Wenger Slaughterhouse

[Syn]

RE: FFP, fair enough he's entitled to his opinion but IMO he's only in favour of FFP because this regulation will protect the bigger, established clubs' position at the top table of European football, making it much harder for smaller clubs to break the oligopoly. FFP restricts the amount of income a club can raise through investment from a single individual (i.e. sugar daddies) and without that avenue open to them, it is almost impossible for someone like Villa becoming bigger than they are. Here's David Conn at the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/davi...michel-platini



And I quoted a couple of academic articles in a thread a few weeks back that made the same point. I wish Wenger was more honest about why he likes FFP rather than pretend it's because he cares about the welfare of football and football fans. FFP will in fact inhibit competition and hurt the fans' wallets.

Just quickly about his - Joker, you don't know what you're talking about so do be quiet.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Just quickly about his - Joker, you don't know what you're talking about so do be quiet.

This place would be dead if we stopped talking about things we did not know about and stuff.

[The Wengerbabies]

This place would be dead if we stopped talking about things we did not know about and stuff.

This place is dead tbf

GW

[Xhaka Can’t]

This place is dead tbf

GW

That was kind of the point.

[LDG]

We got a bronze last year

[Letters]

We got a bronze last year

[Ollie the Optimist]

if we get cazorla and sahin, added to podolski and giroud, then it shows that the myth that wenger is only happy with fourth place and doesnt want to win exactly what it is. complete and utter bullshit

[Joker]

Just quickly about his - Joker, you don't know what you're talking about so do be quiet.

In what way don't I know what I'm talking about? I'm quoting people in the know like David Conn, and people like Stefan Szymanski who are well known sports finance experts.

http://www.playthegame.org/fileadmin..._Szymanski.pdf
http://www.hwwi.org/fileadmin/hwwi/P...Fs/1210201.pdf

From the second link:

Regarding long-term effects, a tighter regulation might turn out to be dynamically inefficient as it unintentionally protects well-established clubs from being challenged by non-established clubs. Therefore, Financial Fair Play could ultimately and counter-intuitively confirm an unbalanced competition rather than making it more even. As has been shown, a redistribution of income is additionally needed to restore competitive balance.

The only people who claim that FFP will promote competition are people with a vested interest in the status quo, like Wenger, Gazidis and Liverpool's owner.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Asked whether Chelsea’s Champions League win would change anything in England, Wenger said: “I don’t see what it could change.

“Maybe it will wake up the appetite of Abramovich again. I’m proud when any Premier League club wins the Champions League.

“It shows how competitive the Premier League is because Chelsea finished fifth in the Premier League and that is the real quality of a team.

“More than the Champions League it is about where you finish in the league.

“That just shows how good the Premier League is.”

Wenger is looking to stage talks this week with both Robin Van Persie and Theo Walcott over their futures.

They finished sixth actually- and anyone who thinks the "real quality of a team" is determined soley by that needs to have his head examined. In fact only a WUM or someone stricken with severe Arsenalitis would waste time arguing that they aren't at least the 3rd best team in this country right now.

[Ollie the Optimist]

They finished sixth actually- and anyone who thinks the "real quality of a team" is determined soley by that needs to have his head examined. In fact only a WUM or someone stricken with severe Arsenalitis would waste time arguing that they aren't at least the 3rd best team in this country right now.

given that a league posistion is based on a 38 game season with games every week so you need consistency to do well, rather then a knockout game where one moment can win you the game, shows it is the right way to judge a team.

anyone can win one game, you need to do more to do well in the league. where you finish in the league is a better guide to how your team is then a cup competition