Well hot dang, we’ve not spoken about net spend for a while.
This MNF beauty is doing the rounds on the twitternet (I hate it when people invent twee terms for stuff), and it’s pretty interesting because it shows you that Stan K isn’t as conservative with the pennies as you might think.
Over 4 years, Arsenal has a net spend that sticks us 3rd in the Premier League. Pretty appalling that we occupy the Europa League on that money, but we took care of the issues there in summer. What this table tells you is three things.
- Arsenal turned into a hoarding club under Arsene Wenger. After years of having to sell players to keep things afloat, he went full on grandma on the other side of the family and hoarded players like she hoards newspapers and nik-naks from the local school fete.
- Chelsea really make their cash work hard for themselves. They buy high and sell even higher. They hire in the best coaches, fire them when it doesn’t work. They win things. If Chelsea can win the league on that cash, so can Arsenal.
- Spending money doesn’t necessarily equate to success. Manchester City has been dominant for the last 18 months, but United have been utterly shite. The reality is this season, the 5th highest net spenders are duking it out with the highest net spender. Again, we have to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and get smarter.
I didn’t want to put a 4th one in because it’s Spurs related, but it really does show you what an outrageous coach Pochettino is. He would be an absolute weapon at United, which is where I fear he’ll end up when Jose gets his P45 at some point this season. He makes players better, he motivates them to stay when there are greener fields and he spends fuck all. He’d have been a lovely manager to bring in when the money started rolling at Arsenal. It is what it is…
Rob Draper had some interesting quotes from VV and Sanllehi in The Daily Mail.
‘We want to make our fans proud of their football club,’
‘We do that in two ways: by winning and by winning in what we call ‘our way’.
‘We want to win the biggest trophies in the game and if you compete in the Premier League, there are only two: that’s the Premier League and the Champions League. And we want to win them in a way that respects 130 years of history and heritage (at) this amazing football club.
‘The short-term ambition is to get back in the Champions League. That is a step on the journey but not the ultimate ambition, which is 100 per cent shared by Stan and Josh.” (VV)
I mean… we’ve heard all this before, but it doesn’t just feel different this time, it looks different. We’re not hoping for progress based someone changing, we have a manager who has overseen title wins this decade. We also have a team on and off the field that is delivering really positive early signs. Also, and this is just me rose tinting… the LA Rams are doing really well, hopefully, that push for real success on the west coast of America will filter through to London. Trickle down winnertivity I believe they call it.
I also liked this comment from Raul.
‘We’re in a great streak of victories, hopefully, it will last longer. The longer the better. But we know there are going to be ups and downs this season. Performance has probably not been at the level of the results. Which is great. It is better to be a lucky winner than an unlucky loser.’
A bit of fucking honesty for once. We still have sections of our fanbase that can’t properly differentiate between winning and winning well, but at least we have people that can see that the performances haven’t been up to par. The reason I like that comment is it means there’s no mystical set of KPIs that are working out of view… success is the what matters. Putting on a show is important. Moving the club forward is the goal.
If it goes down the shitter, we’ll find a new manager. Anyway, take a read here. The bit about buying in a mega player left me a touch damp.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments. x
Bankz is here for the Tr4phy again
Let’s do this!!
BOOOOM
4th
Tr4phy!!!
Nice one Peter…..outsmarted me.
Its mine today Bankz.
Lol
#BlameArsene
Damn!
Bug isn’t still fixed
Made me miss ze trp4hy
Lucky Peter Peds
In reality we are yet to fully undo the effects of Wenger’s reign. Sead was brought by Wenger and he is not a good defender, we have Ozil on a mega wage, Debuchy and Gabriel were sold leaving us Mustafi and quite a number of problems.
Stop sticking up for the Yank… has he got a photo of you with the nextdoors dog ? The guy has killed our clun FFS.. took it into private ownership and been bleeding it dry for ten years… he needs to go!!!!!
Pedro sort it out mate! Comments still annoying and time of posts still wrong.. thought once the clock changed it would finally be correct again but alas not!
Good one Pedro. When do we play blackpool.
Many on le grove never rated Guardiola and there are still probably some who find it hard to give him the credit he deserves. What I like about him (besides the quality of his football) is that he backs himself when buying young players..I know he spends good money on them but his judgement is normally spot on .. Talking about Sane, Jesus ,and John stones.We missed the boat with pep about 4/5 years ago … if Arsenal as a club had shown some ambition they would have gone in for pep ,offered him fortunes and given him a blank… Read more »
Someone give AlexanderHenry a paper bag to breath into…………
^^ haha
Where we are now is as good as it gets I’m afraid…it’s Europa cup,fa cup and league cup for the foreseeable future until we get an owner with ambition. City are way ahead of us ….. We have had posters on here celebrating all the great work kronke has done bringing in new back room staff and manager …… obviously they can’t be serious..5 years too late ..should have got pep .. If Pedro thinks that by having a net spend of 45 million in the last 2 seasons is competing with the elite then he is having a laugh… Read more »
Of course hindsight is perfect, but it looks like we sold the wrong players when we sold Gabriel and Debuchy. Oh well, we weren’t to know at the time, when it happened I was just pleased that we were getting rid of our deadwood. Mustafi has been inconsistent at best, Lichtsteiner is at the very end of his career so physically he’s spent and so can only be used very sparingly.. Why not dip into our U23s for the cup game? Julio Pleguezuelo is 21/22 now. I know that he’s not been playing because of injuries but he’s at the… Read more »
Trickle down theory sounds good on paper but in practice it doesn’t work. You have 40 years of economic data to show this.
Leeds
It seems to me that Emery is being realistic ..I get the feeling that he knows we can’t realistically compete with the city’s of this world ( the undefeated run is just a bonus) so he is targeting the cup competitions..hence the reason for taking such a strong squad to Lisbon.
If he was focused on just the league he would have played the youth players and left the first team at home …
Here is the net spend 7 years prior to 2014 .
City ..536….
Ma utd..267
Chelsea..292
!iverpool..174
Arsenal…79
“he would have played the youth players and left the first team at home …”
Reminds me of someone… lol
Pierre
You really are a piece of work. The reason we didn’t hire Guardiola is not that the owner lacks ambition, it’s that the owner respected the previous manager too much and allowed him nearly complete say regarding when his tenure would end. In the end, thank God, circumstances prevailed and we got rid of the man. But when Guardiola was available, Wenger very much wanted to continue as Arsenal manager and Kroenke allowed him to. And he did this out of respect for Wenger, not a lack of ambition.
Morning grovers Quick question, what happened to the cash reserves during the last managers tenure ? A net spend of 40m is laughable to me so can anyone help expatiate on that, we clearly have issues at the centre of the defence, left back, on the flanks and and upgrade on granit Xhaka, and we are at least 200m behind EPL and UCLtitle challenge level . On other news doing the rounds Barcelona have told Ousmane Dembele to search for a new club, I would’ve thought we would be sniffing around. This is the type of signing that can kick… Read more »
Bamford
“Wenger very much wanted to continue as Arsenal manager and Kroenke allowed him to. And he did this out of respect for Wenger, not a lack of ambition.”
So what you are saying is that kronke is a weak owner …the best manager in the world was unemployed ,Arsenal hadn’t won a trophy for 9 years and kronke allowed wenger to stay because he wanted didn’t want to leave ….says it all really ..thanks
Pierre going for #1 troll status. Yes, Pierre, it will be difficult to compete with City given their total spend and ours, but it isn’t impossible. Also, re your pre-2014 figures above, Wenger could have spent £100m more than he did, and if he had done so, and if he had spent and managed better, he might have improved both our results and our financials. He didn’t. But this is water under the bridge. As Sanllehi has said, we will need to be efficient in everything we do: how we scout, how we spend, how we develop players, how we… Read more »
The Twitter account @Religion_Arsenal is asking people to vote on who they think our best player has been thus far this year, giving Torreira, Ozil, Aubameyang and Lacazette as possible choices. With 19 total votes so far, Torreira has 65%, Aubameyang 25%, Ozil 10%, and Lacazette 0%.
What do people here think? I voted for Torreira.
Bamford
If you think we will compete with city on the pitch then you are living in a dream world I’m afraid.
City had debruyne,sane,company,jesus on the bench last night …
Unless we get a substantial windfall then you can forget about the league and champions league.
Banford
Still waiting for you to explain your claim that you don’t “go around telling people what to do”, despite telling numerous posters to go post on other blogs and the like.
I mean it’s almost like you’re a consummate liar, but you vehemently deny that too.
Real head scratcher…
The Spuds were fuming with the persistent tactical fouls from City. A dose of their own medicine. What a start to the season Bernardo Silva is having. Might be the best player in the PL at the moment.
The old “net spend” filler. Net is as much about our ability to sell players on at a good price as it is about how much you spend in the first place. It only partly explains the level of ambition. Given that we rarely do achieve anything substantial our net position will be worse that it could be. Hopefully with the new team that will change but with Welbz and Ramsey potentially leaving for nothing it won’t improve in the short term.
don’t know what it is about Poch but I just don’t rate him. Maybe when he goes to Utd, we’ll find out. But I don’t see him making utd this force to be reckoned with, like they were under fergie and how city are, right now, under Pep.
I don’t see pep winning the CL this season. His team show real fear when facing tough oppositions in Europe. I don’t see them getting past Juve. That is a clash I want to see
“Pierre going for #1 troll status. ”
The battle rages on between him and a few others who are also posting on Untold.
Raul: “It is better to be a lucky winner than an unlucky loser.”.
Yes, it surely is better to win and be lucky, than to lose and be unlucky.
Duh.
Do you really find this sort of Emirates Trolleresque platitude to be honest or insightful?
Champagne And your dumb campaign continues. If you’re accusing me of occasionally suggesting that certain posters might fit in better at an Untold, well, then you’re accusing me of doing something that scores of Le Grove posters have been doing for years. “Fuck off to Untold” is something that has been said here by many, many posters, and for a very long time. So if that’s your point, that really isn’t much of a point. However, I’d like to note that I’m actually nicer than many here are when it comes to such moments. I usually will say something like:… Read more »
Pedro Never took you for one to get suckered into drawing conclusions based on superficial numbers. Net spend gives an impression of things but it simply doesn’t tell the whole story. When you say compete, what are you referring to? Top 4? The title? Look at our spend figures, a good £300 mil behind 4 other clubs. Look at our number of 20+ mil signings, a good 7-10 fewer than 4 clubs. Look at our monies received, lowest of the bunch. All these are damning indictments of our aggression and nous in player recruitment. Also, this view since 2014 takes… Read more »
Bamford
Champagne Charlie
I believe I write on behalf of many posters here when I request that you stop these never ending squabbles
It’s just boring now.
Hello grovers… Just hope there is a real sense of ambition around the Emirates…. For me to be ambitious as a gooner is to be realistic enough to realize that we have to make some sensible buys in the market and groom those around very well so they could come good for the club…. We could do this by bringing in a quality and reliable LB and winger between winter and summer TW… bring back nelson…. Send NKETIAH on loan to develop as a striker, and bring in two quality midfielders, and one of those midfielders must be to replace… Read more »
Dissenter
I agree.
Banford You came out the shadows last night and accused me of telling someone else what to do. When questioned by phd that you of all people had the nerve to even go there you hit him with a retort saying you never tell people what to do. I’m simply pointing out your flagrant lying, you’ve done so a number of times and dozens will corroborate that observation. You’re now doing what I said you do when interacting with me. Namely emerging where you feel there’s a chance to take a dig (addressing Le Grove as a sole entity no… Read more »
Dissenter
Maybe skip wearing the cape for the day. Banford hasn’t engaged with me for a number of weeks and last night he came out the woodwork to have a pop.
So these never ending squabbles you’re going on about haven’t been prominent at all and for some time.
Clutching at straws, Pedro? I know where you are coming from. Having targeted Wenger as the villain of the piece for umpteen years, and with him gone at last, it’s painful to see that Stan has been sheltering behind him for all those years. And whereas Wenger made himself an easy target, how do you deal with a multi-billionaire owner who hides away on his Montana ranch, and who has ended all sources of financial info on the Club, registered now in Delaware? Well, you clutch at straws. You interpret the LA Rams as helpful, on the basis that ‘winning’… Read more »
Fully agree with with Pierre regarding not hiring Pep.
Sometimes the false values of “ our way “ entail consciously hurting oneself. That is nothing but masochism.
Pierre, and sorry for seemingly calling you out all the time, nothing personal haha, just sometimes you really make me wonder where your head is actually at. “It seems to me that Emery is being realistic ..I get the feeling that he knows we can’t realistically compete with the city’s of this world ( the undefeated run is just a bonus) so he is targeting the cup competitions..hence the reason for taking such a strong squad to Lisbon.” Weren’t you saying Emery taking the first 11 to Lisbon was a mistake, because we drew an away game in the league?… Read more »
When taken into consideration, every aspect that makes a club great and moving forward, arsenal are the worst in the top 6….. 1) we don’t buy well… You know who is responsible… 2) we don’t sell well, which is the most annoying part of the lot, that really gets me angry… You also know. Who is responsible for that… 3) we have the worst fan base in the top 6… You know why and who is responsible.. 4) we were so easily battered on the pitch… You also know why.. 5) we had the worst management… You know why and… Read more »
Opposition of the same level
England
One, you still have never provided any support for your claim that Wenger once wanted to spend £30m on a GK and CB but that Kroenke denied him these funds despite our having £150m in cash in the bank. Care to admit that you have no support for this claim and that it is/was bogus?
Two, aside from your own posts here or elsewhere, what “pointers” indicate that Kroenke is about to load $500m in debt onto Arsenal’s balance sheet? Please cite your evidence for this.
I don’t know if the claim that we have about £40m to spend is true or not. If it is true, I find that astonishing considering we used to boast about the size of our reserves annually as if it was some type of trophy. £150m, £200m… Where has the money gone? We will never find out anything now because KSE owns all the shares and frankly he doesn’t have to. He is answerable to only himself. If it is true, we need to suck it up and get on with it. No use crying over split milk. As I… Read more »
Looking at other clubs in the top 6…. Then you know that arsenal are the worst team on and off the field of play by a long stretch…. That’s why I’m always angry with all the fucking AKB’S who stood by wenger till the sack….. Looking at the other club… They all have great players, to the extent they can attract great players to there club or maybe sell there players for mind boggling amount… 1) LIVERPOOL….. Salah +mane= £250m minimum 2) Tottenham…. Kane + Erikson= £250m, they always sell to the highest bidder 3) man utd…. De gea +… Read more »
Highbury legend 1:26:52
“Pierre going for #1 troll status. ”The battle rages on between him and a few others who are also posting on Untold.
Says the king of trolls, the mother of all trolls lol
Can’t see us signing Dembele from Barca unless we get back into the Champs League. He’ll cost a fortune, and we’ll need the CL funds in order to make it happen.
I think we should be keeping a close eye on Jadon Sancho. Probably won’t cost as much as Dembele and seems like he has bags of talent if his early Dortmund performances are anything to go by.
I suspect we’ll go for value signings regardless of where we finish in the table. I have more confidence in acquiring decent talent for reasonable fees with the club’s new structure.
Leedgooner….. Right on spot.. Wenger single handedly ran this club to the ground… He personally oversaw every aspect of the club, from who cleaned the toilet seats to the outgoing staffs and players alike… If he had bought Suarez at the time followed by sanchez…. Then hell yes, we would have won two EPL by now, and sold Suarez to the highest bider with enough cash to reinvest on another quality prospect… But wenger, been so short-sighted, couldn’t see beyond what was in the front of his glasses… Maybe I still linger in the past, which I have the right… Read more »
Rabiot not reboot
I suppose that’s what happens when you have an owner with no ambition . Pierre, No Too bad the owner put his trust in a con artist loser like wenger and trusted the word of the CEO he hired to run the club Thank fuck both wenger and gaZidis are gone It’s too bad the greed and arrogance and stubbornness of a wanker like wenger caused us to miss out on managers like pep. Can’t believe there were posters on here calling him fraudiola. Haha. You know who you are And the net spend would have been a lot more… Read more »
Don’t be too hard on Pierre. He’s a young man who only started supporting Arsenal during the Invincibles. Kroenke is the low-hanging fruit on which all our regression is blamed.
EnglandsBest, I just showed with evidence that Stan isn’t doing a terrible job. He’s spending a lot of money and he’s brought in a lot of decent people.
He’s not going to suddenly drop £500m of debt on our bottom line,
Jamie
We are a lot better off left
with Kronke than we were with wenger and gazidis here
Kronke did have ambiton. His ambition was misplaced in believing a loser like wenger.
That’s the mistake gazidis has made
Jamie
We are a lot better off left
with Kronke than we were with wenger and gazidis here
Kronke did have ambiton. His ambition was misplaced in believing a loser like wenger.
That’s the mistake kronke has made
Pete –
I said it the other day and I’ll say it again; add a PayPal donate button so we can all contribute towards the cost of getting the comments details bug fixed!
Joe –
Agreed.
“I just showed with evidence that Stan isn’t doing a terrible job. ”
It’s just that sometimes he’s not focused on the right things to do lol
“add a PayPal donate button ”
Are you Stan in disguise ??
HighburyLegend –
Nope, just a guy who doesn’t think handing over £10-£20 to get the bug fixed is a big deal.
I’ve benefited from Pete’s free content for years. Happy to contribute towards the maintenance.
Others would be too, no?
I love how Pedro thinks Poch is amazing due to his low net spend. When Wenger had low net spend, was making the top 4 but winning nothing, Pedro wanted him out. Brilliant how net spend is now the metric to judge managers on.
Mind
What was our salary outlay compared to spurs.
What did our team cost compared to spurs
Wenger spent a lot more money than spurs do
Go back to untold
Mind
What is top 4?
Did it excite you as an
Arsenal fan to “achieve” top 4
Other than keeping wenger in a job and padding his bank account what did top 4 do for Arsenal?
By the way, top 4 was bare minimum in what Wenger should have achieved a season. Not a miracle like some of you make it out to be
The facts are that over the last ten years of so ,the net spend are per season Arsenal 30 .million City …100 million United….70 million Chelsea…50 million Liverpool…35 million. The fact that Chelsea also spent 500 million prior to these figure shows how far behind we are in investing in the team . We are where we deserve to be and city are where they deserve to be because their owner showed ambition by going out and recruiting the best manager in the world and investing in the team ,whilst Arsenal’s owner ,as Bamford said,decided to stick with Wenger because… Read more »
Joe,
None of your points matter. I’m just asking for consistency. If you weren’t happy with Wenger competing on a low budget, but not winning anything, for a decade, why praise Poch for doing it?
Still on the topic, and people wondered why the new guys withdrew Ramsey’s contract. Dele Alli is getting 90k per week in this new deal until 2024.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-dele-alli-signs-new-13505077
Pierre
Wenger spent unwisely.
Wenger way over paid average players ( wasted money)
Wenger didn’t soend what was available to him( self preservation)
The net spend for us is artificially low because wenger never spent what he could have.
Because he knew no matter what he spent he wasn’t good enough. He’d rather have kept his job and getting rich than what was best for the arsenal.
And you took it all in gulp by gulp
According to young Pierre’s flawed logic, Leicester ‘didn’t deserve’ to win the league because several clubs outspent them that season, highlighting the Leicester owner’s lack of ambition.
Maybe they should hand back the trophy, or agree to pay £100m to keep it.
Mind
Because we are The Arsenal. A massive club
Spuds are well, spuds. A small club from down the road who are over achieving
Wenger low Budget wasn’t that low. Our salary expense was massive. Mis spent And didn’t spend what he had.
Huge difference.
Wenger’s gone yes, but Kroenke’s at fault for setting a low bar and accepting the balance sheet profit trophies each year, in lieu of real sporting trophies.
Jamie
Or Atletico’s leagues wins. Dortmund. Monaco’s.
They all didn’t happen in Pierre’s mind because they didn’t spend as much as the other clubs.
Why do even play the matches. Just give the league to the team that spends most money.
Right pierre
Oh by the way Pierre, how is real
Madrid doing with that massively expensively assembled squad?
Right, well let’s stop this talk about net spend and what a great manager Poch is.
Poch has won nothing. Wenger didn’t win the league for over a decade and that’s why we wanted him out. If you based it purely on managers net spend, Wenger would be one of the best of all time.
https://www.ft.com/content/f340caae-47cd-11e1-b646-00144feabdc0
I don’t care if we spend £1bn and win the league. I want us to win the league. As Pierre said, we are where we should expect to be because we don’t spend compared to our rivals.
“Wenger spent unwisely. ”
The famous panic buy on the last day of august. Sweet memories.
You can’t say that
It’s bevause wenger chose not to spend. And when he did he spent so badly.
Xhaka and Mustafi for 70m?
Highbury
Don’t forget the trolley dash after 8-2
:-)))
Or the “medical panic buy” of January… lolZ
Ooopsss sorry, Kallstrom was on loan!! lol
Arsenal’s problem in recent years is not our NET SPEND, but the manner in which we allow contracts to be run down and our inability to get full value on sales. This is in part due to the highly inflated wages that many of our players receive. It is a problem which Sanllehi has identified and explains why the club will in future not allow contracts to run down. We have discussed many times our transfer requirements and the need to replace at least one centre back as well as a left back. If Ramsey leaves then we need a… Read more »
ospina 65000 fee 10m
Jenkinson 40000 free
Mustafi 90000 35m
Lichtensteiner 50000 free
Chambers 65000 15m
Kolasinac 120000 15m
Ramsey 110000 20m
Elneny 65000 15m
Mhkitaryan 145000 20m
Welbeck 100000 15m
Wages free 845000 a week fees recouped 145m
Jose gimenez 150k 80m
Ben chilwell 70k 35m
Adrian rabiot 170k free
Anthony martial 150k free
Ousmane Dembele 180k 85m
Wages spent 620000 fees 200m
It’s doable !
It’s doable !
Maybe in championship manager 2002. Couldn’t even do that on the new games!
I don’t trust Kroenke.
Sorry Pedro, but I don’t buy into the scenrario that because of his toys – LA Rams – is apparently having a decent season, Arsenal fans can now relax.
What happened in the past with “net spend” is part of a different era. We live in a new era where a secretive, greedy billionaire Yank with no obvious interest in football owns OUR club and he can do whatever he wants without any accountability.
If anything, those figures reinforce just how poorly AW recruited this last half decade.
We’ve had basically no assets worth selling as he hasn’t found a young diamond in the rough since Nasri a decade ago, nobody has ever come in with a serious offer for Ozil and Sanchez was allowed to run his contract down although the latter two were established marquee signings.
Some decent fees also dropped on Mustafi, Xhaka, Ozil, Sanchez, Aubameyang, Lacazette,Torreira, Leno, Sokratis, Chambers, Welbeck.
We should have much more quality in the squad for what we’ve spent.
Pedro
You’re citing net spend as evidence Stan isn’t doing bad for us. Could you comment on what the rest of the data says in that table for the whole picture?
Namely what I mentioned earlier:
“Look at our spend figures, a good £300 mil behind 4 other clubs. Look at our number of 20+ mil signings, a good 7-10 fewer than 4 clubs. Look at our monies received, lowest of the bunch. All these are damning indictments of our aggression and nous in player recruitment.”
Xhampagne charlie
Shows how much nous you possess when you praised the signing of a cabbage player like Xhaka as exciting……joke poster
Champagne charlie is still reeling his sweetheart Wenger’s career ended in ignominy..
You could argue the strength,deficiencies,Rights or wrongs of a manager until your face turn pale but the sticking point remains you ain’t doing shit unless you’ve got a truly ambitious owner,a owner who will rather win at all cost, a owner who is ready to sacrifice a financial hit in quest of winning,i mean it all boils down to the kind owner running things We’ve got a richer version of Mike Ashely as owner and the rumour of next summers budget being a whopping £40M must jolt the fan base into taking action and seizing our club back from the… Read more »
And Victorious is back, coincidence ?? lol
Highbury
Brought that up the other day. He disappeared whilst we were winning 11 in a row but quickly came back once we dropped points
Of course, he was too busy to post while we were winning but coincidentally became free to post again the same day we dropped points
Hmmmm
Victorious
“Point is You aint got back your club until it’s free from the clutches of the clueless yank.”
That makes no sense
Kroenke is going to outlast you at Arsenal. When he’s done, his children will come and pass it to their children.
The “clueless yank” gave Wenger all the freedom and time in the world.
The “clueless yank” gave Wenger all the freedom and time in the world.
This
And the buffoon mismanaged it to epically laughable levels.
Dissenter
“The “clueless yank” gave Wenger all the freedom and time in the world”
And that’s why he was ,and still is, clueless.
Anyone who refers to Kroenke as the richer version of Mike Ashley really does know jack about Mike’Ashley’s style of management.
We have a player making 300-350k weekly! FFS
We have spent 110 million+ on two strikers in the past year.
We paid out last manager 8.5 million yearly
We have one of the highest wage bills in world football.
Mike Ashley would never have let Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey and Welbeck get to the end of their contracts since he made his money in retail.
“They watch every game. ”
lolZ
If Kroenke Sr + Jr are that much passionate, why did they took so long to get rid of the fossile ?
Pierre
“Dissenter
“The “clueless yank” gave Wenger all the freedom and time in the world”And that’s why he was ,and still is, clueless.”
Nope.
He was just listening to Wenger worshipers like you gyrating to sweet Caroline and screaming “one Arsene Wenger”
His problem was that he deferred to much to the home based management team, in essence he let the club run itself.
Kroenke has his faults but lets not pretend that there weren’t Wenger-lovers like you still championing the “one Arsene Wenger” line.
**deferred too much
That makes no sense Kroenke is going to outlast you at Arsenal. When he’s done, his children will come and pass it to their children. The “clueless yank” gave Wenger all the freedom and time in the world.” Wow thanks for this wonderful insight So what do you know,we have the ‘immovable’ yank running things and gripping the club by the neck with his utter lack of ambition,and since he’d apparently outlast us why not fold the hands back and watch the club you claim to love fade into oblivion. I mean best not throw up a fuss as he… Read more »