Arsenal have no money for transfers

The best thing I did was not renewing my season ticket last season. This season it is ensuring I don't buy any Arsenal merchandise - if fans voted with their feet and their wallet, I am pretty certain those jokers will pack up and go!

 

Remember when everybody was worried about Usmanov ? Looking back over the last 10 years it seems that it would have been better to have let Usmanov and Dein take control of he club.

Kronke, Gazidis et al promised that we'd be competing with the best clubs in Europe for trophies and the best players. Here we are a decade later still selling our best players and facing some unknown team from Belarus.

We've paid for the stadium, but other than that this project has been an abject disaster. We're now seeing Liverpool and Spurs overtaking us when we should be streets ahead of those ****ers.

Kronke is a ****. He's worth something like $8bn and we don't have any money for transfers

 

Would they though ? Gate reciepts now account for a small proportion of a club's revenue. Most of the money comes from TV and commercial deals. I fear that even if the whole stadium protested against them, the ****s would just carry on and pretend everything is fine.

 

No money? They are chatting absolute crap, something isn't right in Arsenal and there is some dodgy goings on here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38655480

Deloitte Money League Table 2015-16 season - the top 10
Teams (positions last season) Revenue in €m (£m in brackets) 2015-16 Revenue 2014-15

 

We are being lied to. No money ffs ! What the **** do they take us for ? We pay the highest season ticket prices in the world, in the world ! And yet Spurs have outspent us this window and they are building a new ****ing stadium.

This is a complete ****ing shambles from top to bottom. Wenger has to take a lot of responsibility for the failings on the playing side, but the buck stops with the board on this.

Kronke needs to go. If he can't invest what's needed into this club, then sell it to somebody who will.

 

Sorry for butting in , but I agree 100% with this . The money that the fans withhold by not getting season tickets , don't buy merchandise etc , will have %0 effect on the owners plans . The football world has gone stark raving mad .

 

Sad but true. It no longer represents the original values that football fans held dear, instead it's become Frankenstein's monster.

 

Same in F1 ( my first love in sport ) .

 

I agree the fans are somewhat irrelevant and their power has waned. However, in any industry (apart from a monopoly) where as a customer you feel disenfranchised, you stop patronising that business. Yes, you support your team, however you don't keep giving them your hard earned cash - the decision is even more easy if what you say is true i.e. stakeholders that are low down the food chain!

 

I do wish people would stop getting excited about unsubstantiated newspaper reports.

I'm as unhappy as everyone else about the ****ty results, but surely we have enough to worry about with the stuff that is real, without worrying about the stuff that is just speculation.

 

No matter how successful and big a club is, if it's badly run, it will eventually lose ground against their opposition, lose supporters and lose money.

 

I am not bothered or getting excited about today's newspaper report. The rot in our beloved football club did not start today. How many top sides in Europe will allow their marquee players to get to within 12mths of their contracts? We have a dinosaur as manager, a board out of touch with the fans, players refusing to commit their future to the club etc. I think it is an insult to people on here to suggest people are getting excited about unsubstantiated reports - the issue runs far deep. By close of play today we could have lost our best player last season and 2 established players from the first team.

 

Players get within 12 months of the end of their contracts all the time. We just signed a player whose contract expired.

 

come on, be serious, very rarely do TOP players get within 12 months of the end of their contracts.

and no Kolasinac was not a TOP player, and neither were Shalke a TOP team.

the last real one I can think of was Lewandowski

 

So how many "Top players" do we sign. We can only sign players that have some doubt about their ability. They then become top players when they play for us.

Other clubs have the same problem, Costa, Ronaldo, Suarez, Modric, Bale, Mbappe the list is endless.

City, PSG, Barcelona, Real Madrid, United and Chelsea, just sign less players that are not top players already, and on top contracts, and they can afford to have a lot more players on top contracts.

 

Arsene Wenger…

- 2016: Calls Paul Pogba's transfer fee 'completely crazy'
- 2017: Bids £92M for Lemar

 

OK, so if the gate fees and the fans are irrelevant as some of you say, the more reason why no one should spend any more money on the club. Leave it soulless and see if the commercial business doesn't suffer. Why would Sky or BT want to televise a game in a dead stadium.

VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET!!

 

The broadcasters are Sky 4 indoctrinated.
So while you are thereabouts, your games will be shown
regardless of the attendance.

Anyway, your club declares attendance as number of seats
SOLD for each game, not the number of bums on seats.

Becoming a laughing stock (which doing this would be
with mass spectator no-shows) does not affect the club
balance sheet like mass no-buys of STs etc will.

 

It will affect them in the long run. Who would want to do business with a club with low support. The optics of it will eventually hurt them. And say it doesn't like you say, what is the point of throwing your money away since it is irrelevant.

 

Therein lies the dilemma.
How long is the long run ?? One season ?? Two ?? Three.

Supporters would have to tread the fine line between hitting
those in charge of the balance sheet, and not "cutting your
nose off to spite your face" (by making on-pitch performance
even worse than it currently is by affecting transfer/wage funds etc) .

Hard to understand what Kroenke wants from AFC.

He apparently is not leeching dividends from the club, so not
a cash cow. Is he prepared to sell for a certain value (that
nobody has offered yet) ??