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The flip side to that is our stadium cost about 400m while theirs cost 1.2b. That cost and the associated interest should be covered by increases in revenue but it will be difficult for them to invest significant amounts into their squad with such a big liability hanging over them.

Hopefully.
Football finance has changed massively since we built the stadium.


They have spent not far off us since it was built.

Let's hope they stay out of Champions League for a few years.

What I will say is they will not have to sell every season & buy youngsters as We/Arsène did.

 

[MartiSaka]

Hopefully.
Football finance has changed massively since we built the stadium.


They have spent not far off us since it was built.

Let's hope they stay out of Champions League for a few years.

What I will say is they will not have to sell every season & buy youngsters as We/Arsène did.

Yeah even though they won't spend quite as much as us on players, they haven't just given up on competing by selling their best players each year. I think Kane was an anomaly caused by him wanting to win, not because of financial reason.

Anyone understand if we really needed to take the approach Wenger did whilst paying off the stadium, was it really a necessity or could we have managed it in less drastic ways?

 

[SA Gunner]

9 clubs earn more revenue than us: every other Big 6 club in England, Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid, and PSG. If you took out the oil clubs, then this chart makes some sense. It's hard to see us eclipse Barcelona, Bayern, and Real Madrid any time soon given their historical pedigree, and United and Liverpool are the two most successful teams in England with huge brand names in Asia.

Tottenham and Chelsea are ripe for overtaking (they both earn more than us even though they are less valuable clubs) and we need 5-10 years of performances comparable to the last two years to move up the rankings to start challenging the top 5 clubs.

But in a sport where money has such a strong correlation to trophies, it is worth remembering these statistics when we're assessing how Arteta is doing.

Good posting .

Yes, I’d say 4 more seasons after next would return our ranking and revenue streams to the levels they were prior to us dropping out of the Champions League.

But further to that, we need to improve our commercial deals as well, we have done better of late with things like the training ground naming rights and so on, but this has to improve more.

We’ve taken the risk upfront on the pitch and that has been good as well. Arteta’s work extracting value from the squad on the pitch has been very good, and another area which can be improved on in that space is converting that increased value to sales.

 

[berric]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1792588650347184205

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1792563490248442174

Looking good.