What is UP my darlings?
MESUT LOST HIS DEAL
Ok, Mesut’s deal expired and didn’t get renewed.
Ok fine, Mesut is going to blow up his own brand and he’s not signing with anyone.
No controversy here. Though it was interesting how many journos ploughed into Adidas for persecuting the German company for dropping a client over his defence of Uighurs but failed to note that he’d been, you know, hanging out with a major human rights abuser himself.
Both situations are awful, but you can’t be a moral bellwether when fighting for rights of one group, whilst giving legitimacy to abuse with your fame on the other.
In less serious news…
There are some reports saying Arsenal will keep Auba if they can’t get more than £20m for him this summer. Not sure I believe that, but I do think that at a certain point, 30 goals guaranteed might be worth more than a really embarrassing transfer fee.
The only problem you face with someone heading into their 32nd year with under a year on the contract is that at the action end of the season the player starts to protect their body. They don’t give it their all. They stop playing 3 games a week. It’s natural, if they blow out and ankle, that’s a 5 year deal, gone.
Still, quite incredible that leadership at Arsenal said they’d never let players run down their deals again and here we are, 1 year after Aaron Ramsey left us for a free, 2 years after Sanchez forced his way out of Arsenal at a knockdown rate, and we’re sitting here with a £60m striker who could move on for a very small fee.
How does that happen? We seem to have gotten closer to doing a new deal with Emery than we did Auba.
Still, on the business side of things, if we can get a fee for him, and it’s good, we’d be better to sell than anchor ourselves into a mega-deal again. Someone like Odsonne Edouard might be a good replacement, maybe we have 35 goals between Eddie and Gabriel. I’m sure there’s a solve that could work.
Most important thing for Arsenal this summer is coming out of it with a midfield that is built for the league. Power, finesse, size, and fitness. Give me those things, or I shall be furious.
Let’s talk more tomorrow, stay safe my darlings. x
Bob
An awful lot of marches are against things I’m in favour of – mostly Capitalism or similar.
I’d get the shit kicked out of me.
“An awful lot of marches are against things I’m in favour of ”
Or are promoting things I think are stupid or misguided.
Not all of course but a lot of.
Terraloon I suggest that you reread what I wrote about Chelsea. 1. We had doubts that Abromavich will continue indefinitely to pump money into the club. 2. I made the case that if he does not do so then Chelsea are reliant on their self sustaining model. That includes of course monies received from sales of players e.g. Hazard. 3. We made the point that Chelsea is virtually unsaleable because of the billion pound debt not to mention that the club needs to build a new stadium. There are much cheaper clubs which can be bought in EPL which are… Read more »
Emirates
I heard the Spud’s borrowed £175 million on that scheme.
Un
You don’t think we’ll go with Luiz and Mari at CB?
Un
I’d go on a “fat girls aren’t allowed to wear skimpy clothes in public” march.
Please some of us have to eat at some point during the day.
Un
Assuming everyone’s fit I reckon it’ll be Luiz and Mari, I think Mari’s been brought in as a long term partner for Saliba.
If you want to see how fragile Sponsorship Revenue could be take a look at Adidas. At the beginning of April they applied to the German Government for a Euro3 billion loan. I believe that they may have withdrawn that application as matter s in Germany have improved. Many major companies have been forced to pull their dividends and employee bonuses, which I am sure takes priority over sponsoring football clubs. If you want to see what is going on in business take a look at some of the biggest sponsors like Volkswagen and BMW. These companies are selling virtually… Read more »
Would prefer Luiz and Mari CBs
Attack of pepe saka Auba/Martin/Nketiah the last option balloon boy
Emirates
Doesn’t look good for the Spud’s stadium naming rights does it?
ES “”””We made the point that Chelsea is virtually unsaleable because of the billion pound debt not to mention that the club needs to build a new stadium.”””” Absolute piffle. Tripe. It is the club to own or get your hands on if you are a billionaire or an oligarch. It’s right bang in the center of one of the worlds greatest cities. If Roman decided to sell up. He would find a suitable buyer within a month. As for the new ground. As usual Roman was right. His instinct not to spend fortunes ( like Spurs) increasing Stamford Bridge… Read more »
Un
Well they ain’t getting it here!
Just look at our schedule. There will be 5 matches in 15 days. Hopefully, no one get hurt.
Poor Tierney.
Jamie
Im with you. Crushing defeat across the country- for Republicans.
The one I hope loses his seat, is McConnell.
We need to win the Senate.
McConnell is the puppet master.
Sorry ES, I’m with CG on the Chelsea question. I’m not sure what the point about their debt is, it’s owed to the club owner so would be easy to resolve. Chelsea is worth £2.1BN according to Forbes and owe Roman £1.2BN. He can sell for market value and still clear the best part of £1BN profit. He isn’t going to ask for £2.1BN plus the £1.2BN debt, that would be stupid. Compare with AFC, worth £1.8BN according to Forbes. Which, as a billionaire would you think is better value? It’s not a difficult decision is it? And Kroenke is… Read more »
Joke Friday –
What’s the difference between a G-spot and a golf ball?
A guy will actually search for a golf ball.
Why does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle?
Because his wife died.
What did the banana say to the vibrator?
Why are you shaking? She’s gonna eat me!
Why does Santa Claus have such a big sack?
He only comes once a year.
What does the sign on an out-of-business brothel say?
Beat it. We’re closed.
andy 1886 I am not going to respond to CG, because frankly he does not have a business brain. He is clueless. If you are going to buy a football business you don’t want to inherit a huge debt. That will not be discounted. Liverpool was also in debt but it was bought relatively cheaply and Newcastle if sold to the Saudis it is going to cost only £300 million. Whoever buys Chelsea as a “FOOTBALL” club is not going to spend £2 billion on the project and then an additional Billion developing a football stadium. The point made previously… Read more »
For reference it cost Kroenke £550 million to buy out the 39% stake of Usmanov
and that includes a 60,000 seater stadium.
If you want to see a prime case of institutionalized racism look no farther than British football management Gerrard, lampard, shearer, southgate etc all walked into good starting roles. Artetas first management role is arsenal ffs Meanwhile sol Campbell had to go to the very foot of the football fucking league to get a chance. So much respect to him for seeing that and still having enough good will and positivity to take that role and actually do a great job Anyone whose ever seen an interview with work from his playing days knows the guy is a thinker, not… Read more »
Who remembers the Spanish manager years back calling Henry a monkey and getting fuck all punishment because…. I’ve no fucking idea why not
It was Luis Aragonés, and he called Henry a ‘black shit’.
Deplorable. Only marginally worse than John Terry calling Anton Ferdinand a ‘black bastard’.
Ah Jamie you have a better memory than I do
What fucking cunts
Couldn’t agree more, China. Fucking savages.
Jamie
Wasn’t he talking to Reyes at the time?
China
Only this season we had the first time event of a stadium announcer “requesting” 3 times fans at a PL match stop making racist chants against an opposition player.
The Police and PL review afterwards – couldn’t identify any fans doing it and no punishment to the club involved.
.
China keep it going man..
Yes the EPL has a racism problem. There is a glass ceiling for non whites… coaches, refs, etc
ES Look at like this RA has effectively put in £1.2 billion into the Chelsea . As I explained the other day that includes the money he spent on buying the shares from Bates. His investment is still on a holding clubs book by way of a loan but selling the shares would clear this and result in a profit. We know Kronke has just spent £567 million buying 30% of Arsenal. I can’t be bothered to do the calculations but would imagine it’s at least £633 million , probably even more. So he has invested in shares where RA… Read more »
‘Just look at our schedule. There will be 5 matches in 15 days. Hopefully, no one get hurt.’
I have been following the bundesliga post covid-19, looks so much like women soccer.
I’m sure the prem, on resumption, will be slow and without much passion for the rest of the season. The empty stadiums will make it feel like training sessions to the footballers and they will respond to that feeling.
I also learnt some of the dudes came back with beer belly…can you imagine!
Terraloon
Emirates might be referring to the plans Chelsea had to build a new stadium before Abramovich lost his visa.
“I also learnt some of the dudes came back with beer belly”
I’ll clean my boots then!
Timo werner is the new Michy Batshuayi
Im telling you for free!
Terraloon Interestingly I have just done an exercise of looking at how much it has cost to buy major football clubs in UK and Europe. Kroenke is by far and away the biggest investor in buying shares in a football club anywhere in Europe. As you quite correctly point out he spent £633 million buying out Usmanov and the other remaining shareholders including AST. At the time he owned about 60% of equity having bought out the shares of other Directors at club including Fiszman and Nina Bracewell Smith. So he must have spent almost £1 billion on buying the… Read more »
Emirates
That could explain why Joe Lewis has been unable to sell the Spud’s – he’s been desperate to for years but of course wanted top dollar.
For an investor, there is a few difference in spending £300 millions for a club and then spend £700 millions to increase its value and buying a club worth £1 billion. The difference is: Do they view that £1 billion as an investment or as boy’s toy? Did they need a loan to purchase part of the asset or that spending? In Chelsea, it is clear that RA does not view Chelsea as a long term investment. That does not mean that he wants to lose that billion, but that the objective is not lose rather than to make money.… Read more »
Marc, I’m pretty sure a new stadium is off the agenda. It wouldn’t make economic sense when gate receipts are less and less important, and anyway Chelsea’s revenues are already some $80 million ahead of ours.
Joe Lewis’s plan has always been to increase the value of Spurs organically so he could sell it at a massive profit.
The two issues he has is that it took them a long time before finding a manager who could deliver on the pitch within the financial constraint and now COVID-19 is killing their revenue stream at exactly the time they have taken a loan to expand.
I see them badly struggling for the next 5 years, before slowly raising again. They will not reap the full benefit of their stadium until at least 7 years.
Emirates / Terraloon
I’m going to let you explain to Valentin the difference between buying a club for £300 million and then spending £700 million to increase it’s value and just playing a billion.
He’ll just say I’m being racist!
Andy, Chelsea revenue are ahead of us because 1) they have had better result in the pitch But that could change 2) their sponsor deals are not as dishonest that ManCity, but still RA heavily use GazProm connection. In view of the situation in Russia, that well may soon dry out 3) their business model relies heavily on getting loan fee and reselling loanees at a profit. However FIFA and UEFA have just put a limit on the number of players a club can have on their books, seriously curtailing that avenue of revenue. I do expect RA to still… Read more »
andy
Chelsea had a plan to redevelop Stamford Bridge and pulled it after Abramovich lost his visa.
As for gate receipts not being important – I think the current panic over football finance is showing how short sighted football was in forgetting the fans who attend matches and their worth to the club – it goes a lot further than just money.
andy1886 Let’s see how club revenues evolve in the next few seasons. I think that most clubs will struggle in future to raise sponsorship at the levels we have seen in past and that will include Chelsea and Man Utd. The main point that I made previously is that Kroenke has made a major investment in buying the club and he is unlikely to walk away from it particularly if you take on board what Marc has raised about Spurs. Everyone is agreed that Kroenke was not the ideal owner, but I do think that sooner or later he will… Read more »
Marc,
You have alwqys had problem with comprehension.
But even you show be able to spot that the biggest issue for a billionaire when developing an asset is not spending the money, but the leverage and cost of carry.
Valentin
“3) their business model relies heavily on getting loan fee and reselling loanees at a profit. However FIFA and UEFA have just put a limit on the number of players a club can have on their books, seriously curtailing that avenue of revenue.”
Agree – Chelsea have been incredibly clever in the way they have “used” the loan system to generate income.
Emirates
ManU’s Chevrolet deal expires next year – even though it’ll be 7 years old it still dwarfs any other deal in the PL.
I can’t see them getting close to matching it unless we see a crazily quick rebound in economies.
Marc
Chelsea have been a well managed club, but I still think that the financing arrangements and the way that they buy players will become more difficult to
maintain.
Real Madrid and Barcelona can no longer depend on Central and Local Government and the Spanish Banks to bail them out every time that they
get in a mess.
Both Bayern Munich and Juventus are also heavily dependent on the motor
industry. How long will that continue?
un na naii
He took out a short term bridging loan. One assumes that has now been repaid.
As far as I am aware he has not imposed additional debt on the club.
What’s happening at Chelsea? Now they are talking with Leicester for chiwell and they have Ajax’s Tialafigo as a backup target. Are they rolling in money? What are they going to pay for chiwell? Anyone have any Idea?
Emirates, Marc is right. The Chevrolet deal was so loaded in their favour that the guy who signed it got sacked. Like I have said before, the last few years of bad sport results by ManUtd have come to roost. Until now no matter what happen on the pitch, ManUtd was still making money. That’s not the case any more. For the first time under the Glazers, ManUtd have made an operational and real loss. Unless they quickly sort the sport side, I see trouble ahead for them. The salary of Sanchez, Pogba, De Gea are not sustainable if they… Read more »
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Eat shit Unai
You mis answered my post on purpose the little piece of shit you are. Deluded dipshit
Run on now… watch some alt right stuff. Do something else besides being you.
ET arsenal have been run very poorly since the day Stan walked in. That was over a decade ago. If we start to become a well run club now it will have been a lucky coincidence rather than active effort on behalf of the owners.
You don’t behave negligent for a decade then wake up one day switched on and taking it seriously. If Stan cared about running us properly he’d have been pushing through interventions in how we operated several years ago proactively
Sorry to tell you he doesn’t give a fuck mate
Un he gave multiple examples of a glass ceiling that were clearly not players
But don’t let that get in the way of your defense of institutionalized racism
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