Gazidis and Kroenke are too different issues surely, Kroenke is the silent owner who buys these sports franchises purely as a money making venture, he doesn't invest any of his own capital in it and he makes a bit of money in return (the only difference from before is where the money went to the various shareholders it mainly goes to him now). Gazidis is the burke that the board in their infinite wisdom allowed Arsene Wenger to interview for the position, which shows if anything Wenger is getting a bit insecure in his old age so he hired a boss that would be too incompetent to question anything he did.
I personally am not against the idea of self-sufficiency, but i'd like a bit more transparency from the board about how the money the fans spend on the club is getting used......the wage bill is bloated by crap players milking off it...but if you open your eyes and look around it's the same everywhere.
The man thing i want to change is preventing the situation we seem to have got ourselves for the last few years where we are selling players entering the last year of their contracts, and because we balls up the situation so totally by not putting replacements in place in time so if we do have to sell them we can move on (as we have done in the past) or use harder negotiating tactics to tie these people down to deals.
I'd like to know what the business model is for the club in terms of expanding it's marketing abroad and corporate sponsorship to levy the financial pressure on fans from gate receipts and store purchases.
I'd like to know that when a lot of our current sponsorship deals expire in 2014 will new deals be renegotiated to bring in further revenue.
Is the sale of our top players been used to ease the club's debt burden and if so is there any likely end in sight with this.