Also, Leicester City entered the top 20 last season. Why? Because success brings rewards. Stagnation doesn't. Leicester won't stay there, but it does show how volatile things can be and how, Arsenal's sustainability model is perhaps the very worst way to try to fund a competitive football team.
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I agree I think the business model isn't great
But the same business model will be there whoever the manager is
Two of the posts I made five minutes ago have just disappeared
Explanation please mods
Loads of posts missing. Ah well, first debate in quite a while, but no evidence to prove it.
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Dunno what happened, just logged in.Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
If you don’t send this signature to ten people, you will become a Spurs fan.
The whole place was offline for a while. Probably a database problem.
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NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
Can you have a debate when there are opposing opinions?
I'm sure I answered this. Looks like they wiped this off yesterday too.
FFP rulings look to be having an effect on Chelsea because they have to sell in order to buy. The only time I expect a team to go large and spend around £150m to £200m is when a new manager comes in and has to rebuild. And that's if the FFP rulings permit it because Conte hasn't gone crazy in the window as expected and neither did Mourinho.
"They" didn't wipe anything
Poked Jof with a stick to see what is going on.
And as i've explained they haven't needed to, and FFP? Get real since when has that proved in anyway effective.
Chelsea spent almost 120 million in transfers fees in the summer, and that has only been lessened by selling Oscar to China for 50m....a player who was hardly playing
The Inflation of transfers from outside into the premier league because of the TV money, means that where spending 80-100m could get you 2-3 world class players, you are having to spend 150-180million.
Now without question Man United and Man City will spend that much if they need to, and although i agree that Abramovich is trying to put Chelsea more on a path to self-sustainability....if he thought they were in danger of being left behind by those two clubs that'd all go out the window.
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