Arsenal Finances

[Yousif Arsenal]

The revenue increase is really big in space of year. Also how big the difference the income in CL from 35M to 85M.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I'm a bit mixed reading that. The clubs in good shape and the spending will continue, but boy oh boy the past 5 years has been a massive missed opportunity to really do something.

It's story of the club always opportunity missed when we want to take further steps they stop.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

I'm a bit mixed reading that. The clubs in good shape and the spending will continue, but boy oh boy the past 5 years has been a massive missed opportunity to really do something.

In my opinion only last season has been missed opportunity.
Season 2022/23 was big surprise for everybody, therefore not missed opportunity.

 

[Macho]

In my opinion only last season has been missed opportunity.
Season 2022/23 was big surprise for everybody, therefore not missed opportunity.

You're right, but that 80 mil on Jesus and Zinchenko looks a bit funky in 2025 no?

I'm curious to see how Berta influences us going forward.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

You're right, but that 80 mil on Jesus and Zinchenko looks a bit funky in 2025 no?

I'm curious to see how Berta influences us going forward.

I completely understand why they bought Jesus and Zinchenko in 2022.
These 2, together with Saliba, made Arsenal title contenders that season.
Jesus was excellent before his injury in Qatar in December 2022.
Zinchenko was also very good, until the last 9-10 matches but the the whole squad collapsed then, not only Zinchenko.
Remember who was our main GK that season, the guy who will be relegated third time this season.

I have already said, G. Jesus was good buy short term, nobody knew that he would have that injury and that he would never recover properly from that.
It is easy to say now, we should have bought Isak instead of Jesus that summer.
We can only speculate how we would play that season (2022/23) with Isak.
Jesus had immediate impact.
Isak was out 4 months that season due to injury in Newcastle.

 

[Iwobeast]

Wages have a much higher correlation with success / league position than transfer spend.

It's actually shocking to read how far ahead City's wages are while we're supposed to compete with them, really puts things into perspective

 

[Jasard]

It's actually shocking to read how far ahead City's wages are while we're supposed to compete with them, really puts things into perspective

Ours are about to jump up a lot

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

Zinchenko and Jesus have kind of fallen into the same boat as they were in at Man City.

They definitely helped raise us up to top 4 /title challengers but they're not starters for title winners.

Happened at Man City, is happening here now. We've outgrown their usefulness.

Don't think it makes them bad signings. But they were stepping stone signings.

 

[Jasard]

You're right, but that 80 mil on Jesus and Zinchenko looks a bit funky in 2025 no?

I'm curious to see how Berta influences us going forward.

Havertz is the stand out crazy money signing. And I think when you are spending the money we did on Rice you need to be winning things or coming extreme close like last season. Other than that you have to look at the LB and GK expenditure but in all it's not awful considering we replaced the entire squad since the FA Cup win.

There's actually some great value in this list offset by some really questionable signings (or at in terms of choosing to do them over the attack). What it does show is some very big weaknesses in spotting talent for specific roles when you look at Havertz, Merino, Vieira, Lokonga for example.

 

[Macho]

Havertz is the stand out crazy money signing. And I think when you are spending the money we did on Rice you need to be winning things or coming extreme close like last season. Other than that you have to look at the LB and GK expenditure but in all it's not awful considering we replaced the entire squad since the FA Cup win.

There's actually some great value in this list offset by some really questionable signings (or at in terms of choosing to do them over the attack). What it does show is some very big weaknesses in spotting talent for specific roles when you look at Havertz, Merino, Vieira, Lokonga for example.

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[Sapient Hawk]

I'm a bit mixed reading that. The clubs in good shape and the spending will continue, but boy oh boy the past 5 years has been a massive missed opportunity to really do something.

If you appoint someone who knows how to serve Betty Crocker cake slices out of a dish to construct a Croquembouche tower, you deserve every bit of misery that's coming to you

 

[outlawz]

Naaaaaah, that's just Arteta cope. Had he done this not spending as much that would be paraded too, wage tables came into the game alongside Arteta.

All I can say is goodluck and enjoy really LOL

Nah, you're wrong. Wage spend got traction along with net spend back during the drought years to explain Wenger's league finishes. It was right to use then, and it's right to use now.

https://www.arsenalinsider.com/opinion/is-Arsène-wenger-overachieving/

You have to look at net spend, squad cost and wage spend in aggregate to get the full picture.

 

[DJ_Markstar]

You're right, but that 80 mil on Jesus and Zinchenko looks a bit funky in 2025 no?

I'm curious to see how Berta influences us going forward.

They were massive ceiling and floor raisers at the time though, can't be denied. We transitioned from Dumpster FC to a team that could possibly win things.