So Wenger has now come out and said we would have to sell our best players every year for seventeen years to cope with a £24 million annual surplus to pay for the stadium. Wenger apparently said,
“The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players.”
“We manage at Arsenal to maintain all our football ambitions — national and European —while having to free up - for 17 more years - an annual surplus of £24m to pay for our stadium.
With simple maths that makes £408 million still left to pay, given that we got £150mill from sponsors up front and £250 for the old stadium, I am puzzled as to these latest figures.
ManU have to pay three times that in interest and they still buy loads each year, then add to that what Fizman says we have to spend then either Wenger is on something or someone has a lot of explaining to do as I am really puzzled.
Yesterday was a fabulous day for us yesterday when reaching a million hits, it was soured slightly by a few of the PCB (Politically Correct Brigade), who for me are worse than any AKB’s. Let me explain, we had a little fun with Obefemi Martins age and a 3 people jumped on the race card and called me racist, no one else just 3 people
On this blog we can poke fun at whosoever we wish, if you don’t like it, head on over to another blog…
We are emerging as the new favourites to sign Arshavin, I’m not so sure he is the answer, but being as I just found out we have to sell Adebayor to balance the books I guess we’ll be buying no one.
So when he said last week Ade was going nowhere, he actually meant he was going and wouldn’t be replaced.
So why did we move stadiums? Why was that a good move, and what do we do with all the prize money? For champions league etc.
We were doing alright at Highbury, no debt, I cannot believe all this debt shit, if it’s true then anyone connected with the new stadium should be fired, many of our fan base, the board included may not even be alive in 17 years time, think about that.
And the biggest mystery is how can the spuds keep spending, Liverpool and Everton move stadiums, we make the most money, yet we will have to sell more than we buy for 17 years, this isn’t a rant, it’s a question.
So Arsenal fans, brace yourself for 17 more years of hurt cos Arsenal won’t be buying. There’s a song there somewhere!
Oh and after much deliberation the 1,000,000 comment came on the night shift and it fell in between Gnarley George and Evo, so as it was split, the Ferrari will have to stay in good old blighty! Well done to both of you, I’m glad it was a regular!
Happy Domingo Grovers, I feel like getting pissed already!
P.S. Arsenal are reportedly in for Huntelaar according to the ever reliable NOTW,
“Arsenal are keen on Huntelaar and he has confirmed he would be keen to discuss a move.”
We shall see…
July 6, 2008 at 9:04 am
1st
July 6, 2008 at 9:04 am
well i think???
July 6, 2008 at 9:05 am
haha! Well played Raif!
July 6, 2008 at 9:07 am
Well, you know what?
Wenger has just dropped the biggest Red and White hint of the summer…
Still don’t want a takeover?
AKB’s still all about the long term future?
Sorry, not me. No way will Arsenal fans pay top dollar to be a selling club for 20 years.
What a load of shit.
Bring in an investor ASAP if that is the case… because Arsenal fans are getting sick of being lied to…
July 6, 2008 at 9:08 am
I hadn’t finished Pedro
July 6, 2008 at 9:13 am
haha thanks Pedro.
good post, i got a feeling Wenger wants to Keep the Fans happy and not have a backlash by addressing us with a reason to sell Adebayor. but what he dont relise that most of us want to sell the Togo-Twat. so thats good news to me.
Bye Bye Ade.
and Congrats to LE-GROVE for hitting the magic number.
it can only get bigger and bigger.
July 6, 2008 at 9:19 am
Yesterday, I said on here something along the lines of being disappointed by Nasri not caring to sign his Arsenal contract until he returns from holiday in 10 days time and what ever happened to “the player cut his holiday short to sign for his dream club”. Somebody replied that players no longer have ‘dream clubs’ but ‘dream contracts’.
I was talking about that with a mate last night. Without wishing to sound overly nostalgic, it really is a sorry state of affairs. I started going to the Arsenal in the mid-80’s… growing up in Islington most of my school mates at the time were Gooners (Apart from the odd Care in the Community Sp*rs fan!). I remember the excitement of watching a game and trying to recreate something you saw on the pitch or on TV in the park or playground. I remember the excitement of the Littlewood’s Cup semi final against the Tiny Totts, Anfield 89, Italia 90. I imagine being a young football fan now – where your childhood memories of football are of Russian Gangsters, overly inflated egos and a league full of mercenaries. Unfortunately it is part of the game now – but I’m so much happier that my heroes as a kid were Rocastle, Thomas, Smith etc rather than money grabbing egos like Ade. We tried for a whole lunch time to perfect the move of ‘a good ball by Dixon… finding Smith…through to Thomas bursting through the midfield … it’s up for grabs now!!!’ – with your mate who drew the short straw having to play Bruce Grobbelaar. I wonder now if school kids act out contract negotiations in the playground instead.
July 6, 2008 at 9:20 am
Morning Grovers, well that was hard, not going for 1st post….. Bu I waited and waited ….
Great read Geoff, wished we had stayed at Highbury, and carried on the way we were, attracting great players and with no debt…. too late now I guess..
Arshavin - do we want him, if the Chavs dont then why??
Huntelaar - Yes
But now I know not to expect anything form AW, so I wont…
Weather is poor, and so is the state of our club…
July 6, 2008 at 9:21 am
G’Day all. Excellent stuff Geoff & Pedro, good luck for the next 1,000,000. I hope the hit between Evo & myself wasn’t one of those sheep shaggers/ram rooters
July 6, 2008 at 9:23 am
I think Wenger and Dein have been having one to many bottles of vino late into the night when i read this story. If this is true, (I don’t believe a fucking word of it) then this is something cracked up to force that fat cunt Assman into power. I don’t know what to make of it all to be honest, it’s very un-Wenger like.
July 6, 2008 at 9:24 am
Honestly guys, do you really think Wenger would say something like this? Wenger is smart and this just screams of dodgy reporting from the most-reliable-newspaper-in-the-world. -Roll eyes-
If he said that, it would send the big clubs running our way to take our best players and players wouldn’t like to come to Arsenal because we look like a bunch of desperate cheapskates. So IMHO, NotW is full of crap.
July 6, 2008 at 9:25 am
Now guys. In the NOTW that tells this story are also the two stories that we will by Van H and Arshavin. Estimated cost? More than we would get to Ade. There are no precise dates or location when AW was meant to say this. AW knows better to make such statements to his grandmother, let alone the NOTW. I think this is pure bullshit conjured by the NOTW. AW knows the financial status of the club and would not make it public. Even the AW haters could not find links to such historic statements from AW. Just calm down.
July 6, 2008 at 9:26 am
it just occurred to me that if this is true which i doubt.
David Dein kicked agsinst the move and as continued to say we cant compete
but hey, he was shown the door and we heard all kinds of stories.
but if this is not true will the club come out and say something.
lets wait.
am tired of this “we are a big club” but sit down and do nothing
July 6, 2008 at 9:26 am
Morning Rico. Sorry i got there Before you this morning haha.
also about what Wenger had Ment to have said.
i just got a feeling that Wenger wont say somthing like that. unless i see it first hand comming from his mouth, why Weaken ur postion at the negotiation table when it comes to the selling of a player.
July 6, 2008 at 9:28 am
The whole story makes no sense whatsoever. No one would be stupid enough to say this.
July 6, 2008 at 9:28 am
Highgate gooner, i’m all choked up. yes mate we were very lucky to come up in the last “golden age” of the game. Imaging some poor gooner kid who probably got an Anelka or Cashley shirt for his birthday…
On to all things morden and crap, is this just another Wenger smoke screen? We all know that the club keeps ALL its business to itself. Fees, salaries targets…Is this just the way to keep the prices down for potential targets? Or indicate that we will sell Ade…If the price is right?
CANNOT believe he would signal to Cesc, Clichy, Sagna, RVP (and erm. Well thats it really) that we are a selling club. Hardly the way to inspire and keep them believing in Silverware at Arsenal.
July 6, 2008 at 9:30 am
What AW has “said” makes sense except for the bit where he says “The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players”…….I can’t imagine AW ever saying anything like that and i don’t think it’s true and the fact that the orginial comments came from the NOTW further establishes m thinking.
July 6, 2008 at 9:30 am
I don’t believe Wenger stupid enough to said that words to NOTW.
July 6, 2008 at 9:33 am
saying we are a selling club would be suicide in the public i dont trust these quotes
July 6, 2008 at 9:34 am
explain to me this? why is our manager concerning himself with the clubs debt? is that not the boards issue to deal with? and surely there are better ways to deal with this issue that raking our team out of all of its good players. only good thing i can read in this is that somehow adebayor is considered our best player! this makes me laugh!!! this won’t come around by losing players on free transfers though arsene wenger.
also, why is all this coming to light just now. surely we knew after the dennis bergkamp testimonial that we would be able to get a full crown to almost every game, thus maximising profit from the stadium itself, and making sure our club was in the best position possible for the future. not making us “that gimpy north london team”. who did (or did not) do this research for us…
its simple business. debt is bad, especially if you can’t manage it, and selling assets is not managing debt!
do you have alink to the whole story btw geoff? i would like to read the whole thing. cheers, james.
July 6, 2008 at 9:36 am
It could be a ploy by Aw . IT could be 50% correct. Then why the hell did the club publish figures to show they were no.2 in UK football.they are raking imillions and yet all kinds of negative things are being said.
July 6, 2008 at 9:36 am
Perhaps Wenger thought that seeming as we could be on the verge of bringing in some pretty substantial cashish for the likes of Adebayor and Hleb.. it would be likely that the clubs of of our target replacement signings will inflate their asking price as they think we have all this money lying around. If Wenger tells the world that we are poor and any money brought in from selling our top players is tied up in debt repayments - that it will keep prices down.
July 6, 2008 at 9:36 am
tht statement is completely made up… even kevin keegan won’t say things like “we are going to sell our stars for the next 17 years”… and he is a phd in sporadics…keegan.
so i won’t be worrying my ass off on that.
As far as huntelaar goes… i really hope we get martins instaed of him… he will cost half of him… already played in the league, has age on his side…. and is pacy, strong and good technique. Huntelaar isnt anywhere near nistelroy.
Zenit are asking 20 million for arshavin… then ditch him.. no need for him at that price… 12 millions yes.
July 6, 2008 at 9:40 am
I am not sure about this,
It may be a bit of Spin from Wenger, he has done this before whilst in transfer negotiations to keep the price down.
However if it is true then I am one very pissed off Gooner. It is like Arsene has a reccuring annual appointments in his Outlook
30th May: Must keep fans happy, release official quote about buying world class players, and that the fans will be really re-assured.
July 1st: Release statement about he state of football and about how actually we cant really afford anyone (I know we make a profit every year on transfers and I have over 10m left over from last summer, but the fans are stupid, they wont remember that)
July 31st: Despite selling a few more jewells and buying unknown quantities, release a quote about how you believe in this young squad and they can mount a serious challenge
It also states that we are a selling club, and that our annual target is to finish in at least 4th for the next 17 years
Like you said guys some of the fans will be dead in 17 years. You probably only get about 70 years as a fan (the 1st ten are spent pissing yourself and not really remembering it) and he is writing off a huge chunk of that.
So great we have a nice new stadium, comfy seats and a nice view, yet we are paying for it as well, it is the most expensive seat anywhere in World Football. If I knew this was going to happen then we should have stayed at Highbury and rebuilt the clock end.
They are ones that said we were moving to be able to compete with the Man Ure’s and Chelski’s. We could buy the best players and pay the best money they said.
If this is true it is a doomed strategy, there is so much foreign investment coming in that soon the likes of Man City, Villa, and I hate to say it but the spuds will be seriously challenging our 4th spot, it may take a couple of years but it will happen.
So for me, I am still sceptical, he has said this before and the AKB will point to that, but I have seen no evidence in recent years to the contrary that we will spend some much needed money to mount a season long challenge.
Finally if it is true, then Arsene’s mate DD was correct last week so maybe not Usmanov but lets hear what Kroenke has to offer
July 6, 2008 at 9:42 am
If that statement is true ,then like you boys have said sell!! sell!!! sell!!!!
the other question i would have is
WHERE THE FUCK HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE .
250MILLION , (HIGHBURY)
150 MILLION(SPONSERS)
TWO SEASONS AT THE GROVE 38 GAMES X 3MILLION £114MILLION
NOT TO MENTION OTHER COMMERCIAL SALES.
I just cant , no dont want to beleive that on the verge of a new season , wenger could drop a bomb on us with this kind of statement ,if this is true then i think heads should roll ,his included as he was so instrumental in pushing for a new stadium , and I DONT WANT TO WAIT 17 YEARS FOR US TO START WINNING TROPHIES ON A REGULAR BASIS,
by the way congrats to Both of you keep up the great work………….
July 6, 2008 at 9:43 am
Have a good day all, got to do my ‘family’ stuff
Oh SSN’s say Huntelaar wants to go to Manure - oh hoorahh!!
catch you all later, its sunday!
July 6, 2008 at 9:44 am
Could it be that comments are true but Wenger is using it as a negotiating tool to drive the price of possible targets down.?
July 6, 2008 at 9:45 am
Dgob… come back when you have something to talk about other than the blog or the bloggers.
You’re an obsessive… concentrate on the issues at hand like everyone else…
‘Wenger apparently’ leaves the quotes validity open for debate…
But as usual, you probably just read the headline…
July 6, 2008 at 9:49 am
All I can say is it is impossible this is a bargaining tool. Our club relies on bringing in quality players who want to play for a big club. That tool would be smashed to pieces long term if this was the case. this is no bargaining tool. Arsenal has to come out and say something on this one.
July 6, 2008 at 9:50 am
Bye Bye Dgob
July 6, 2008 at 9:51 am
Yeah DGOB
Lets blow smoke up Arsenal’s arse all day with positive only comments
Sorry if I am not happy with something at the club I will stress my opinion
If you are happy with why not tell us why it is so great instead of criticising us
this is not communism buddy, its a football club that we pay a lot of money to go and watch
July 6, 2008 at 9:53 am
The boss is probably telling the truth about the 17 years. It’s ok for the younger fans but what about the older ones who won’t be able to hang around that long?. I’ll bet the majority wish that we’d have stopped at Highbury without that millstone of the stadium dragging us down. The sooner there’s a takeover the better for all concerned.
July 6, 2008 at 9:54 am
Here is the link.
http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/07/arsenal-go-for.html
July 6, 2008 at 9:59 am
So push aside the doom comments…
How about Huntelaar? RvP’s 5th dutch best friend of the summer!
Anyone fancy him as an Ade replacement?
One thing that did come from that interview was that he expects the young players to respect their contracts…
So again, no one leaves…
July 6, 2008 at 10:04 am
struth i didnt realise i was in the running for the pedro/geoff — spider/medeno/testarossa/fiat…
glad to be part of it….you lads make it worth while to talk the chat each day and i love it….
i think i first logged on in November last year and havent looked back since then! its a great place to be and the characters old and new certainly keep my interest going!!!
July 6, 2008 at 10:06 am
We should either get the Emirates to up their sponsorship or take Usamov more seriously.
July 6, 2008 at 10:06 am
Maybe, if Wenger did make the comments it is a prelude to the next comments that come from the Club that say a take over would solve the problem of existing debt.
July 6, 2008 at 10:09 am
I think it means that we have to turn a profit of 24m every year as an organisation to ensure we make the interest payments….not that we have to generate a 24m surplus in the transfer market.
Arsenal as an organisation has lots of ways of generating profits.
July 6, 2008 at 10:12 am
Queen of Suburbia
yes that is very true.
Like rise Ticket prices.
bring out a kit very year
charge £5 pounds for a pint.
Remember Arsenal is the most Expensive football ticket in the world
July 6, 2008 at 10:15 am
I’ve just seen the comments from Galliani regarding Ronaldinho & Adebayor & I find it interesting that he says Wenger has set up a meeting in Nice (I assume he means with all interested parties as he says it’s pointless him going due to the price).
It’s a shame he doesn’t say when the meeting will take place!!
July 6, 2008 at 10:16 am
What would be more surprising than Spurs winning the league? Mark Webber’s starting on the front row
July 6, 2008 at 10:17 am
good stuff geoff, pedro and everyone!
can we put fosters on for 2.50 and give everyone a mark milligan t-shirt?
July 6, 2008 at 10:21 am
Are Arsenal tickets more expesive than the chavs?
July 6, 2008 at 10:22 am
gnarley -agreed - i reckon webber did his qualifying lap with 1 lap worth of fuel and a big sign on the back of his car saying “if any cunt crashes into me - like usual - im going to get David Coulthard and his glasgow mates onto you!”
July 6, 2008 at 10:23 am
Check this out about goofy.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3784161,00.html
July 6, 2008 at 10:25 am
I really don’t think we need to worry too much just yet about our financial situation, I read Wengers statement and would also note that words in print can be very different to the same words spoken in an interview or in response to certain questions. If Wenger wanted to spend 20 mil on a cetain player, im confident the cash would be there for him. We aren’t out on the streets begging for hand outs just yet. Speak to an Orient fan if you want to know how it really feels to be a skint club. All this is the least of our concerns.
On another note, Highgate Gooners comments a few blogs back were brilliant and very true. Alas my friend the game has moved on from the 80s. Or we have just become our fathers and can now spout the words “Its not like it was in our day”.
July 6, 2008 at 10:26 am
That’s the excuse he (AW) found for his poor coaching for the last four years.
July 6, 2008 at 10:27 am
Well this all goes along with an e-mail I received a few months ago that said we are a lot worse off that we make out… and Wenger has been covering the boards ass.
I’m looking forward to hearing Wenger distancing himself from the comments… but newspapers don’t often embellish quotes? I can’t think of the last time the papers made something up (With quotes…)?
£24million should be easily serviced… after all, we make £3mill a match!
If it is going to take 17 years to service the debt… an investor looks all the more appealing, wouldn’t you think?
Usmanov vs Selling club for 17 years?
What would you take?
July 6, 2008 at 10:27 am
London -
i heard that ours is the most expensive in london (no pun intended)
also the bigger the game the higher the price goes up. so if we was to be playing Sunderland the price will stay at somthing like 25/30 somthing pounds.
Play teams like Man Utd and it goes up to somthing like 35/40 + pounds
July 6, 2008 at 10:32 am
Honestly lads, any supporter of a team from the lower bowels of the footballing leagues would be reading our worries through tears of laughter. We’re not about to go to the wall chaps.
July 6, 2008 at 10:33 am
Mornin all.
How can AW say after the completion of last season that his main priority is to keep this group of players together, but now apparently we HAVE to sell every year??
If this is true it stinks, how are you supposed to build a competitive team under these restrictions, it lays open the myth of giving youth the chance to flourish, it’s not out of choice, but a necessity!
My real fear is that Fizman and Co are building up vast cash reserves behind the scenes to make an eventual takeover very lucrative for all current shareholders.
And, in the meantime AW takes all the flack as the board’s front man, putting a smiling face on constant bad news, spin and downright lies………
July 6, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m not sure there is anything new in these so called quotes. Arsenal have made it public that they need to pay 24 million a year to service the debts on highbury. They have done this sinvce moving to the Emirates through tickey sales and merchandising. The annual statements highlighted a profit after servicing the debt that excluded player sales (I think). So the news of the world have re hashed an old story re us needing to service debts. Added to it Wenger saying he does not like they way players are now chasing only the money, added in Arsenal secrecy over deals (this really pisses the hacks of as we are one of the big clubs but give no tit bits for them to make their stories) and come up with Arsenal need to sell players for the next seventeen years crap. What is true is Wenger does not like to put the club into additional debt and that he has a track record of buying cheaper than the others. What is not true is that he has made a public statement saying we are a selling clun.
Me I still think we will get Nasri, a good addition and someone I think will outshine Modric. I think we will also get a striker to replace Ade if Barcelona can find the cash. Not sure they will and I imagine we will have lots of Ade never said that stories if they dont. Hleb who knows, I dont want him to go. I know he does not score but there is something about his play that just makes the others tick. Its as if he is a light bulb and opponents are moths, they are drawn to him. this creates space for the rest of the team to do there thing.
So its Sunday, no real gossip, Britsish Grand prix which I for one cannot stand, its like a procession with no excitement. Much prefer the motoGP. So Im off to do stuff with the kids.
Have a good one all
July 6, 2008 at 10:34 am
Wengers excuse for the need to move from Highbury to a bigger stadium was that Arsenal punched above their weight.
July 6, 2008 at 10:36 am
MorrowsBrokenArm
good point mate. there worries about survival and the millions of money they will loose.
when were worried about making any signings lol and i guess not winning any thing for 3 years.
its a funny one but i know what id rather be worring about.
i hope we sign some one soon and win somthing this year lol
July 6, 2008 at 10:37 am
MBA
4 points from the Title in May, could end up being miles from nowhere now in July. Has the club gone from chocolates to boiled lollies?
July 6, 2008 at 10:38 am
well, lets hope to dream for a moment and pray the the News of the World report is based on some element of truth???? Have you seen Hunters scoring record! Ye gods I hope we get him, and for 18mil…sounds a bargin.
July 6, 2008 at 10:43 am
oh well so huntelaar in and kanu jnr out…nothing wrong with that!
July 6, 2008 at 10:45 am
We’re not quite on the boiled lollies just yet Gnarley, cetainly not in the space of 2 months. that 4 points is made up with Hunter, and a top defender…im my humble opinion that is. Arsene has only spent 5 mil this summer, and the Ade 30mil aside, AW should still have a decent sized summer transfer kitty to spend. The wait is frustrating, but im hopeful he’ll be wheeling and dealing over the coming weeks.
July 6, 2008 at 10:47 am
I’ve had a few AKB’s in the comments section saying that fans who want success now are not real fans and that our business model is sustainable, so we should be pleased… and the championship manager model is not sustainable…
Well… Madrid, ManU, Chelsea, Milan, Inter, Juve, Barca…. Spurs… are all being sustained and they are no where near as profitable as us.
If your business model doesn’t allow you to compete… it is a failing business model, right?
If your business model means you have to sell your best players… again, it is failing?
The whole point of the emirates was to compete… so it is so far, failing.
Anyone who says they are happy to pay for the most expensive ticket and watch us finish 4th every year is a fool.
You pay for the best, you expect the best. Ask west ham fans how they’d feel about paying Arsenal prices.
Simple fact is they wouldn’t, they’ll pay £400 for a ticket, because that is the value of the football they are getting.
Will Arsenal fans pay £1200 a ticket for 17 years and watch as we sell our best talent?
That is an interesting question…
We were all quite happy at Highbury… it worked and we had some of the best players in the world… we appear to be going backwards now?
July 6, 2008 at 10:48 am
Forget our ticket pricing being the most expensive in London - it is the most expensive football club in WORLD football - there is no club anywhere else which has it’s CHEAPEST season ticket priced at £900 (though spare a thought for the Tiny Totts whose tickets are a tiny bit lower than ours - with no Champions League football and no league title in 47 years).
It is incredibly frustrating paying this sort of money and still being branded a selling club, seeing our best players being picked off by other clubs each summer - but what can you do? you are stuck to the club you love!
Even if you got hold of someone on the board and voiced your concerns about how you feel the fans are taken for granted, how it seems we keep spending (season tickets, shirts. programmes) and each summer we are kept in the dark - the sad truth is that with a membership scheme (Red, Silver, Gold) now running into thousands of people (we are now offically the biggest paid up football membership club in the world) - the club’s likely response would be “if you don’t like it - move aside, someone else will have your ticket”. It doesnt matter what we think!
July 6, 2008 at 10:49 am
think about it people since when wenger ever gon to news paper and feed them info about tranfer policies not only to reviele let big player every year would never happen. he is renowned keeping tranfers and his policies expremly private. he has also stated a number times publicly that he is not intertsed in selling his players, and evon further has stated that ade is not going anywhere not he hopes to keep he is staying that very infanic statment. the board has also staed that they will back wenger on what ever purchase we wants to make and there no set limit, so both wenger and bourd are lying.
remember these same newspapers has made the claim arsenal are intereted in senne for 30 mill who is 31,you cant always what read in the papers.
arsenal renowned for keeping a very tight ship
July 6, 2008 at 10:52 am
im still not buying this point about us selling our best players every summer. We seem to have sold a lot of our old boys when the time was right (Henry, petit, Viera) or when we had a replacement (cole for Silvinho, glichy in for cole), or when players spit their dummy and decide we aint good enough for their amazing talent (Reyes, Ade, Hleb).
we always held our best players until we decided best time to sell. If we truly were a selling club Cesc would be in a Barca shirt right now.
July 6, 2008 at 10:52 am
Grovers I am not defending him but I would put money on it, that his quotes have been printed in such a way, we all start panicking (again). All he is saying is that we need to make an additional £24m each year to pay for the stadium, which you will all agree is a fucking amazing stadium. I think in some way, it was a sly dig at the chavs, mancs, scouse or anyone else who runs their club at a huge financial loss just to buy the big names, whereas Wenger does unearth some absolute gems for pennies.
So
July 6, 2008 at 10:58 am
Sorry pressed wrong button
Dont panic, I am sure its not as bad as it sounds.
However, having said all that an investor would be the way forward, cos if wenger leaves, which he will one day, I cant think of another manager anywhere in the world, who is capable of putting a team together for the price wenger paid for ours.
Basically unless we get an investor, when wenger goes we are fucked
ps Geoff - I too feel the need to get pissed already
July 6, 2008 at 11:00 am
Wenger is as shrewed as they come. i think he is trying to relieve the pressure of expectation that has been created. First we are told that he has 70m to spend, then we are told the 70m is not only for spending but include meeting other necessities, we are told that we are the 2nd richest club on earth, that PHW managed to get a fixed rate for the stadium thereby allowing excess cash for spending. Now Wenger says we need to sell in oder to buy.
If you go about telling people that you have the money, everything will go up as soon as you show up. Maybe thats why the Nasri deal is taking for ever to be concluded
July 6, 2008 at 11:02 am
Oh, and just for the record, I am certainly no AKB. If we do have to be a selling club for 17 years and not win anything, you can stick the emirates up wengers arse and send him off to manage france!
July 6, 2008 at 11:03 am
Im no expert on the finer points of football board rooms….but Usamov, why does he have to have a majority stakehold in the club befoe investing. He owns some 25 odd percent or something now…..if he is so keen in investment in the Arse then why not cough up some dollars now?????? If he’s such a fan throw a few million our way to play with for fun.
July 6, 2008 at 11:05 am
Haven’t we always been a club that sells high and buys low? Before we went unbeaten, we sold Overmars and bought Pires for considerably less, sold Anelka and bought Henry for considerably less. Every club on earth sells players, United have got rid of van Nistelrooy and are about tolose Ronaldo, Chelsea have soldmoreplayers than anyone on earth in the last five years.The fact is, we just do it better than anyone else.
July 6, 2008 at 11:08 am
Arselicked - think you have hit the nail on the head, wenger is very intelligent with his comments, and i am sure they have been taken the wrong way
July 6, 2008 at 11:12 am
as I said dutch, if wenger gows we are fucked without investment.
I dont see any other managers who can “buy low sell high” and maintain a great standard of football
July 6, 2008 at 11:25 am
New Funnies!
Cheers Joe
July 6, 2008 at 11:27 am
I got a good idea for the team, why don’t we sell Fabregas and buy fucking Steve Sidwell, plenty of cash to be made on that deal!!!And of course, its the money that really matters! Stroll on, every day things get worse, and Huntelaar would be a perfect solution to fill the void tht was the TTer, but it won’t happen while I have a hole in my backside! Rant over !!!
July 6, 2008 at 11:30 am
well said Dave.t I have to agree notw just putting a diferent spin on old quotes .
Congrates on reaching your milestone pedro Geoff while I dont comment everyday I always read the blog and comments so well done and good luck for the future
July 6, 2008 at 11:31 am
woman goes to doctors with an itchy minge, doctor says “i’ll need to examine it and its better if i numb it first, that ok with you?” she says yes so he kneels down between her legs, buts his tongue on it and goes “num-num-num-num!! is it wrong to tell dodgy jokes on a sunday?
July 6, 2008 at 11:34 am
Little Dutch
That is an excellent point but that was a while ago. The two cases you mention in Overmars and Anelka were success stories but, I think the jury is still out on wether that has method has worked in the last few years
we have sold on Henry and Vieira and in my opinion, at the moment they have not been replaced. Maybe Eduardo will turn out to be the better player, but I feel we have been stripped of experience in a very short space of time, and we have lost a lot of senior professionals like Bergkamp and Pires who have not really been replaced.
I think the frustration for me is that we are close, probably only 2-3 players shy of being able to compete for the whole season and cope with injuries and suspensions.
And someone made a very valid point earlier, I think we agree that Arsene has been very successful overall in the transfer market, however what happens when he retires. No one else can do that, so how would we be able to cope then without investment.
July 6, 2008 at 11:35 am
FUCKIN NOTW them and the sun are always bad news for us WTF!?!?!?! i’ve had to balance out all this negativity by looking at the false optimisim on arsenal.com
July 6, 2008 at 11:41 am
This is all bollox… I’m getting really fed up with this… The way I see it, we are feeding the shareholders pockets… Winning competitions and the fans come second… WTF is happening!!
July 6, 2008 at 11:42 am
Oh, by the way I forgot to say before. Nasri’s agent said he will sign in 10 days time after he comes back from holiday. That was on Setanta News, in case some didn’t catch it.
July 6, 2008 at 11:42 am
Fitzman should go find David Dein, and kiss his arse till he comes back, with or without investment, he would help to sort out this mess we seem to be in
July 6, 2008 at 11:49 am
Wenger says this squad has potential, great spirit & should be kept together. Now he apparently says The Club has to sell its best players.
What is the agenda ;), it either changes monthly or the press are shit stirring. I’m in Oz, I don’t understand this sort of shit press so can some one enlighten me.
July 6, 2008 at 11:54 am
I hope that you fellow gunners at last understand what i was seying all along!!!!
the people who run our club just destroying the name of arsenal.
And wanger from my point of view is to blame to.
I wrote hear a few months ago that the board are LUYING about the amount of money that the club will give wanger to spend.Listing guys i fed up of moaning about the arsenal board,but i will say it again in short and simple-THE EXTRA MONEY THAT WE GENERATE FROM THE NEW STADIUM IS BY FAR MORE THEN THE YEARLY PAYMENTS FOR THE NEW STADIUM!!!
Every house keeper will understand the so so simple above formula-arsenal football club,has more money since we move for the new stadium!!!
You must wake up fellow gunners,and do something against these current board,because we are losing the present and the future of our great club!!!!
i was seying all along that the best solution is to sell the club,and i think to sell to someone who associate with mr’ dein(who love arsenal so much),is the the best solution,because at list we could be shure that we willl have somebody at the board,,who loves the arsenal,give mr’ wanger what he needs,and share the same ambition as the arsenal supportes!!!
July 6, 2008 at 12:19 pm
NOTW and the Sun have Arsenal hating hacks like Samuel (Spuds) and Custis (Mancs) This is just mischief making. The Editor must be thick to print this shit then say we are after the Hunter and Arse shaver. Contradiction to the highest order. I don’t buy papers anymore they just make me angry. If you want Arsenal news get it from Arsenal people. Steve Stammers who used to work on the Standard is probably the best hack writing in the rags today.
By the way if Wenger is the only Manager who can run a Club on the cheap then how do the other clubs find these little gems, does uncle Arsen do it for them then take a cut from the transfer.
July 6, 2008 at 12:20 pm
http://www.arsenal.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=507728
July 6, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Is everyone just ignoring the fact that these supposed quotes from wenger were in the news of the world, and the news of the world alone?!
July 6, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Wenger = Cunt.
July 6, 2008 at 12:32 pm
ok i was late there, well said el tel regarding thepapers. wenger isnt the only manager who can run a club on the cheap, he;s just the best. i cant think of another club that has such an impressive scouting network. what other club has brought in players like henry, vieira, toure, clichy, anelka etc etc on the cheap who have become top top players? blackburn with santa cruz and benni mccarthy were cheap, but not unknown. just cheap because of their attitudes.injury proneness. maybe vidic at utd? cant think of many other examples, arsene has more than the rest of the prem combined!
July 6, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I am not AW biggest fan and I think if we were to take the blinkers off we could all see that Football evolves. I said the other day we have got to the situation where we are worried about the outcome if he left. Red nose hasn’t got long left so do them tossers worry about that, i doubt it crosses their tiny minds.
We will move on after AW as this is one of the worlds biggest Clubs with the potential to be the biggest.
We have always been at the top and i don’t see that changing. I remember the old days 70’s 80’s when we were a big Club without the success GG and AW gave us.
I love AW but i am fed up with the people who think all our History will disapear if he went.
We are truly hated in this Country by the Northeners and our local rivals and writers of the rags have their own hacks who love to belittle our Club. They lie and make guesses and they ask Wenger questions because they know he will answer everything they ask, they then twist what he says to make him look bad.
I would like our Club to weed out those scummers and not allow them access to our team. I have seen the press room and the seats they are given to report on our games and they are the finest there is, but still the cunts do us down. The Club should stick them in a cold windy corner and let Arsenal journo’s enjoy the priveledge of our facilities.
July 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Asays
Unless you know how every Club in the world is being run then I beg to differ. Ajax have always had a super Academy, a few of the French teams do as well as us because thats where AW feeds from he doesn’t get players from off the St and who never played for another Club. The Spanish sides find players from the youth systems and South America is the unknown to us. Where are the homegrown players in our squad. Yes we have a new breed coming through but is Willshere a Brady or a Sidwell?
The Mancs still get players coming through and they are more succesful than us.
The more I think about this the more i think Wenger is over rated.
July 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Personally i think our press conferences should be shown on arsenal.com (free) and all interviews published on there, if anyone takes a quote………sue them, maybe we could let SSNs have access to our club but thats it, at least they seem to be mostly unbiased.
July 6, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I can’t wait until Adebayor leaves, just to prove what a cunt yet again Wenger is.
Calling Man United weak if they sold Ronaldo after stating he wasn’t for sale. Wenger said the same about Adebayor. So if he leaves, Wenger admitted himself he is weak. Which is all contradicting shit anyway, if Arsenal’s aim is to sell their best players and make profit each summer, why say players aren’t for sale?
July 6, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I think SNN are pro Mancscum and I hate most things Sky. I cancelled with them last year and don’t miss the shit they put on.
Andy Gray Richard Keyes are a waste of space who love to dump on us. There are plenty of others on that overpriced shit.
July 6, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Well done to the boys from Aussie on getting the 1000,000 hit good on yer.
July 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Andy Gray i agree is a complete knob and he definitely favour northen teams, but SSN seems ok so far they were quick with all the transfers last season at least (even if FIFA 08 on my xbox told me that we signed diarra)
July 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm
oh yeah ESPN are good too.
July 6, 2008 at 1:17 pm
El Tel, Treze & A,
Cheers fellas, Thanks for clearing that one up.
I off now, so bye for now.
July 6, 2008 at 1:18 pm
*I’m
July 6, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Dont forget this is just more paper talk from the Anti Arsenal English media, They fuckin piss me off, yes they hate us, they love Man Utd. Everything is to upset the club, the players and the fans. I guess they dont like it cos we are predominately French. My advice would be to NOT BELEIVE A WORD OF IT. Wenger would never publically say this. We all know that much
July 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Tel - how can you say wenger is over rated when he has turned us into a fantastic footballing side on a comparitivley low budget?
And yes manu are more successfull because they DO spend a big fat wad of cash on big players every transfer window.
That aside, I think its time to accept that if we want to keep up with manu etc. we need investment, so that we too can splash the cash every now and then on the sort of players we should expect to see at The Arsenal
July 6, 2008 at 2:14 pm
sure is quiet in here……………………
July 6, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Yeah Pedro and Geoff are not here, I’m sure there are quite a few posts in moderation, including mine because it contains lots of links.
July 6, 2008 at 2:19 pm
ah i see…………..
July 6, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I’m here too, but can’t think of anything too positive to say so i thought i’d keep quiet until my mood improved or i think of something positive to say…….
July 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm
hey guys, i’m not one to read all the past comments but here’s what i think…
le boss is very cunning and has an ace up his sleeve. there must be a player he is after but does not want the price to inflate. i dont see why wenger would say what he did otherwise. the timing seems suspect as well. i truly believe he is after a player that could get pricey.
Wenger is no fool
July 6, 2008 at 3:06 pm
maybe huntelaar, maybe arshavin….or maybe they are smoke screens. one thing is for sure. wenger is up to something
July 6, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Arsene Wenger:
“I have worked very hard to build this team and my first priority is to keep them,”
23/02/2008
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=487984&cpid=703&title=Wenger+-+Spending+money+is+not+my+priority
Arsene Wenger:
“At the moment the vibes coming out of the club is like we are going to implode but it is not like that at all.
“It is very stable and we are in a very good financial situation, we have a good team and good players. You have to let people talk then come back and win. I will be a busy man [this summer] but I am not worried.
“Like every big disappointment you have in life, you go through a period where you have to swallow, digest it and think where do I go from here?”
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=491441&cpid=703&title=Wenger+-+It+would+be+‘criminal’+not+to+build+on+this+season
13/05/2008
“The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players,” he told the News of the World.
“We manage at Arsenal to maintain all our football ambitions - national and European - while having to free up, for 17 more years, an annual surplus of £24million to pay for our stadium,” he added.
“The club’s strategy is to favour the policy of youngsters ahead of stars and to count on the collective quality of our game.”
06/06/2008
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyuyCrOJYfYjLNpobUWk_uXngMAQ
First the priority is to keep the team together, now that has been over-ridden by a statement that 24 million GBP is necessary to fund the costs of the stadium.
This was known about before Arsene Wenger stated that “we are in a very good financial situation”. Are we to believe that the clubs income excluding player transfers
DOESN’T cover the bills?
Back in 2006 we were told we’d never hear anything like this.
Keith Edelman:
“We ended the year with £36million of cash in the bank, in our our pocket to spend now, so we are very cash-rich, although we have got high debts, which relate effectively to the mortgage on our stadium.
“We have lowered our debt repayments substantially. It is a good deal for the club and it means we have more money to invest in players and team development.
“It is like an individual buying a new bigger house into which you have put more equity - you will have a bigger mortgage, but overall be in a stronger financial position.
“As long as you can service your debts with your revenues, which we clearly can, then you are in a better position. If you build up debt running your football business, ie paying people’s wages and buying players, that is a very unhealthy way of building up debt.
“If you have got debt as we have, because we have built a new stadium, which actually generates £30-odd million of extra revenue, that is a very positive attribute to have.
“That is a huge gate revenue for any football club and is the largest in the UK by a long way -it is way past Chelsea and even Manchester United, something like 20 per cent higher.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-406089/Debt–163-262-1million-wont-affect-Wengers-player-funds-insists-Gunners-MD.html
Arsenal total turnover has rocketed to nearly £200m to leave them trailing only Real Madrid for the title of the world’s richest club.
The Gunners’ move to Emirates Stadium has helped them generate an astonishing 50% increase in business to leapfrog above Manchester United and Chelsea in terms of income.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=424401&in_page_id=2
17/09/2007
Group turnover and operating profit at record levels:
- Turnover increased by 46% to £200.8 million (2006 – £137.2 million)
- Group operating profits* increased by 274% to £51.2 million (2006 - £13.7 million)
http://www.arsenal.com/userincludes/docs/results24092007.pdf
Arsenal bullish over £200m income
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/7009944.stm
24/09/2007
Clarification is absolutely necessary Mr. Wenger, the supporters have been assured by your policies of sel-sufficiency until today. From being Britains richest club last year, we’re now talking about a shortfall, and the threat of needing to replace our most talented players with cheaper alternatives in order to cover it. Is this a new development wich was unforseen as recently as May 2008? Have profits nose-dived?
July 6, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Back what have i mis- oh……..nevermind
July 6, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Bloody Hell
Chelsea have made an “astronomical” bid for Kaka
Only benefit I can see in that is that maybe they could then afford Togotwat
Chelsea must be moving to a 1-8-1 formation next season to accomodate all their midfielders.
July 6, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Nice post today, and not a hint of racism! ;). I’m so confused about whats going on with our finances, I really think these comments need some official clearing up on arsenal.com, it’s ridiculous that so many different statements can come out of the club. It almost seems like Wenger’s taking the financial running of the club into his own hands. This is completely insane, but arguably it protects the board from having to defend their lack of spending so they’re probably loving it. Keep up the good work, this site has a real community feel about it that I love, I hope my comment yesterday didn’t piss you off too much, I was just trying to identify why your post yesterday provoked some pretty angry responses. You got to that 1,000,000 in some style though, and its always nice to reach landmarks with a bit of controversy.
July 6, 2008 at 5:43 pm
So the scum got Modric and the other scum might be getting kaka and they already bought Boswinga and Deco……………… Here we are in the corner with Ramsey, yes Mr. Wenger im definitely feeling reassured right now…..
July 6, 2008 at 5:50 pm
+ 1 re: yesterdays posts. The regulars here are all real Arsenal fans, which means we understand that none of us are racist…..at all. There may be an occasional tounge in cheek comment, but it does not relate to racism which is prejudice or contempt for people of other nationalities. Our footballing heroes and greats hail from all over the world. At Arsenal the thing we are most interested in is how well a player plays football, we have embraced talent in the shape of many different colours and creeds, it is absolutely ignorant to state otherwise.
July 6, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Would love the Hunter and Arse shaver to replace Ade and Hleb. Just think the Mancscum will get Hunter
July 6, 2008 at 6:43 pm
hahaha Look at this link and see how stupid the ScumY S*urs fans are in the comments.
the reek of total Jelousy
http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/06/can-spurs-new-boy-modric-be-as-good-as-arsenal-star-fabregas-in-six-words/
July 6, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Why would Wenger talk to the NOTW?
He does most of his talking via Arsenal TV
I presume he is implying what has been said, so we get the most for the players we buy, and dont get ripped off buying other players.
July 6, 2008 at 6:55 pm
According to SSN the Chavs have no further interest in Arshavin due to the fact that they’ve signed Deco!
July 6, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Barca gave up on him too didnt they?
July 6, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Chaps, were these actual quotes by AW in a press release or an interview, or just reported second/third hand??
July 6, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I’d be very wary of signing the Russian, simply because of his ‘interest’ in Barca. If we were to get him i’d be counting down until we hear how much he’s always wanted to play for Barca etc etc……..
July 6, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Fact is, if these comments are in any way grounded in reality, everyone at the club from wenger upward needs to be removed as soon as possible. It’s a strategy of epic stupidity, and offers absolutely no more guarantees about the future than offering the club to an investor. In fact, i believe that this approach will actually Fuck us up in the long term, more than protect us, but our small minded, xenophobic board think they have a god-given right to run the club.
July 6, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hello All,
Quiet blogging today then….
The more I read the story from News of the Screws, the more I think AW is playing again with the paps - a little anyway…..
Two things in this piece, one is that we are a selling club for our big players to enable us to buy cheaper players……
The other is we are going for Huntelaar - 18M
Well, if all this article is true and being a selling club gives us a 24yrs old potent striker like Huntelaar, and we sell a so called big player called Ade for 30M - which in turn makes us 12M - well that is good business in my eyes.
Also, ‘big player selling club’ - I bet the club would not let Cesc go for any amount of money - we may be a selling club, but only of the players that CAN be replaced and improved on…..
I am not going to get too stressed just yet, give it just another week, then i may do
July 6, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I would just add one thing as most aspects of his alleged comments have been covered..
There is NEVER EVER anything positive coming out of Arsenal .. our news flow is completely negative .. whatever the veracity of this statement, it is just one more example of our poor PR .. why dont we have people putting positive spin on our club
AFC is gripped by negativity and adversity on all levels .. not a surprise that we dont win any trophies anymore
July 6, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Anyone watching the tennis??
July 6, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Why the bloody hell, when Nadal has an open court does he return it back to Fed…..
Should have won this ages ago!!
July 6, 2008 at 8:40 pm
watched a bit earlier………..gave up though
July 6, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Just a quick point but for all those that are saying its just the NOTW reporting what Wenger has said, well that could possible be because he does exclusives with them every summer!! He has given them interviews for the past 2-3 years so it might not be quite as much bulls**t as people think!!
July 6, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Federer was never going to win that deciding set with there being no tie-breaker. He never looked like breaking him in a million years.
July 6, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I honestly thought after coming back from 2 sets down he would win - but gld Rafael held out, well played
AW - go sign him!!!
July 6, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Evening all!
Rico, just watched the tennis, what a game!
i’ve just come back from a w’end in Lincoln, some little village round the (NOT official) Father-in-laws. Had an argument with a glory hunting midlands Chelski fan in the pub last night and then woke up with a hang-over to see this shit in the NOTW!
NOT HAPPY!
Surely Wenger wouldn’t be dumb enough to make those comments, it leaves us wide open to the vultures that are Madrid and Milan.
I tell ya, well pissed off driving home today for three hours after reading that with a stinking hang-over!!!!
July 6, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I had a tenner with my Dad when Roger Federer went 5-2 down in the fourth set tie break that Federer would win.
What a dumbass!!!!
July 6, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Wrighty - ab fab game, credit to both of them, had to listen to ‘me old man’ going on about, bad light, if it were cricket they would be off etc etc….. anyway, i enjoyed it and am real pleased for Rafael -
AW stuff…………… Dont get it!
July 6, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Evening all…!
I wanted Feds to win… I don’t know why, but I did!
Oh well!
BB… spot on… Arsenal clearly pay peanuts for their PR machine as well! Probably a bunch of students or something?
Wrighty, I think he said it… the crux of the interview was about players being mercenaries…
You know whats coming next… it’s fat and it’s jabbarish!
July 6, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Oh, and if you haven’t… check out the funnies… a guy called joe sent me in some pearler’s!
Evening Rico!
July 6, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Evening Pedro - has it just been quiet today or have you and Geoff been extra busy on an AKB weekend
July 6, 2008 at 10:05 pm
lool Adebayor vs Henry achievments classic.
July 6, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Oh yeah if anyone on here’s got Call of Duty 4 on 360 an they play online add me GT: blitz1993
July 6, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Tog Tosser - you really need to sign up to Le Grove, and view your Biography!!
Like I said earlier, sell him, get Huntelaar - make 12M, I wont care if that makes us a ’selling club’ - AW is taking the P^^S out of the press, I am sure!!
Fab Funnies
July 6, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Pedro,
I wanted Federer to win too for some reason!
I dunno if I can handle another 17 years of summers like this. I reckon I’ll go doolally!!!
July 6, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Phew
Laporta survived his vote of no confidence
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblespbarcelonalaporta&prov=afp&type=lgns
Lets see now if he comes back for Ade, or see if it was just an attempt to win over some voters.
July 6, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Think I just went into moderation, it might have been the link
Laporta survived his vote of no confidence so lets see if they come back for TT25
July 6, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Federer reminds me of Arsenal. All flair and panache. Nadal evokes comparisons with Chelsea. Strong, aggressive, and tends to grind you into the ground.
That’s why I always pull for Federer against Nadal. It’s a victory for class and flair. However, Nadal is not a cunt. Chelsea are full of them. That’s the difference.
July 6, 2008 at 10:52 pm
17 more fucking years, for fuck sake. I dont know how much more of this shit I can take. Its become unbearable and it hurts to be an Arsenal fan these days. Some of you are saying Wenger wouldnt say this but it doesnt suprise me anymore whatever this cunt says. Hes either lost it of late or else he doesnt give a fuck about the fans with his constant lies and bullshit. Ive had my fill of this pathetic greedy board who take advantage of our loyalty and money and their cunt mouthpiece Arsene Wenger. Its time something was done, its gone beyond a joke now. Ive never ever been happy that David Dein was ousted and its time to get mr Arsenal back. Say what you want about this guy but truth is we were a far better team with this guy on board and nobody can say this guy didnt put Arsenals interests first. THIS BOARD NEEDS TO GO AND DEIN NEEDS TO BE REINSTATED. I also feel that Arsehole Wenger has nothing to offer the club anymore.
July 6, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Paulie you just summed up over 100 other posts in to one paragraph, seems like we’re all united in anger these days.
July 6, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Wonder how gutted old AW would be if he viewed this blog.
July 6, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I had £500 0n Federer. Im fucking disgusted that he lost. I like Nadal better, he reminds me of Fabregas but I just thought Federer would win so i had the biggest bet I ever placed and I lost. Never again will I bet that much on anything. One last piont, Roger Federer is a cunt