Net Spends table...should i be happy?

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It reflects that we have been astute, rather than adventurous in the last few seasons. It also reflects the reasons for the Gooner's, and RVP's, discontent very well, they've made £20 mill and signed average to crap players like Park and Gervinho.
 
what about Stoke? crazy..i think we have done well...considering how we do in the league aswell....Arsenal fans should wonder where their money is going.
 
what about Stoke? crazy..i think we have done well...considering how we do in the league aswell....Arsenal fans should wonder where their money is going.

Atleast Stoke have something to show for it, Villa only just avoided relegation last year.
 
Wow - Stoke are the third highest net spenders. That's incredible. Shows what a difference the odd big sale makes (and they've not had any). And poor old Chelsea lagging £190m behind Man City on the spending. It's just not fair - no wonder they only got 6th.
 
"never been one for number crunching but does this mean our house is in order?"

Yes.
It means that have not eaten into club revenues to pay transfer costs.

Compared to our PL top 4 rivals, and the top 5 consolidation over the past 7
seasons, that is a good show indeed.

Credit also due to the Goons (although N yrs of CL piggie trough has helped them here -
even with the debt burden of their new stadium) .
 
"never been one for number crunching but does this mean our house is in order?"

Yes.
It means that have not eaten into club revenues to pay transfer costs.

Compared to our PL top 4 rivals, and the top 5 consolidation over the past 7
seasons, that is a good show indeed.

Credit also due to the Goons (although N yrs of CL piggie trough has helped them here -
even with the debt burden of their new stadium) .

Wouldn't give them too much credit, they've sold all their best players and bought pap.
 
exactly they are 20 million up because every season they sell their star asset..that is why i overlooked their sums...and what if they dont get CL footy? with it they are selling anyway.

just heard about some Arab takeover of Spurs apparently on Twitter not that tht means anything..but something seems to be happening at Spurs.
 
"Wouldn't give them too much credit, they've sold all their best players and bought pap"

I give them credit for remaining where they are in spite of the above.
Last season may be showing that this will now no longer be enough to
remain at the CL piggie trough.
 
As we're talking about net spend...

We've swapped Sigurdsson and Vertonghen for Kranjcar and Corluka, and only spend £6.5m.

That really is fantastic for us!
 
Wow, get a squad with minimal spending in the positions we've finished in the past few years. Obviously nothing to do with the manager then.
 
"Wow, get a squad with minimal spending in the positions we've finished in the past few years.
Obviously nothing to do with the manager then."

All the big outlay was prior to Redknapp.
The last 3 yrs has been ruthless Levy purging of that legacy +/- the
players Arry bought in to stop the "2 from 8" rot but had served their
purpose.
 
As others have pointed out this clearly means we have spent ever so slightly more than we have taken in in transfers. We still perform well even after these results are taken into consideration. Our profits from operation before player trading (according to 2011 financial results) was £32.4m.

We took in a lot of cash due to being in the ECL too. The 2011 revenues were £165.3m compared with 2012 which was £119.8m. Financially we are good and still run as a business better than most teams. We will not be in such high debt because we have a decent wage policy.