Reasons to be cheerful

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we've had some very bad recent results,
we've had a bad summer: sold our best player (just like last season),
sold the player who was our 2nd best in the previous season (again, just like last summer)
we've also apparently (I did some research, trawled the stats and couldn't believe it but...) not won anything since 2005

these are depressing things.
Here's a big picture attempt at positivity:
We are at the end of a cycle in several ways:

In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre - they have flown away from us since. We had to frontload all of our deals to build the stadium - made perfect sense at the time, now those deals are expiring.

In 2008 we nearly won the league - then, due to expiring contracts lost Hleb + Flamini (we also lost Greedybarndoor and Kolo a year later but those were great deals). Wenger responded to this with a new, more equitable, wage structure. Rather than losing the players he was building up he got everyone tied down longterm. Instead of jealousy from the lower earners everybody would be on similar wages. Now those deals are expiring - we have stated we are returning to a more tiered wage structure. Our squad next season will be unrecognisable from 10/11, not having so many long serving players is a pity but necessary to change the wage structure (Bendtner, Arshavin, Na$ri, VanStapleCunt, Cesc, Denilson, Eboue, Clichy, Song, Traore, JET, Chamakh, Nordveit, Vela, Lansbury, Eastmond, Flappy, Almunia all in that team photo none will be in the 13/14 version).

FFP is conceptually very popular in the Prem, it now looks likely they will enforce their own rules to combat wage inflation, could be as early as next season. Prem needs 14 out of 20 votes to push that through. It will happen and there will be a competition between Prem and UEFA - they will both want to be seen to make their rules work.

Our youth team cycle: we have the first generation of Hales end graduates coming through: Jack Wilshere is already the best England player of his generation hopefully Gibbs maybe Frimpong and even Afobe can be major squad players for us saving money in the transfer market. LeCoq and Jenks joined later but can also be very useful (Miyaichi/Campbell?). In the generation below I'm already impressed by Gnabry.

This is the reason those 4 cycles make me feel positive about our prospects:
New sponsorship deals should increase our budget by £25M-£30M a season.

Shipping out our stack of (mostly non-playing) £50k-£60pw earners: Denilson, Chamakh, Bendtner, Squillaci, Arshavin is now inevitable as their contracts expire. They will be replaced by cheaper homegrown players (Wenger suggested we'll aim for 60-80% at the AGM).

We are in an excellent position vis a vis FPP: everybody benefits from new TV deals but we have an easy to cut baseline wage bill and more potential for commercial growth than anyone else.

Two things that are generally true:
- Winning things materially increases revenues.
- Dropping out of CL is an enormous revenue hit.
Are exponentially multiplied by the new sponsorship deals - we need to be negotiating from as strong as position as possible, we have brought in a very expensive commercial team to do it.

The next two transfer windows are the only opportunities to influence those negotiations - either through big name stars or simply a stronger squad that makes winning a trophy more likely.

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:popcorn:

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highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

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flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
so...
you don't think how much we spend on the team is important?
or you don't think how much we make, should influence how much we spend...?

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Reasons to be cheerful:

- Jenkinson's showing lately that his massive improvment wasn't just a one off
- The thought of a midfield with Cazorla, Wilshere and Arteta gies me wood.
- Scez will be back soon and Manone can bugger off.
- Once Jack's back I can't see Ramsey getting a game.
- We've got the one man it's not gay to be hypnotised by his body. Lucky us he's also pretty handy as a footballer.

Though reasons to be negative far outweigh all these :(

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The decent people of the world.

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highburyJD wrote:
flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
so...
you don't think how much we spend on the team is important?
or you don't think how much we make, should influence how much we spend...?
I hate financial football talk, most of it is a load of bollocks. We've got the money but we dont spend it and the little we do spend is spent unwisely on shit players and massive contracts for the shit al;ready here, i honestly don't give a fuck where it comes from

Carry on

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DarylAFC wrote:Reasons to be cheerful:

- Jenkinson's showing lately that his massive improvment wasn't just a one off
- The thought of a midfield with Cazorla, Wilshere and Arteta gies me wood.
- Scez will be back soon and Manone can bugger off.
- Once Jack's back I can't see Ramsey getting a game.
- We've got the one man it's not gay to be hypnotised by his body. Lucky us he's also pretty handy as a footballer.

Though reasons to be negative far outweigh all these :(
agreed, cheers Daryl
(although I see point 1 and imagine Ivan and Arsene wondering how much the'd get for Sagna...)

Tets/Jack/Santi is sexy as it comes but I would worry picking those 3 v the very best oppo
linking point 2 with 4, maybe play Arteta, leCoq, Cazorla and play Wilshere on the right,
he was excellent there for the U18s and ressies

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flash gunner wrote:I hate financial football talk, most of it is a load of bollocks. We've got the money but we dont spend it and the little we do spend is spent unwisely on shit players and massive contracts for the shit al;ready here, i honestly don't give a fuck where it comes from

Carry on
my position is we basically didn't have money - we broke even on the basis of player trading
now we do (or will), lets spend it

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highburyJD wrote:
flash gunner wrote:I hate financial football talk, most of it is a load of bollocks. We've got the money but we dont spend it and the little we do spend is spent unwisely on shit players and massive contracts for the shit al;ready here, i honestly don't give a fuck where it comes from

Carry on
my position is we basically didn't have money - we broke even on the basis of player trading
now we do (or will), lets spend it
We'll see :?

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if we don't I'll be joining the mentalist barricades with you lot...

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the ARSENE FAN CLUB'S reasons to be cheerful

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flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:
flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
so...
you don't think how much we spend on the team is important?
or you don't think how much we make, should influence how much we spend...?
I hate financial football talk, most of it is a load of bollocks. We've got the money but we dont spend it and the little we do spend is spent unwisely on shit players and massive contracts for the shit al;ready here, i honestly don't give a fuck where it comes from

Carry on
What are your thoughts on Swiss Ramble appearing in the Gooner?

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flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Funny cos I stopped reading at...... 'Reasons to be cheerful'

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northbank123 wrote:
flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:
flash gunner wrote:
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
so...
you don't think how much we spend on the team is important?
or you don't think how much we make, should influence how much we spend...?
I hate financial football talk, most of it is a load of bollocks. We've got the money but we dont spend it and the little we do spend is spent unwisely on shit players and massive contracts for the shit al;ready here, i honestly don't give a fuck where it comes from

Carry on
What are your thoughts on Swiss Ramble appearing in the Gooner?
Who? What? :roll: :wink:

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