afc Arsenal Summer Transfer Window

[Heero Yuy]

wdmds[d]ewef

 

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Trust, gas levels right now.

 

 

[Natty]

oh yeah i forgot

 

[The Infamous]

Lucky Suarez is going

One less rival

Costa and Fabregas

Sanchez

Faaaaaaaaaaaaak

Lambert

Pmsllll

[VicGrimes]

[Taurus]

Gas mark 7

[TF S4DK]

 

Monreal takes 18, Gibbs 3.

[gattsu]

Seriously, imagine your shirt number being taking by the new guy

Would seriously question why the club don't rate me

To even ask lmao

[The Infamous]

You man have gallas 10

And you couldn't give him 9/7 ???

Lol

pmsl

gallas 10

smoking crack in the emirates

[TF S4DK]

Seriously, imagine your shirt number being taking by the new guy

Would seriously question why the club don't rate me

To even ask lmao

 

Monreal will be happy to sit next to him, about...

 

 

You man have gallas 10

And you couldn't give him 9/7 ???

Lol

 

Only way Wenger taking them mans numbers is if he sells them. As said he houldn't touch 9 and Rosicky has shutdown various guys for wanting his shirt.

[Badman]

Well played lads 

 

Think this room is a bit more respectable now considering how business has been handled 

 

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Alexis 17 doesn't quite sit right with me....

 

Man looks a beast in the shirt though

[Kuffir]

u man reckon wenger will make arteta captain 

[gattsu]

u man reckon wenger will make arteta captain

Shouldn't even be starting next year

Merts imo

[Kuffir]

 

u man reckon wenger will make arteta captain

Shouldn't even be starting next year

Merts imo

 

 

c/s

 

our midfield next season though man smh

 

SMH

[time_bomb]

things really are changing, wenger out in brazil full of smiles, early signings, big money involved

 

wow

[Lenny]

You man have gallas 10

And you couldn't give him 9/7 ???

Lol

pmsl

gallas 10

smoking crack in the emirates

I read somewhere that Wenger allowed because it removed some of the burden from the number.

Giving an attacking player the 10 shirt after a guy like Bergkamp pressure

[Heero Yuy]

Really expecting big seasons from Ozil and Giroud.

[Lenny]

Wouldn't be surprised if Ozil got on the phone to Wenger to thank him for Sanchez

[The Somalian]

 

The Woolwich Suite at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium almost doubles as a museum of football as well as a lucrative area for corporate hospitality. Quotes from great players of the past, all the way from Alex James and Cliff Bastin to Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira, adorn the walls alongside various club mottos. ‘Victory through harmony’ and ‘Forward’ are among the most visible. Yet it is backwards in time that you really must step to fully understand why Monday's gathering in the Woolwich Suite was such a significant moment.

A full decade has now passed not just since the legendary ‘Invincibles’ team of 2003-4 but also a series of boardroom decisions which might ultimately prove even more significant in Arsenal’s history. At the same time as overseeing an unbeaten Premier League season, Arsene Wenger was instrumental in the final planning for a period more than 10 years into the future when Arsenal would aim to reposition themselves for a generation of success. It was always accepted that the club must wait until 2014 for the full realisation of this strategy and this was brought into sharp focus on Monday by the confirmation of the most lucrative kit deal in British football and a new contract that will take Wenger past 20 years at the club.

Back in 2000, when the club bought an industrial and waste disposal estate in Ashburton Grove, the logic was simple. Arsenal’s Highbury home might have oozed history and character but it simply did not generate the incomes that would sustain the club in the same elite league as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Barcelona.

A new stadium was conceived and, although there would be the immediate benefit of additional matchday revenue upon opening the Emirates in 2006, loans of £260 million had to be paid back. A serious restriction on the club’s commercial income has also been absorbed. This is because Arsenal had accepted a series of unusually long-term deals for their main commercial revenue streams from kit manufacturer Nike and shirt sponsor Emirates. These deals might have seemed enticing in the early 2000s – and were necessary to secure the funding for a stadium that eventually cost £390 million – but have subsequently fallen well behind their main competitors.

It is why 2014 has long been regarded as some sort of Promised Land in the corridors of the Emirates. The old commercial deals will elapse this summer, Arsenal have been free to negotiate a series of new partnerships and their three main revenue streams – matchday, broadcast and commercial - can all now be fully maximised going forward.

In short, this summer was always going to be the moment when the years of relative ration and harvest would finally be rewarded. Back around 2000, when this vision was being formed, the wider landscape in 2014 could only be guessed at. But if you had told Wenger then that Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham would still be nowhere near sorting their own stadium issues, he would have been entitled to suppose that Arsenal and Manchester United’s dominance would be assured.

Manchester City and Chelsea, with close to £1 billion of benefactor investment apiece, have fundamentally altered the picture but Arsenal still now find themselves in an envious position compared to most of their competitors.

On its own, the £150 million five-year Puma deal provides between £22 million and £26 million of extra money each and every year. The new Emirates shirt sponsorship deal does roughly the same. Together with other smaller commercial partnerships, the difference in the club’s commercial income next year compared with last year will be around £70 million. And the important point to remember is that this is not some sort of one-off payment but a yearly change that will be fully available for transfer fees and wages each and every year. It means that, from 2014-15, Arsenal will become one of the select few clubs in Europe to generate more than £300 million a year.

There is considerable internal pride at this achievement and it was not hard to read between the lines when Ivan Gazidis, the chief executive, addressed the media. "I think it is a validation of the things we are doing right,” he said. “Our club has walked an independent path, standing on our own two feet, and thinking long term about that progression.” He went on to specifically add that Arsenal had got to where they are “without state funding or the help of a benefactor” but through the work of people who “love” the club. “When we do achieve success it will be incredibly meaningful to everyone on this journey,” said Gazidis.

There are still some thorns in this emerging garden of roses. In theory, Arsenal should be ideally placed to benefit from Uefa’s new Financial Fair-Play regulations and the ‘break even’ principle that clubs should not spend more than they naturally earn. In practice, Deloitte’s new league table of the biggest earners in football very clearly signalled how Manchester City and Paris St Germain will seek to underpin their vast spending with sponsorship deals that would appear to have a close connection to their respective owners. City have gone from generating £18 million in commercial income in 2008-9 to £166.9 million in 2012-13. This is already well ahead of more historically famous and successful clubs, such as Arsenal and Liverpool, and only marginally behind Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona. PSG have gone even further and now outstrip every club in world football for sponsorship revenue. These deals will be evaluated for ‘fair value’ by Uefa and, during lunch this week with Michel Platini, it can be safely assumed that Gazidis was clearly outlining his “healthy sceptics” view of FFP.

Yet even if that battle is lost, the wider narrative is clear. Arsenal’s patience and long-term planning – qualities not readily associated with modern football - are now beginning to reap their reward. Most significant of all was the confirmation that Wenger will sign a new contract that is likely to run until the end of the 2016-17 season. This was not so certain even five months ago when Arsenal were losing on the opening day of the season to Aston Villa and Wenger was being disrespectfully told by some fans that “you don’t know what you’re doing”.

Having been the principal architect of Arsenal’s vision – and also the human shield for all the frustration over the club’s lack of trophies amid regular top four finishes since 2005 – he has earned the chance to lead the club into this new phase. And what happens next, now that Wenger has the opportunity to regularly supplement the development of young players with expensive proven talent like Mesut Ozil, will decide his final standing in the pantheon of British football’s most influential managers.

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[Badman]

Wouldn't be surprised if Ozil got on the phone to Wenger to thank him for Sanchez

 

Always thought to myself that another big signing would do wonders to Ozil

 

Dont think having the burden of being the 'big summer signing' is productive for such a guy

 

Its obvious my guy doesn't want the spotlight and just wants to get on with his game 

 

Cant wait for this season to start now

[mp*]

Great Signing.

 

Hopefully the fans (and the club) don't forget that our squad in still very much incomplete.

[Lenny]

Wouldn't be surprised if Ozil got on the phone to Wenger to thank him for Sanchez

Always thought to myself that another big signing would do wonders to Ozil

Dont think having the burden of being the 'big summer signing' is productive for such a guy

Its obvious my guy doesn't want the spotlight and just wants to get on with his game

Cant wait for this season to start now

Yup, my thoughts exactly

Also add to that fact he will compliment Ozil's game immensely

[Kuffir]

Really expecting big seasons from Chambo and Wilshere.

[Kuffir]

 

 

Really expecting big seasons from Chambo and Wilshere.

Why ?

Who you loaning them out to?

 

 

wilshere knows he needs to perform in light of a dissapointing past cupl seasons, he been dropping a lot of positive soundbytes and he's an important part of the english core we got atm

 

i expect him to step up

 

any time chambo has a decent run in the team he impresses

 

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welbeck gna do some damage for u boys im sure