As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
franksav63 wrote:Hooray, the white knight of FFP is coming to save us...
You don't buy into it all then Frank?
What on earth gave you that idea.... I can't think of any reasons to be cheerful with the club at this precise moment of time with the exception that the tide seems to be turning against Wenger and the board and that can't be a bad thing.
highburyJD wrote:In 2007 we had a similar commercial income to ManUre.
I stopped reading at this point
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
franksav63 wrote:Hooray, the white knight of FFP is coming to save us...
The thing that bugs me about FFP is we seem to be banking (sic) everything on it;
A) working effectively
B) being installed proficiently and honestly
C) pimped clubs like Citeh and the chavs finding no way around it
Does anyone really believe in their heart of hearts that ANYTHING that FIFA, UEFA and the FA have their mitts on, will do any of those 3 things?
Really?
They can't in their hearts of heart, clubs will get around it easily and UEFA will do fuck all about it as they wouldn't want the top clubs to breakaway, it'll be dead in the water within a couple of years, our club just use it as a means for an excuse.
franksav63 wrote:Hooray, the white knight of FFP is coming to save us...
The thing that bugs me about FFP is we seem to be banking (sic) everything on it;
A) working effectively
B) being installed proficiently and honestly
C) pimped clubs like Citeh and the chavs finding no way around it
Does anyone really believe in their heart of hearts that ANYTHING that FIFA, UEFA and the FA have their mitts on, will do any of those 3 things?
Really?
They can't in their hearts of heart, clubs will get around it easily and UEFA will do fuck all about it as they wouldn't want the top clubs to breakaway, it'll be dead in the water within a couple of years, our club just use it as a means for an excuse.
franksav63 wrote:Hooray, the white knight of FFP is coming to save us...
The thing that bugs me about FFP is we seem to be banking (sic) everything on it;
A) working effectively
B) being installed proficiently and honestly
C) pimped clubs like Citeh and the chavs finding no way around it
Does anyone really believe in their heart of hearts that ANYTHING that FIFA, UEFA and the FA have their mitts on, will do any of those 3 things?
Really?
There's no way they will be able to (Legally) enforce FFP - The rich *word censored* that own chavs/$hitty/manure etc have lawyers and legal teams working on how to rip it to shreds as we speak - that's why they pay them a fecking fortune so they can continue winning Troophies - Anyone who thinks FFP will help bring trophies to Arsenal are living in Laa Laa Land!
UEFA are the most spineless organisation in football. You only have to look at the pathetic actions they hand down for offences like fan violence, repeated instances of widespread racism etc and then look at the fine they levy on an idiotic individual like Bendtner for showing a sponsored waistband. The whole racket stinks and the only time they'll consider 'getting tough' is if it will damage English clubs. The only reason the FFP were touted was because Platini (who in my mind takes the impressive accolade of being the biggest *word censored* in football) was bitter at the success of the English clubs in the CL from 2005 onwards.
Despite what they say UEFA benefit from football becoming ever more commercialised and corporate, as evidenced by their two club competitions being geared up to generate revenue for them by having bloated formats ensuring that the big guns play at least 8 games pretty much every year. They would rather have PSG in the CL filling nearly a 50,000-seater stadium and generating far more commercial and media interest than a smaller club like Montpellier.
Secondly, do they have the will to take on a list of clubs that potentially includes City, Chelsea, Malaga, PSG and even smaller clubs like QPR (although they have greater worries right now) who may be looking to progress into European competition on the back of individual ownership in the future? Not a chance, the owners of those clubs have unlimited resources that they'd throw into a legal battle that would span years and cast the whole of European football under a huge cloud of uncertainty as well as costing UEFA tens of millions of pounds in legal fees.
