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Thread: Kroenke's Bid for Total Control - Trojan Horse or Long Term Security?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    It's not ignorant at all, you posted the article and there's not a lot of success there, one superbowl from what I can tell, that's not particularly good. At Arsenal just 3 FA Cup again not particularly good.

    It's not rocket science, what amazes me is you don't see the last 12 years as a good enough representation of the man, he's the guy that kept Wenger in charge for so long after all, so he always had to accept part of the blame for our failure.
    You couldn't even take the time to read the article properly so attempting to explain the American sport system, what division, conference titles mean, making the playoffs, salary caps and draft system is a bit pointless.

    You'll find something to be miserable about eitherway. Knock yourself out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Power n Glory View Post
    You couldn't even take the time to read the article properly so attempting to explain the American sport system, what division, conference titles mean, making the playoffs, salary caps and draft system is a bit pointless.

    You'll find something to be miserable about eitherway. Knock yourself out.
    I can't no and I can't say I care much about American sport either but even if you look at his clubs, the MLS club won one title since 2004 (pretty poor), his ice hockey team won one Stanley cup in countless years (again a poor return), nothing with his basketball team (again in 18 odd years) and his American football team one Superbowl in 23 years.

    That's not exactly great.

    What I do know and what's relevant which what he's done since being at Arsenal (the same sport and the same club) and that makes for sorry reading, you can sugar coat it with nonsense articles about American sports which aren't really that relevant if you like but it doesn't change that.

    Fact is he owns the club 100%, can borrow against it if he wishes and can pay dividends and management fees as he pleases, that cannot be seen as a good thing, especially when he has zero interest in the sport of football.
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    Again, if you knew a little about American sports, you'd know that it's rare to see a small pocket of teams dominate the league year after year like we have seen with Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and now City. It only tends to happen if you have a very special player on your hands or team like a Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron or Curry.

    Have a look at the last time the Eagles won the Superbowl. Or the last time Chicago Bulls won a title since Jordan retired? Outside of the Lakers and Boston, you won't find teams that have won a shit load of titles in the NBA. Even major franchises like LA and Boston have decades where they haven't won a title.

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    The American sports system is designed to spread around the success. The least performing team in the league gets the 1st round picks of fresh talent. Like said above you need a 1 in a generation player to dominate and even then (Lebron James) its sometimes not enough.

    If Kroenke lets us spend what we earn and isnt slow to dump a non performer like Wenger. we can be as okay as you can expect. My fear is that everyone is upping their game, Even teams like Everton, Hammers, Fulham are getting aspirational, speculating with large budgets to make the next grade. We Arsenal have fallen to the 2nd tier already, courtesy of U Know Who. Our next 3 seasons are very critical if we are not to fall into the 3rd tier. Really wish Gazidis was staying as he already knows the lay of the land. If we have to hire his replacement we will have to poach someone from another PL team.
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    Make 2mrw better than 2day

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    With Sven and Raul on board along with Emery, I think there is enough there to push for success. I hope Gazidis also stays. He's helped to restructure the club and it would be a shame to lose him now.

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    Could do with NQ back, he, as far as i know, knows quite a bit about the world of business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    I don't really understand all that American stuff to be honest, but from what I can see there's not a lot of success and certainly nothing sustained.

    Problem is this guy isn't interested in football, he's a businessman and with that in mind he could easily borrow against Arsenal to buy another franchise, he wouldn't think twice about it either. If he liked football like Abrahmovic it might be different.
    Put like this, the same thing we as Arsenal fans complain about are the same exact things The Rams, Nuggets and Aves fans complain about


    Last season the Rams were good, and look to be good again this season. Cause they were so bad for so long that they were able to stockpile great young talent through the draft(the worst teams gets the pick of the best amateur talent).

    But when those players contracts are up, there's a good chance he won't spend money to keep em.

    And he also kept a Coach for just about a decade who's average win loss record was 7-9 or 8-8 per season

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    Quote Originally Posted by Power n Glory View Post
    With Sven and Raul on board along with Emery, I think there is enough there to push for success. I hope Gazidis also stays. He's helped to restructure the club and it would be a shame to lose him now.
    His son might be different. But Stan simply doesn't give a fukk .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Globalgunner View Post
    The American sports system is designed to spread around the success. The least performing team in the league gets the 1st round picks of fresh talent. Like said above you need a 1 in a generation player to dominate and even then (Lebron James) its sometimes not enough.

    If Kroenke lets us spend what we earn and isnt slow to dump a non performer like Wenger. we can be as okay as you can expect. My fear is that everyone is upping their game, Even teams like Everton, Hammers, Fulham are getting aspirational, speculating with large budgets to make the next grade. We Arsenal have fallen to the 2nd tier already, courtesy of U Know Who. Our next 3 seasons are very critical if we are not to fall into the 3rd tier. Really wish Gazidis was staying as he already knows the lay of the land. If we have to hire his replacement we will have to poach someone from another PL team.
    Agree on the US comparison not being completely valid - they fix how players are shared between the clubs and that is obviously very different from over here.

    I can't say I'm happy about having one owner of the whole club, especially someone who is not Arsenal and/or football through and through.

    However, if Kroenke is going to get a return on his investment (which is presumably why he is doing it) then he needs to make sure that the Arsenal is reasonably successful. If we go right down the table then the revenue is going to fall away and so is the value of his investment. So hopefully he will feel obliged to make sure we put in a serious challenge for some silverware on a regular basis to avoid losing money. Not the greatest reason for trying to make us successful, but if we do still complete realistically, I won't mind so much.

    Time will tell. Not overly concerned about the first couple of games - if we win them, great, if not, it is not an immediate worry as it is a new manager with two tough games to begin on. If we are looking bad towards December, then we can worry.

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    As someone said American sport is very different but even there his cubs haven't really been a great success since he's owned them. As for him having to keep us competitive, that's true but realistically getting top 4 sometimes and winning the odd FA or Carling cup will do that as has been proven by Wengers' tenure, he doesn't need us to win the league or CL or indeed compete regularly.

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