Another contract crisis is looming for their teenage forward Reiss Nelson, who is attracting interest from Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.
Nelson, 18, is out of contract next year and there has been very little progress made to negotiate a new deal.It is understood cutbacks have even been made at the training ground canteen this season, with a number of players privately moaning about the lack of choice on offer.Off the pitch, the club are doubling their commercial efforts to ensure Arsenal remain on a firm financial footing.
It is understood negotiating a new shirt manufacturer deal is towards the top of the agenda, with their existing Puma deal due to expire at the end of next season.The average 74 quid is just to get into the ground. Add to that London prices for travelling, eating, drinking, taking a shit and breathing. If you're outside London factor in the piss taking prices charged by our "more efficient" private (foreign) rail services, "congestion" (bung) taxes, the fucked up price of petrol (more tax), the crappy replacement bus services that run on weekends because the trains never do. Dare to go into the club shop to sample the eye watering prices.In the meantime, the club continue to replenish their coffers the best way they know how: selling players.
Taking your son to a home game means biting into the better part of 300 quid, each time.
To see what? Henry, Bergkamp and Pires playing the best football ever witnessed on these shores?
Hardly.
And they say you aren't a real fan if you don't go to games - even if you spent decades going when it was affordable. But the truth is, apart from the diehard away bunch, the real fans have been priced out and the boring zero atmosphere stadium that replaced the real thing is filled with day trippers who have more money than sense.
Wenger out? For sure. Remember, he has always been in favour of ripping off the fans. He's always defended it. And at the same time he's always defended his refusal to spend that money on the team. Guilty as hell.
And take the rest of the greedy cunts with you.