Profit before transfers. Confirmed.

[GP]

I agree.

I think it's one thing every Arsenal fan wants. To be told exactly what is going on regarding cash....because if they came out and said, sorry, we're skint, and we can't afford it....we have to make do with what we've got, then most people would be "fair enough"....

I wouldn't. I'd be furious. There's really no reason for that to be true.

We aren't skint, of course. There's money there. The board just don't want to release it.

Those are the facts, unfortunately.

[LDG]

I wouldn't. I'd be furious. There's really no reason for that to be true.

We aren't skint, of course. There's money there. The board just don't want to release it.

Those are the facts, unfortunately.

Yeah, I did mean, tell the truth....and if truth was, they had no money, fair enough. Of course they have shitloads of the stuff.....but we're not being told where that's going either.

[Ollie the Optimist]

so if i have this right, last summer we made 5 million for cesc, and 20 million for nasri. giving us a budget of 25 million once 20 million profit taken out. so using that logic, reason we signed no one was because we blew it all in the summer?

if thats correct, what the fuck are hill wood, kronke and usmanov doing to our club. fucking ****s

[Kano]

I agree.

I think it's one thing every Arsenal fan wants. To be told exactly what is going on regarding cash....because if they came out and said, sorry, we're skint, and we can't afford it....we have to make do with what we've got, then most people would be "fair enough"....

but what company would do that to paying customers?

[Fist of Lehmann]

It could be solely limited to players going out and coming in it's true but then we also know that we post profits in a financial year including everything. We do all the 'clearing' even without ever making a transfer of that magnitude.

Wasn't it last year that we reported a small interim loss? The lack of significant sales in the previous summer were widely blamed as I recall.

A profit of 15-20M each season is a significant amount for a football club, particularly in light of the fact that most of them don't make profits. Wenger doesn't mention where the profit has to come from, to a lehmann, transfer trading is the most obvious source.

It's the word imperative that makes me wonder. The implies that it's essential to the club to make this lump of profit every season. Profit also implies that our operating costs are already covered. As only majority shareholder I don't think KSE can cream off profits in the way the Glazers do, at least not without everyone knowing. And besides the way Wenger says it suggests that this has been the case for a while.

[fakeyank]

so if i have this right, last summer we made 5 million for cesc, and 20 million for nasri. giving us a budget of 25 million once 20 million profit taken out. so using that logic, reason we signed no one was because we blew it all in the summer?

if thats correct, what the fuck are hill wood, kronke and usmanov doing to our club. fucking ****s

They paid 5 million for Cesc?

Barca didnt pay the entire fee upfront but from what I recall reading, it was around the 18 million quid that they paid up front. Add to that the 20 million for the lesbian. Plus the TV deals, CL money and 3 million/home game... Let's not forget the profits we had made earlier from Ade, Toure, Clichy, Hleb etc.

I just do not see how the board can be blamed alone for holding up cash when Arsene is nodding his head in agreement to what they are giving him! Look at SAF.. that guy didnt take any shit and always got the players he wanted. If he didnt, I am sure he wouldve quit Utd and not laze around destroying his legacy like AW. Its very simple, if the board is not giving funds and helping the football club, Arsene should quit... unfortunately he hasnt and has been a mouthpiece for the board. While I can understand boardroom ****s to be greedy and leeching off the club, I cannot for one second tolerate a top level football manager like AW standing for shit like that.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

so if i have this right, last summer we made 5 million for cesc, and 20 million for nasri. giving us a budget of 25 million once 20 million profit taken out. so using that logic, reason we signed no one was because we blew it all in the summer?

if thats correct, what the fuck are hill wood, kronke and usmanov doing to our club. fucking ****s

Im sure we made more then 5 mill for cesc ?

[Power n Glory]

Didn't we also spend £60m? So how much was left in the pot after we went to market?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

They paid 5 million for Cesc?

Barca didnt pay the entire fee upfront but from what I recall reading, it was around the 18 million quid that they paid up front. Add to that the 20 million for the lesbian. Plus the TV deals, CL money and 3 million/home game... Let's not forget the profits we had made earlier from Ade, Toure, Clichy, Hleb etc.

I just do not see how the board can be blamed alone for holding up cash when Arsene is nodding his head in agreement to what they are giving him! Look at SAF.. that guy didnt take any shit and always got the players he wanted. If he didnt, I am sure he wouldve quit Utd and not laze around destroying his legacy like AW. Its very simple, if the board is not giving funds and helping the football club, Arsene should quit... unfortunately he hasnt and has been a mouthpiece for the board. While I can understand boardroom ****s to be greedy and leeching off the club, I cannot for one second tolerate a top level football manager like AW standing for shit like that.

And gone where, SAF would never have left UTD if that happend he has too much control there to want to go anywhere else, if he wanted to go why did he not go when they did the green and yellow protests he sure as hell did not agree with them.

Only Wenger can know why he is sticking up for the board annoying as it is, maybe he was thinking if they sack me where do i go etc, so he has just gone along with them. Truth og the matter no one really knows and probs never will.

[fakeyank]

And gone where, SAF would never have left UTD if that happend he has too much control there to want to go anywhere else, if he wanted to go why did he not go when they did the green and yellow protests he sure as hell did not agree with them.

Only Wenger can know why he is sticking up for the board annoying as it is, maybe he was thinking if they sack me where do i go etc, so he has just gone along with them. Truth og the matter no one really knows and probs never will.

SAF wouldve retired... he doesnt have anything to prove to anyone. Arsene will be welcomed at other clubs like RM, PSG and many others.