Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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I really wish people wouldn't give Wenger credit for off field things, the stadium is fantastic, it would have been made without Wenger there. Our owners have run Arsenal as a business making profit, and thats what led to our ability to get loans and repay a new stadium.
They've also made massive financial brainfarts along the way, we're currently on a shirt deal worth around 1/4 of what Liverpool get, we get less than Spurs do, its a joke. Also don't forget that Arsenal charge quite silly amounts for tickets. Its more expensive to see Arsenal in a 60k seater stadium, having not won anything for 6 years, than to see current premier league champions in a much smaller stadium.
We make money by charging through the roof for tickets, and we made a marginal loss this year despite having expensive tickets and a far bigger stadium than several of the other teams.
Wenger hasn't had much at all to do with our financial success. You'd have to be a plain retarded manager to not push the board to get a new stadium, 40k capacity in the old place, most supported club in London, most successful club in London, 50mil extra to be made per season with a new stadium........ sorry but its not rocket science.
His attitude is getting worse on the pitch, his excuses have long since worn thin and his whole "philosophy" for improving is, they'll be older next season. Thats true, some will be better next year, but the usual, lot, Diaby, Song, Denilson they won't EVER be good enough.
Arsenal make plenty of money, we could afford more "big name" players by ditching the half of the reserves/youth squads that will clearly never make it along with the rubbish in the first team. Denilson and Diaby gone, thats an 80k a week top class player we could bring in, 60k a week for Theo Walcott, then play him out of position. He got a goal and an assist in the last game, both playing off the back of a CB getting in behind and both shots in the box. His actual wing play, was abysmal for the vast majority of the game.
We can be a better team spending nothing and simply shoving certain players in the reserves, we could make hell, 30-40million extra a season by getting a real shirt sponsorship deal done(15mil extra a year), Diaby, Denilson, Song between them would be on around 7mil a year at a guess. Eboue, around 60k a week, for a guy whose started 4, maybe 5 games this season, ridiculous. Chamakh, 80k a week, for a very average striker whose worse in the air, on the floor, holding up than Bendtner and puts in a lot less work, thats another 7million a year, and if we get rid of Chamakh now for 6-8mil, we'll make a decent profit, if we sell for 8mil at the end of next season, he'll have taken 8mil in wages.
