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It was always a longer term strategy, we're still making repayments far as I understand so out new financial clout has come about because of new sponsorship deals but soon the debt will be paid off and we will be in a far healthier position, financially, than any other English club. Utd have a mountain of debt, Chelsea and City are entirely dependant on benefactors which is not where you want to be longer term.

Couple of good articles I found about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbymcm...for-arsenal/2/


http://northlondonisred.co.uk/arsena...-inside-track/
Where do you get this long term policy from. There was never a suggestion from Fitzman or Wenger ( during the Emirates announcements ) that we would face " 10 years of non-competing" whilst we paid off the stadium debt. We had just been in a Champions league final & the Emirates was supposed to cement us being one of Europe's top clubs.