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gunnercelt35

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The standing section might not be too far away and is a possibility.

Celtic have been given permission to introduce a safe standing area from next season onwards and if it is a success there is no reason standing shouldn't be re-introduced across Britain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33061483

Not personally a fan of standing at football but there is no doubt a packed standing area produces a much better atmosphere so having a designated area is a good idea.
 
ArsenesNO1Fan

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Well, the initial question was: “To your knowledge, which clubs’ academies in England focus on player development and are progressive?” The answer is Arsenal.
But I’ll take your point, even though the crux of it goes beyond the academy or the players or, indeed, manager Arsène Wenger.
The fact is that Arsenal have two multibillionaire shareholders who own the majority of the club through a holding company, Arsenal Holdings plc.
That plc has relatively few shares compared with other companies and, because of that, the shares are traded infrequently, which means that the club is currently in something of a stalemate in terms of its outright ownership.
The two biggest shareholders in Arsenal Holdings are the American Stan Kroenke, who holds 66.64 per cent of the parent company, and the Russian-Uzbek Alisher Usmanov, who owns 29.11 per cent.
That means that under the official takeover panel rules, Kroenke must in due course make an offer for every available share in the club.
While that remains the case, Arsenal FC has no real outright owner.
In this situation at any sizeable company where one shareholder wants to own the business outright, he will “stock cash”.
He’ll do this by keeping the money in the company and then use it to buy out the remaining shareholders, with the backing of a financial institution that will lend against that money.
This is similar to how the Glazer family funded the Manchester United takeover. Essentially, the financial institution lends against the value of the club.You can’t actually use the company’s own money but you can borrow against it.
In this case, the club, Arsenal, is also cash rich, which means the lending rate will come down considerably as the club will have the cash to pay the interest back from day one and it can negotiate a better rate as the financial institutions will see the club as a safe bet.
United were – maybe still are – paying out £20 million in annual interest alone on the money that the Glazers borrowed.
So Kroenke is stocking cash and Usmanov is more than happy to let him do it. It could even be that Usmanov does a reverse deal and buys out Kroenke.
Arsenal fans might want to hope that isn’t the case because, with Kroenke’s nearly 67 per cent of the shares, it’s going to take Usmanov twice as long to stock the cash he needs to buy out the American.
At Arsenal, it is a clear example of the majority shareholder stockpiling cash to pull off a full takeover of the remaining shares.
The cash in the bank has nothing to do with Wenger’s inability or reluctance to spend.
It is all because the people in the boardroom are using the healthy balance as leverage in the City.
When that cash pile hits a certain number and market conditions are right, Kroenke or maybe Usmanov will make their move.
Now it becomes a little easier to see why Wenger has had to trust the academy players to subsidise the first team for so long.
 
Gooner Zig

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In the NFL, the stadiums are built using taxpayer funds are they not? It really is a disgusting business model when the income gap in the US just keeps growing and growing.
 
Gooner Zig

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Sickening stuff really. The taxpayers of the US are blinded by their love of sports to see that they are getting their pants pulled and sphincters reamed, financially speaking.
 
bingobob

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Looking at these figures we spent 114m on new players increased our wage bill and still made.a pre tax profit. Good figures.

Balance sheet for the league.
 
Rain Dance

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profit before tax 24 mil GBP = 35 mil USD .... :whistle:

trivia : you can build a brand new tapioca factory (with brand new German made machinery) with less than half of those money.
 
ArsenesNO1Fan

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So we spent 114m on the acquisitions in Jan and Summer 2014, 80.5m of which is being paid off on credit. So we spent 33.5m net and made a 24.7m net profit.

So in order to break even we can spend at most 58.2m per anum including signing on fees and first years salary. Not including costs of repaying prior transfer acquisitions or the increased cost of contracts.
 
bingobob

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ArsenesNO1Fan said:
So we spent 114m on the acquisitions in Jan and Summer 2014, 80.5m of which is being paid off on credit. So we spent 33.5m net and made a 24.7m net profit.

So in order to break even we can spend at most 58.2m per anum including signing on fees and first years salary. Not including costs of repaying prior transfer acquisitions or the increased cost of contracts.
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Which on the back of that would mean just over 45m left over from the summer, say 40m after the closure of the January window. Coming back into the summer that should mean we have 98 m to spend approx not counting for increases in commercial revenue increased CL and PL money but also the decrease in the one off property money.

We will also be freeing up a good chunk of change with the contracts of Flamini Arteta and Rosicky ending.

Very healthy financial situation to be in.
 
ArsenesNO1Fan

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bingobob said:
Which on the back of that would mean just over 45m left over from the summer, say 40m after the closure of the January window. Coming back into the summer that should mean we have 98 m to spend approx not counting for increases in commercial revenue increased CL and PL money but also the decrease in the one off property money.

We will also be freeing up a good chunk of change with the contracts of Flamini Arteta and Rosicky ending.

Very healthy financial situation to be in.
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The 45m would be minus any repayments too ofcourse.

Ofcourse that discounts the possible cash stacking to buy out Usmanov strategy that Kroenke maybe employing. Scroll to the top of the page to post read the article I posted on this.
 
Sweggeh

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Kroenke is a **** with a **** wig. **** him. Wish Wenger would just two foot him. And when he is downed, Gazidis hits him with the flying headbutt. Tag team finisher.
 
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