later diaby will annouce he want to leave because arsenal cant match his ambition 

dont forget walcott...lelong lelong..anyone?

only liver-fool will pay that much for english player. lol
he cant even dribble, nor passing ball well....how he can perform? based on his age, not much room for him to improve. ox is much better than walcott

RvP still using our facilities?

Morning all,

many headlines this morning regarding PHW’s interview in the Standard screaming ‘WE CAN’T COMPETE’, which really doesn’t tell the full story. We can’t compete in some respects, we know that, and that’s what the Chairman said.

“At a certain level, we can’t compete”

And he’s talking about the clubs whose resources are endless. City and Chelsea whose owners bankroll the clubs, can soak up losses, can afford to write off huge amounts of money on players. For example, Man City paid Arsenal £25m for Emmanuel Adebayor, handed him a contract worth close to £10m a year, then when it turned out Adebayor was, you know, a troublesome cunny, they farmed him out on loan here, on loan there, before pretty much letting him go for nothing to some lower league club just to get him off the books.

So, for a total of 48 appearances and 19 goals their ‘investment’ was somewhere in the region of £50m (taking into account some of his wages were paid by the clubs he went on loan to). I remember the hype when Trevor Francis became the first million pound footballer, is Adebayor England’s first million pound per game footballer? So, at that certain level Arsenal can’t compete.

Red Bull
Anyway, FFP also have catch 22 as proven with Man City. All they need to do is to declare a bigger sponsorship deal with Etihad which they are in control anyway. FFP will only push teams like us, Man Utd and Arsenal to the brink. Chelsea also wont suffer from it because all Roman Abramovich needs to do is to open up a company "Roman's Pussies Ltd" and sign up with Chelsea as a $500 million sponsor. There you go. Book balancing .

beside UEFA FFP, we might have FFP in the Premier League too:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...Chris%2BWheeler

good luck to city and chelsea...

very good read about finance in football world
http://www.footballfancast.com/2012/09/foo...e-in-comparison

The system with La Liga is obviously hard to compare considering the clubs in Spain sell their rights individually. Whilst Real Madrid and Barcelona both receive upwards of £150m per season the other ‘top clubs’ receive about a fifth of that, and the lesser clubs make a comparative pittance.

Overall in the Spanish league TV rights are sold for around £510m per season, with over half of that going to Real Madrid and Barcelona. Jose Ignacio Wert, Spain’s sport minister, said however that the Spanish giants would be open to the idea of restructuring the way the television rights are distributed in an attempt to raise the general level of the league.

about EPL

£3b was just part of the valuation given to the Premier League by broadcasters. BSkyB and BT will now pay over £6m each per game they broadcast, and that’s before they international television rights, expected to fetch around £2b, have even been sold.

This new deal will begin from the 2013/14 season and will mean that the top clubs in England are, on average £30m per year better off. In comparison to last season, the bottom placed team would receive an extra £15m per year and the champions would receive almost £40m more than Manchester City did this year.

no matter what you say, he is one among us. 

got but its on astro channel 810...didnt realize we had a 810!

Arsenal VS Southampton 22:00 21:55  810

Astro TV schedule

no its not...

Gazidis: Arsenal has Wenger DNA


Arsenal Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis says that when the time comes to replace Arsene Wenger, the club will ensure the style of play and footballing values he’s instilled will remain, but also suggested that the club will offer the Frenchman a new contract to run beyond his current deal.

Wenger has a contract until 2014 but Gazidis insists that any new deal would be made with the best interests of the club in mind, not for emotional reasons. Speaking to the Telegraph, he said, “It’s not a sense of sentimentalism, not a reward for services, it’s a belief that we have an incredible manager who loves this club and is the best man to lead us forward.

“We’re really confident about the direction that the club is heading. I feel he can keep going for a long time. He’s in fantastic shape and he’s as driven as he’s ever been and excited as ever.

“The values that Arsène has brought to the club together with the values that the club had before Arsène are what will inform us and give us the framework as to who might take over from him in the longer term. He is written into our DNA.”

And while many Arsenal fans were frustrated by the club’s decision not to recruit further before the transfer window closed, Gazidis has lauded the manager’s transfer business.

“We can get into extensive debate about individual decisions – and like all clubs we are not perfect – but the ultimate arbiter of whether you are spending your money efficiently is where did you finish in the Premier League versus your overall spending,” he said.

“When you look at what Arsene has done, within the overall constraints, he has outperformed our spending every single year he has been manager. It is extraordinary.”

He also suggested that the new commercial deals available to the club in 2014, when current sponsorships end, would propel the club to a new financial level.

“In terms of the financial impact, it will be as significant a step forward as the stadium was in 2005, it does kick us into the top five clubs in the world with separation from the rest. The overall journey that the club embarked on was to make it one of the leading clubs in the world and to do it in a way that would be sustainable. “

“We get accused of a lack of ambition or complacency because apparently the board are only interested in the top four. That is absolute rubbish. To me this is the most ambitious football club I know.”

It’s a hard sell when you constantly sell your best players, often because you have no choice, but there’s no doubt the new commercial revenue will have a big impact on our financial health. It’s whether or not we use our resources fully when we have that money that will decide whether or not Arsenal will be in the ‘top 5′ clubs in Europe.

http://news.arseblog.com/2012/09/gazidis-a...medium=facebook

Net Spend per Trophy from 1992-2012: Very interesting, take a look.

Arsenal (10 trophies won inc 3 league titles, £45m net spend): £4.5m spent per trophy

Man United (21 inc 12 league titles, £190m): £9m

Liverpool (9 inc 0 league titles, £235m): £26.1m

Chelsea (15 inc 3 league titles, £579m): £39m

Everton (1, £44m): £44m.

Tottenham (2, £176m): £88m

Man City (2 inc 1 league title, £474m): £237m

Compliments of @Artekkers

Guys,

Just checked with my hometown Astro, it's channel 801, not 810.
@mickeysew814, keep that in view for future gathering