched the surface when it comes to media and commercial deals. He sighted the amounts that NFL/NBA/MLB make from media and commercial deals compared to Premier League sides despite TV audiences dwarfing that of US sports.
 
You could argue that the American TV networks own Americans though. Sky reschedule games to get a larger audience, the American networks expect the public to reschedule their commitments around them.
 
I've felt for a while that if he fails to qualify for the CL then he should go, if he succeeds then I'm undecided.... other factors come in to play like what sort of transfers he does. I wasn't happy with the Ozil fee but offset against that he did finally clear out a lot of squad players.
 
This season, Ramsey played till injured, for the past 2 years every time Wilshere is back he's played every game till injured.

Walcott more due to the team was subbed in 3-4 games as soon as he was available then started 3-4 games in a row after that playing the majority of the game, and got injured. There was no, hey, 2 sub appearances, have a game off, start a game, come off early, game off, start a game, then sub in the next game. Then even when deemed fully fit rotate the god damned players.

he does not do this. Part of the reason we looked so dire against Southampton was, Giroud looks burned out and has done for a very long time, that doesn't mean he won't get goals, particularly due to the type of goals he gets for us. His interplay and 90min performances are WAY WAY down on earlier in the season. Ozil is less and less involved, a run here and a pass there does not make a great performance. Ozil is never rested, played in every single game.

The reason Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott are injured, Ozil, Giroud, and half the rest of the team looks burned out, is because Wenger doesn't rotate properly. No good being great for half a season, then everyone getting injured in the busy period, then dropping points in the second half of the season. You both need to rotate during the heavy period, and rotating before the heavy period leaves the players less tired going into a heavy period of games.

Wenger hasn't learned this in a decade, it's why the busy period always hurts us, regardless of which teams we actually play during late december/jan/feb. Every single year, someone comes back from injury, then he'll play them in every single game... and they completely unsurprisingly(to everyone but Wenger) get injured again pretty quickly.

Pellegrini is the same, I wonder why on earth Aguero was playing in the cup game and the full game. He came back from injury and has played a part in every game since, then got injured again. Just stupid, particularly with the bench they have. If Aguero is out for say 2 months and they lose the title, I think that decision will be his biggest of the season. You have a squad, use it, Wenger almost point blank refuses to, though Ozil even for Wenger, is being used beyond what most people would expect.

I'm surprised on two counts with Ozil, that he isn't injured yet and that the rest of the league has gone surprisingly easily on him. Wilshere gets the **** kicked out of him every game, Ozil really hasn't been targeted at all. City very obviously targeted WIlshere, and left Ozil completely alone.

Wenger has refused to learn, refused to change in the past 8 years, which is why he should go. We bought Ozil... wow, what massive changes. Dithering over the target we want in Draxler which will likely see him go somewhere else. Kompany, Hazard, Mata..... countless times this has happened in the past decade. Playing people till they get injured, no real tactics against the biggest teams, losing most of those key games.

Aside from buying Ozil... and lets be honest, Real Madrid phoned a bunch of clubs and offered him around, had Man Utd said yes, we wouldn't have gotten him. It's as big a coup as Redknapp getting VDV...

Real Madrid to a dozen clubs "do you want VDV, you can have him for a song, we don't want him, big wages though"

dozen clubs "100k a week, no thanks"

Redknapp "do I get a cut of the deal..... sure"

What else has changed?
 
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