Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Cosmetic concessions perhaps. But how do you see a director of football working at Arsenal? Wenger has already decreed how that's going to pan out. Would you want to be the bloke that's hired for a role Lord Wenger proclaims doesn't exist? Cup win certainly took some heat away, no doubt. But I think we're a long way from the sort of temperatures Kroenke is prepared to endure. St Louis didn't make him sweat and that was pretty vicious. These guys develop sure things on paper and then put plans into action and go to bank. They don't give a fuck who is affected in the process. 2019/20 is the year to watch. I'll predict it now. Wenger will be getting his new contract and the Euro mobsters will have made giant strides to locking in the "elite" teams in their money league. That's why Kroenke won't take a billion and walk and that's why he wants Wenger here doing what Wenger does. Football is the theatre that distracts from the real business.
I don't know precisely how the NFL is funded, but the decision to move from St Louis was based on poor attendances which presumably they felt would be rectified by taking the franchise back to Los Angeles.
Arsenal's profits are two fold, one is gate receipts and the other is tv money.
I don't think Kroenke will like even a short term loss when you consider what he is paying out for, in terms of building a new stadium in Compton.
If there is significantly less up take on season tickets and the results are shit, this idea that Kroenke is Wengers mate will soon dissolve. Kroenkes mates include George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
People who don't want this man at the club should stay away, for all this talk about it not necessarily being his last contract he could still find himself sacked.