Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, is whipping up a PR frenzy in the media. He wants to buy Arsenal and he’s going in with Bergkamp, Thierry, and Vieira. The fee they are talking about is £1.8b. That’s where the story ends for me. Some reasons it won’t work. KSE Philosophy
Posts By: Pedro
Career defining week for Arteta, who will he go to battle with?
I’m feeling a little bit numb. The football results have been miserable. Spurs play a cup final later today. The Super League stuff feels like a massive hangover right now. Our entire week now rests on us beating a manager I beasted for 2 years. The football gods have been brutal this season, will their… Read more »
Arteta gives ownership the result they deserve. Is it Europa or bust now?
Arteta is getting harder and harder to defend. Another loss. Some mitigating circumstances. A huge self-inflicted wound. The end. Let’s talk about VAR, because it feels like it interferes with us quite regularly. 15 seconds after we won a penalty, the refs in the sky were called upon to pick apart whether Pepe was offside… Read more »
JOSH KROENKE TALKS A RESPONSIBLE GAME, TIME TO PROVE IT WITH ACTION
I thought it was brave of Arsenal exec leadership to jump on Teams with the fans yesterday. Josh and Vinai fucked up. They have apologised to everyone and they took a whole load of questions on the chin. The challenge with interview questions is that to be good at them, you can’t be emotional. Arsenal… Read more »
CHAPTER 2: A SOFTER FORM OF BRUTE FORCE (LONG READ)
Now the madness of the Super League has died down, maybe we can have a conversation about where we’re heading. The Super League proposition was an odd one. It wasn’t good versus evil. It was bad vs evil. It was a film where every character is flawed, and you picked the lesser villain to root… Read more »
THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCES FOR SUPER LEAGUE FARCE (LONG READ)
The collapse of the Super League on day two marks one of the most spectacular fails in business history. Owners and their exec leaders spent the pandemic scheming ways to make the most of a bad situation. As I wrote yesterday, they thought they had every base covered. They believed ‘big club energy’ would make the… Read more »
WHAT CLUBS ARE SAYING PRIVATELY (GRIM) + WHAT CAN BE DONE (LONG READ)
The biggest heist in football history is underway and the more you look at it, the more you speak to people in the game, the more you realise the reason there’s no PR counter-point is the clubs don’t need one. It’s happening. You’ll have to suck it up. There are very few options available to… Read more »