No. So far the delays are around 16 weeks. There are no plans to occupy the stadium until 2019. Furthermore the delays were not announced until they entered the final phases of their scope. It still has no definitive handover date. It’s amateur at best. Missed deadlines due to limited manpower ffs. Everything points to Levy interfering, he awarded several key contracts to suppliers outside of the supply-chain from the main contractor’s procurement framework. It’s just ridiculous.
We’re in a tough spot though in that we’re not big enough/ financially strong enough to attract the ideal level of player that takes us dramatically forward unless we unearth another Modric/ Bale/ Eriksen/ Dele etc. When you look at most of our side in terms of first XI, the level up from them are already at Europe's elite sides. We can’t go to Bayern and sign Neuer nor can we go to PSG and sign Neymar or City for De Bruyne etc. So how exactly do we break that barrier of being a top four/ six side to being title winners? We definitely should’ve strengthened in the summer but I still don’t think we could’ve/ can match the likes of City/ Chelsea with regards to having that desired quality throughout the whole squad, we just don’t have the muscle to do so yet. Hopefully the new stadium can help us to reach that stage in time. We’ve already started paying competitive salaries, the next step is start trying to sign those elite level players.
Seeing as you are £1 billion in debt, I would hope so. Cheaper to develop commercial revenue than get billions in debt to generate more stadium revenue. How long will it take to pay Nu3PL off?
That's a good summary of where you've got to so far. Levy knows he'll look a right mug if Poch walks. His cheque book will be hammered in January.
The first two after about 20 years in the CL. We will soon catch up if we stay in it and they stay out.
Obviously stadium revenue helps, but commercial rev is king followed by broadcast monies. That's where Arsenal went wrong. You can't rely on stadium revenue
Debt was 366m at the end of July. As I pointed out above the stadium generates a net 50-60m a year even at the increased cost.
Interest and capital repayments. It seems to be 100-150m over budget which costs about 10m per annum.
We're ripe for a multi-billion pound take-over by a mega rich sugar daddy. I don't want it to happen, but if it did, I see us dominating Europe for the foreseeable future.
You called nothing Quents ... we were a club that had yo-yo'd between the top divisions for 50 years ... Now despite your protestations of doom (and welching the first season of our relegation bet) we are likely to be a top ten club for many years to come and relegation fights are most unlikely ... You, on the other hand, will never get over us beating you in the one season you had any realistic title chance ... You need to get over it Quents ... it has begun to define you ...
There have been some good winter transfers though. Probably not the best example, but recent Man of the Match Ross Barkley was a winter transfer, for about £20m. Aubameyang I think was another winter transfer, so there are some decent examples out there. Cue the Barkley and Aubameyang are **** posts from far and wide
Not even the spuds would be that stupid to call Aubameyang **** (well one might). He's got 17 goals in 23 PL games for Arsenal and he hasn't even had a full season with us yet.
Why would Levy not back Poch (who imo had done a great job at Spurs so far) and lose him because of this lack of funding and then replace him and then provide funding to new manager to buy new players. why not just back Poch and buy the new players that he wants, coz if he goes then players will follow who need replacing and they will come with higher wage demands which means existing players will demand more. Arsenal went through the madness of not investing in recruitment and selling players when we had a stadium to pay for. You would have thought Levy would have looked at the lessons learnt and not followed the same path
I'd have no problem with Chelsea signing Eriksen. I don't want it to happen though. Your HIAG obsession strikes again
If you had a cash shortage from building a new stadium you financed it wrong. It should generate cash from day 1.
