afc Surprise Fucking Surprise

[Heero Yuy]

Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood admits the club cannot afford to spend big during the January transfer window. The Gunners were expected to enjoy a New Year splurge as they look to add some experienced faces to their impressive crop of youngsters.However, despite being linked with numerous top names, it would appear that new recruits will be thin on the ground.Arsene Wenger has already seen his side slip out of title contention in the Premier League this term, but will not be handed a financial war chest in an effort to resolve the club's problems.Sensible"I don't think there is a lot of money anywhere," Hill-Wood said in the Daily Star."One has got to look ahead - in the future there is probably not going to be much more money coming in."We have got money, but I am not sure we are going to spend it. We've got to continue to run the business in a sensible way."It may sound boring, but we are not going to rush out and spend fortunes on people who won't help us achieve anything better than where we are at the moment."Arsene has a lot of young, talented players at the club and I think he will probably give a chance to one or two of them."

Source : SSNI know we all knew it was true, but still

[Lenny]

"It may sound boring, but we are not going to rush out and spend fortunes on people who won't help us achieve anything better than where we are at the moment.

swear that dont make sense or is it just me

[Guest LucaPiano]

"One has got to look ahead - in the future there is probably not going to be much more money coming in.

ARSENETHIS IS UR FIRST HINT THAT UR JOBS NOT SAFE.PLEASE READ BETWEEN THE LINES FRENCH BOY

[Risky]

he will still sign young french 15year old players lol^^joke always gets at me

[Captain Planet]

he will still sign young french 15year old players lol^^joke always gets at me

I cant help but lol.

[Capricious Beats]

Where does all your money go?You fill a 60 000 seat stadium every game. Average ticket price £40 isnt it? Thats £2.4M every game + shirt sales + refreshments while the 60 000 are there, even if everybody only spends a fiver thats £300,000So £2.7M is a pretty low estimate of your turnover each game, given exec boxes and the fact people might buy a new shirt plus 8 beers etc.You have played what 30 games so far, so say 15 were at home. Thats £40.5M just so far. Regardless of sponsorship and world wide shirt sales plus TV rights which is a huge amount.So how can you be poor? You must have a dodgy accountant I swear.

[LS]

Smokescreens. Alot of clubs got hit hard recently and can't go out and splash out money and find out the players flops. We are a good example. We are on limited funds when we made 50 mil selling our best players. Like i said. Arshavin is yours if Wenger wants him. Although you may have no money, if Wenger was desperate to spend some cash they would find some way of providing him with money. Although the weird thing is you ain't getting linked with players you need. Wouldn't of thought you needed another creative player (although Cesc is out) you could just buy a good central midfielder who can create chances.

[KING]

who knows he might be goin senile

[gattsu]

smoke screenwenger has money to spend

[Heero Yuy]

Where does all your money go?You fill a 60 000 seat stadium every game. Average ticket price £40 isnt it? Thats £2.4M every game + shirt sales + refreshments while the 60 000 are there, even if everybody only spends a fiver thats £300,000So £2.7M is a pretty low estimate of your turnover each game, given exec boxes and the fact people might buy a new shirt plus 8 beers etc.You have played what 30 games so far, so say 15 were at home. Thats £40.5M just so far. Regardless of sponsorship and world wide shirt sales plus TV rights which is a huge amount.So how can you be poor? You must have a dodgy accountant I swear.

Stadium Repayments/

[HangTheDJ]

the stadium wasn't free, and i'm sure like most clubs the majority of match day revenue goes on players wages.

[Roy Batty]

Most clubs mortgage gate receipts and TV money when agreeing finance on things like stadiums.

[Seth Rollins]

"We have got money, but I am not sure we are going to spend it. We've got to continue to run the business in a sensible way.

And there you have it.BUSINESS. NOT FOOTBALL CLUB, BUSINESS.We ain't signing one single player.

[n/a]

lol we will sign someone have faithbutarsenal are the only top 4 club who r self sufficientpeople forget thatoff the field its a top 3cos man u chelsea liverpool all have extra finances that came from outside

[Lenny]

lol we will sign someone have faithbutarsenal are the only top 4 club who r self sufficient

lol we wont be a top 4 club if we carry on at this rateheard Wenger saying how during the current economic crisis it just isnt sensible to be splashing money, and sutin about the pound being almost equal with the euro

[TF S4DK]

Both are true tho.Wenger better just hope he gets fat while everyone else starves.

[MrJibbles]

lol we will sign someone have faithbutarsenal are the only top 4 club who r self sufficient

lol we wont be a top 4 club if we carry on at this rateheard Wenger saying how during the current economic crisis it just isnt sensible to be splashing money, and sutin about the pound being almost equal with the euro

It's true the Pound is so weak right now. Reason why some foreign players will not move here.Dunno who read this but he said within 15 years the club will be fine while others are totally f*cked over financially.

[TF S4DK]

But Wenger cant predict that, cos its all debatable.For example Arsenal felt that they would be financially competing with United within three years of the Emirates move.Little did they know United would get taken over, or that Chelsea would get a billionaire owner as would 50% of the league's clubs or forsee a recession.

[thinkingthuglife]

whos the prick who laughed when i said djourou better than richards. bet you feel like a prick now innit. faggit

[The Somalian]

arsenal is like aids when it comes to money yeah we got it but we just aint showin it