Arsene Wenger appointed as the new CEO of Arsenal FC

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So Stan finally decides to speak after 5267 days of Arsenal interest and his insight into what makes a great throw in Gridiron was stunning. The football talk, well, I guess you’ve just read first hand why the old guard wanted the American in over the Uzbek… He’s only interested in keeping the status quo. As long as the dollars keep rolling in and the club get enough touch downs to qualify for the European Super Series, he’s happy.

“With Arsène, it’s his decision and only he will know that”

Any owner who comes out and says the manager should be the one who decides when he leaves is clearly not the progressive type. I mean honestly, how can any organisation in the world run like that? Alex Ferguson said a few months ago that the demise at Arsenal wouldn’t be tolerated at Old Trafford.

He’s right, it wouldn’t be at any global brand trying to become the best. That interview right there is why you won’t hear Gazidis saying anything different. What power can he possibly have when his boss makes ridiculous commitments like that? He’s been neutered, rendered impotent.

Stan Kroenke just appointed Wenger as the CEO of everything… bar the boring bits of course.

He said he’s been following Arsenal for 12 years, but then follows that by saying the Cesc And Nasri situations were unique? How were they unique Stan? Our best players have been leaving regularly for years now. We’ve 4 unique situations arising next summer in case you missed that memo on Stan.K@arsenal.com e-mail account you never open.

There’s nothing more dangerous in any area of life than giving someone carte Blanche to do as they please. Wenger is out of control and he’s being given an open contract to indulge his developmental management as much as he likes.

If I wasn’t so engrossed in what is happening at the club, if I didn’t have the benefit of recent history, then I’d read that interview and I’d probably be over the moon. I’m sure there will be plenty of muppets out there nodding along to what Stan has said today, his words were energetic, they were warming but sadly they were scraped off the same Pravda script Hill-wood, Gazidis and Bob Wilson use.

Never so desperately have we needed a footballing man with ambition at the club. I had this conversation with someone last week, who in our clubs recent history could step in as a footballing man? You know, like Nial Quinn at Sunderland, Zinedine Zidane at Madrid, Bobby Charlton at Manchester United? Well, interestingly, one of the names I thought of last week was Frank Mclintock. He’s a winner, an ex-Captain, he’s not afraid to ruffle a few feathers and he clearly sees the game and the club how it is.

“We’ve let in more goals from dead-ball situations than any other Premier League team. So you would think that somebody would sort this out and that will improve us by 20-30%, but it doesn’t seem to happen.”

Stan Kroenke told us all that baseball mastermind, Billy Beane idolises Wenger. He’s the baseball coach who uses detailed statistics when he buys players, unearthing under valued players who serve a certain roles in the team. He’d over achieve on his wage bill massively, very similar to Wenger. I wonder if Billy idolises Wenger’s past success, or the fact he can look at a stat like, conceding 52% of your goals from set pieces, and totally ignore it for 5 years? Why haven’t we got someone in the club steering Wenger on issues like this? Why is the power so in the favour of the manager, no one would dare tell him the obvious problems Frank Mclintock (I’m throwing it open, if you have better suggestions, drop a comment) can see?

This is the overriding issue at Arsenal, we reward history, ignoring the present and the damage it’s doing to the future. Looks like it’s a problem that’s here to stay though. Unless of course, the manager decides otherwise.

Robin…

Tevez wants to leave City. City want to get rid of Tevez. Arsenal have Robin Van Persie. We have each others paypal details. You do the math.

Would I be devastated by that move? I would be from a talent point of view. I would be from a captaincy point of view, I think he’s doing an amazing job. But if we could get £35million for a player who only turns up for 30 games a season, I’d say that represented a great deal. Providing of course, there is something better lined up than a one legged striker from a relegated 3rd division Bosnian team who has great technical ability.

Sunday…

So injury news ahead of Sunday is that Gervinho, Kos and Theo all have late fitness tests. I’d be happy going into that game with Song at the back, he showed more form in one match than Kos has all year.

Up top, for me it is vitally important we have Theo, Robin and Gervinho. Say what you like about Theo, he scares teams and he opens up back 4′s. Gervinho needs to refocus and think about his end product and Robin just needs to continue playing his game.

The midfield has been the problem, sloppy wayward passing has stopped us controlling posession, if we could play Coquelin, Yossi and Arteta, I think that wild give us experience to control the tempo and efficiency of passing in a game we can’t afford to concede possession in.

It’s a massive game, it’s going to be high scoring and with the right attitude we could nick it. That defence has to play tight though. Our full backs will be under relentless pressure and Ade will be playing like someone told him there was a truckload of football boots waiting for him in the changing room if he scores…

More from Geoff tomorrow… Happy Friday everyone!

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  1. Thomas. It's up for grabs now!

    RR..Yep that Telegraph post is fairly factual but with one error.. it says we have 115m in the bank.. the actual figure is 160m. And yes the Profits hanging over from the summer transfers are not counted.. we won’t see these until next year in the accounts and that will also depend on what we do in the Jan window.. so that spare cash from the Nasrigas deal is lying around somewhere added to that cash in the bank.. (depending on the payment deal struck with City and Barca… and if I recall the Barca deal was structured over time and not one lump payment so it is not so clear cut!)

    That rjagger cut and paste post is fairly full of errors and without research..

    If you go back to yesterdays blog.. later in the evening I posted some figures and stuff related to Man U.

    As both clubs have now released their 2010-11 accounts I’ll do a proper comparison over the weekend!

  3. Yippee Kai Yay

    “BOOZY says:

    September 30, 2011 at 20:07

    so Lawrenson reckons sp*rs would in by 2 – 0.

    what an ass.”

    Well Lawro is never right, so that combined with ‘Arrys Barclays Manager of the month / poisoned challice makes a score draw a shoe-in.

  4. Yippee Kai Yay

    IG, no only dubiously read, thought you might have been quick enough to move on torelated but different topic. clearly m bad.

    kyboard sartig to piss me off nowin dopping ltters.

  6. Radio Raheem

    Thomas,

    The ‘rjagger’ is a blogger like a lot of us on here so I’m not surprised he/she got it wrong. I’ll charge him/her for the publicity I have generated him/her!

    Early night for me. Laters.

  9. Thomas. It's up for grabs now!

    Timao..

    Your link above works fine when clicked… when posting just delete everything that appears before http://... if there is something like [youtube.. there

    and that should work and past a preview also?

    If not???

  11. MARK GOONER

    now i know there are some that want us to lose games so that wenger is sacked or the regime changes etc…
    but sunday is different, defeat to that scum will be horrendous
    whatever your views full support on sunday is needed

  13. Sammy

    Good Point Geoff,
    I enjoyed reading your comment; I can understand why Arsenal club officials’ believe on AW. To be honest, he is the back bone of the team and everything in the team revolves around his decision. The man is brilliant, he needs some wise advisors by his side to give him feedback, who could point out to him things he missed or screwed up. At times, he gets immersed watching the game, he forget to make the necessary adjustment to the team, like during moments when the other team make a player change or switch a player’s position, these are crucial moments requiring follow-up adjustments to counter the opponents strategy.
    Sunday’s game – I like the line-up you suggested, you deserve to be an assistant coach, I hope AW reads your comment, with the available squad we have now that will be the best formation for the first XI.
    Van Persey – I love our skipper, he is a world class player, but it would be even better if we could get Tevez, after all, it is only fair to take one of their player after they took a truck load of ours. To secure Arsenal’s future standing, AW should grow his young players now by allowing them big game exposure. Where is Miyachi? Young? Coquelin should be a starter in the first XI.

  29. timao

    cheers ivory i will try firefox next time. great video though. i’m dreaming of seeing arsenal make some tackles like this – djoruou should be made to watch this on a loop

  30. bade the gooner (bernard)

    My bro is having some kind of late BBQ with friends of our parents and stuff…. Its so boring I barely boozed!

  37. SpanishDave

    Lets be patient this squad is weak, no better than mid table, Wenger is no fool and he must know that we cannot compete this year. The AKB lot will not be singing very often and as in all dictatorships it will end in tears. The pain is seeing the slow decline and management with no passion to stop this rot. I really still wonder if Wenger really knows what this club is all about.

  40. Jackthelad

    Thomas,
    Gambon would surely want us to lose so that he will relive his love affair with ‘Arry and tell us how wonderful it is to be twitchy.

  42. IvoryGoonz

    come’on against the Spuds? Gambon ! Come over here, tell us what you’d really like tomorrow, no matter the views on OGL.
    it’s not on one game we’ll win the league is it? but at least be a victory to remember, rather than a defeat to not forget.

  43. IvoryGoonz

    I have a news, from a fellow Arsenal colleague from work :) The new FIFA game has a bug, Tevez won’t come off the bench :-)

  44. IvoryGoonz

    timao: if we leak 2, we’ll leak 4 at least ;) I bet on our players staying focussed and ignoring WHL and Adebayor, and tire them out hopefully. No injuries. and that will be such a great day to enjoy, even if that’s only the little Spuds.

  45. Dial Square

    Here we go

    on Thomas Vermaelen…
    It will be a fraction longer than expected [before he returns]. He will not be straight back [in the squad] after the international break. It will be one or two weeks later.

  51. leon

    looking at tevez behavior i can see why fergi did not want to buy him he would have effected the spirit of the team and i think that what have happend if were to come to arsenal.although song and fringpong are not the greatest footballers there are very good at breaking up play and very tacklers i would have them playing in far deeper role just infront of defence

  53. IvoryGoonz

    “Walcott, Gervinho and Koscielny will all be late tests and very late decisions — Saturday or even Sunday morning,” manager Arsene Wenger told the club’s website (www.arsenal.com) on Friday.

    “Walcott looks the most likely to have a chance. Koscielny maybe less. He is recovering well but the game may come too soon.”

  61. Wenger the liar

    Stan Cuntke – “Job for life”

    What I have thought for some time has been confirmed 100% as a fact. We shall be accepting bullshit on field and off field for a decade on top of the 6 years. It has become a game of who out lives Arsene.

    Will we win on Sunday? Who gives a fuck, three points or no three points we aint winning the league, we have become worse than pool fans looking back at history as a rebutal to United, we have become fans of a club that looks at the result of two games over the course of a whole season to get a minor glory over our shitty rivals.

    Welcome to being a fan of a club the size of Aston Villa.

    When Jose came onto our pitch after they raped us even though they had nothing to play for the AKBs made excuses.

    When Ronaldo scored from 50 yards against a calamity keeper who had been in goal for years the AKBs made excuses.

    When we lost leads against Pool, Spurs, Newcastle and on and on and on with school boy defending the AKBs made excuses.

    When we did not manage to spend more than 5 minutes over the course of 90 in Barcas half the AKBs said we were one miscontrol away from winning.

    When we lost by the biggest margin in 100 years the AKBs made excuses.

    When we sold the best player to ever play in the premiership and replaced him with some cunt from nowhere the AKBs made out he was going to be a star until he broke his leg.

    When no one wanted to buy Denilson or Bendy the AKBs made excuses.

    When we sold our best player the AKBs said ramsey would be a better player.

    When we were on course for a profit of £50m having sold two players, one good the other a world great, replacing them with no one, the AKBs said their messiah was being held back in his spendiing by the board.

    When the board said that spending was down solely to arsene and the last transfers were panic buys the AKBs said that we couldnt compete with other doped clubs for our original targets because of wages.

    When it became common knowledge that our original targets were not on much more money that abou Diaby the AKBs didnt know what to say.

    Qualifying for a tournament we have no chance of winning is the level that these fans aspire to.

    I have said before that fans will get the club they deserve and the seats that are empty are those that have voted with their feet and the “one Arsene Wenger” chants that ring out will see us all the way to 7th this year.

    “Job for life”

    Im now with Gambon, I hope the cunt dies because if anyone truely knows – Darwin Knows.

  62. kwik fit

    WTL good to have a real opinion back but
    ‘Will we win on Sunday? Who gives a fuck’
    Out of fucking order ! I and all arsenal fans give more than one fuck!

  65. Wenger the liar

    Kwik fit -

    Really?

    There comes a point in time that you have seen you uncle get pissed and fall over in a wedding so many times that you stop cringing and just accept it as a common occurance.

    If we lose by 5 goals on Sunday will you be suprised?

    When we lost and got 8 bagged agaisnt us “it was only three points”.

    Will the result make a difference to our chances of winning the league?

    I was born and raised in North London surrounded by Spuds when I went to school, I over stated my point of not giving a fuck but in reality if/when we lose it will not be in any way shape or form a suprise and quite frankly it will hurt a lot less than Gazza banging it in from a free kick.

    Thats how I feel, take it how you want to.

  66. kwik fit

    WTL
    Your hurting man but sunday is a new day .
    Forget what we have seen. Sunday is all about getting in the away end and believing . Never lose hope cos we are the fucking arsenal
    !

  70. kwik fit

    Sunday is going to be Arsenals day do not fear the arsenal will do what has to be done. Motivation is not needed cos this is the big one my friends .

  86. kwik fit

    lE GROVERS I AM starting to strugle i need le grove stalwarts to thake me trough
    Arsenal go into the north london derby viva le wenger!

  87. Goonerboy

    Wenger can sound very authoritative and be very persuasive-yes he talks a good game.
    But this seems to blind people like Stan to Wenger’s weaknesses as a manager of a top English football club. His complete failure to address the poor defending of the team, to adjust his training and preparation in response to the persistent stress injuries to top players, year on year and failure to invest in experience has demonstrated a staggering level of poor judgement. It is clear that Wenger is not being judged on what he and his team does-but on what he says and the way he says it.-and on the money he makes for Board members. Its upper class England for you-the prevailing culture of the Board-run like an old gentleman’s club- by over-privileged toffs most of whom have acquired their position by inheritance. Its very comfortable for Kroenke to sit at the head of those mega cautious upper class twits-he’ll come under no pressure to invest from them.
    Tevez for RVP- is bullshit. Total Manchester newspaper driven drivel. City have a problem because they have brought too many top players-with big egos and stupidly big salaries-and they all can’t play at once. We don’t have a problem with RVP yet-despite Man City’s best attempts to create one.
    I like Tevez as a player- but what makes you think we could ever pay his salary or that he would ever be happy playing for us-or for that matter anyone else in England? One thing is certain he is not in Manchester because of his love of the weather or the people.The best thing for us is that Tevez stays and festers in Manchester.
    Man City have already brought and wasted a huge amount of talent-RVP if he was to leave us could do far better overseas.

  89. kwik fit

    Gonner i agree with the city comments but i do not agree with wenger but i fucking love arsenal so every moment will be euloving our guys and if that means louving the manager then i do it ! Alright perhaps le grove should become akb fuck it!

  99. Dutchman

    I always want us to win against tottenham, but tomorrow i want it only more. We are the underdog, if you have to believe thw whole media and some journalist even said that he would only choose 4 players from our side in the North London starting eleven.
    He said:
    Vermaelen > Dawson
    Wilshere > Sandro
    RvP > Defoe
    Walcott > Lennon

    The rest is shitter then the likes of assou-ekoto, corluka or even friedel…….. Yeah right, what a bullshit. I would say this:

    Chezzer > Friedel (ten times better)
    Sagna > Corluka
    Vermaelen > Dawson
    Kos Sandro
    Wilshere = Modric
    Arteta Adebayor
    Gervinho Lennon

    What the fuck are you guys thinking, we still have a much better squad then Tottenham!

  101. Dutchman

    My computer did something wrong
    Again:

    Chezzer, Friedel Chezzer
    Sagna, Corluka Sagna
    Vermaelen, Dawson Vermaelen
    Kos, gallas gallas
    Santos, Assou-ekoto draw
    Song, Sandro Song
    Wilshere, Modric draw
    Arteta, VdV VdV
    RvP, Adebayor RvP
    Gervinho, Bale Bale
    Walcott, Lennon Walcott

    The point is that we have ten injuries already. And when we miss Koscielny, we will have to play Song in defence and wenger will play Frimpong, who will fuck it up with Ramsey. Jesus we miss Wilshere!

  109. kwik fit

    its is always to overall to feel lucky cos when you are a french bastard with little or know cock(le coq)
    ride like fuckin fuck!
    And the girls fucking louve me(rosy rednapp)
    ugly bitch!

  114. OPG

    61% – Manuel Almunia saved just 61% of shots faced last season, lower than Rob Green’s 70% & the PL average 69%. Stopgap.

  116. iffy

    How could you even suggest that Arsenal sell RVP…i think this your hatred for Wenger has deluded you. What kind of message do you think that will send eh? and knowing this current board, where do you think that money will go? On four squillaci’s perhaps….

  117. Moray

    Arsenal feel squeeze as wages rise to £125m while profits stagnate
    By Jack Pitt-Brooke (from the Indie online)

    Arsenal’s wage bill increased last season to £124.4m, according to the club’s latest financial results which were announced yesterday.

    The figures included a £42.6m drop in pre-tax football profit, with the football business delivering a turnover increase of just 1 per cent.

    In the year ending 31 May 2011, Arsenal spent £124.4m on wages, a 12.4 per cent increase from the £110.7m figure recorded the previous year, making them the fourth highest-paying club in the Premier League. The financial blogger Andy Green, known as “andersred”, pointed out this was only £29m less than Manchester United’s 2009-10 wage bill of £153m, and, as United paid £10m in bonuses last season, this points to a £19m basic difference. Arsenal’s wage bill was 55.2 per cent of their football turnover, up from 49.7 per cent.

    That proportion was likely to increase, given the slow growth in Arsenal’s football turnover to £225.4m, up by just 1.1 per cent. With players’ wages on the increase, the operating profit (before depreciation, player trading and exceptional items) of the football segment decreased by £11m to £45.8m.

    Once transfers were factored in, Arsenal’s football profit before tax was down to £2.2m. They recorded a £14.7m loss from player trading, having made a £13.6m profit last year. These latest figures did not include the money from the summer sales of Gaël Clichy, Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas.

    The property segment of Arsenal returned a larger pre-tax profit than the football segment: £12.6m. The overall net debt was down to £97.8m with the group’s cash and bank balance up to £160.2m. Manager Arsène Wenger was asked yesterday whether having that much money but not spending it was a failure. “The whole world is bankrupt and the one who is not is accused of not being bankrupt,” he responded. “I can’t understand it.”

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