January Transfers -- Speculation & Shit?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

That's not true, Barca and Real are arguably to two best teams in the world right now and they've invested a fair amount, we could never compete without investing in the team (and I don't mean spending what you get from player sales).

Salaries are higher yes, but so are season ticket prices, in addition our squad is full of players we've chosen to overpay. We could simply have focussed on paying for quality and left the whole everyone must be paid a similar amount scheme behind.




In relative terms, no not really.....we had a smaller income and prices were lower in those days...Bergkamp at 7 million was a huge amount in those days, Overmars too was quite expensive.


Maybe not when we first thought of it, but in those days Dein was involved and it's clear he was interested in having a successful playing side.

Fair enough.

Maybe not when we first thought of it, but in those days Dein was involved and it's clear he was interested in having a successful playing side

This, we have to remember this move was decided id say aroubd the time Dein wanted us to move to wembley, so i think it had more to do with football reasons.

The 1st 4 years was always going to be tough cause we have to pay off the stadium. The last 3 years have been messed up as we still believe were doing things the right way, when we need to find away to beat the best.

I think we'll be fine for the future which in a way is what this whole thing was about.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

We're competing alright. The revenue the club generates rivals the very best in the world, the fans pay more than the majority of our rivals....we're competing but not on the field unfortunately. Nobody could predict the arrival of Chelsea and Man City coming in, but we still have a very flawed model because the burden is on the fans to keep this club afloat and that means they are going to have to keep on raising ticket prices.

Spot on

[Cripps_orig]

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Need to get him

[Özim]

Need to get him

You're right but I'm pretty sure we won't.

[fakeyank]

Need to get him

You know we are talking about arsenal right? We don't buy players like that. Find the next unknown african in the belgian league and we can be sure we will be after him!

[LDG]

We're competing alright. The revenue the club generates rivals the very best in the world, the fans pay more than the majority of our rivals....we're competing but not on the field unfortunately. Nobody could predict the arrival of Chelsea and Man City coming in, but we still have a very flawed model because the burden is on the fans to keep this club afloat and that means they are going to have to keep on raising ticket prices.

What will be interesting to see, is what happens when the sponsorship deals are renewed. The gap plugged by the fans and player sales should be dealt with as priority to keep parity with everyone else, and perhaps (and i can't see this happening) appease the fans by lowering some ticket prices.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I never thought I'd say this, but ticket prices for Category C games are really good value.

[LDG]

I never thought I'd say this, but ticket prices for Category C games are really good value.

I got Sunderland and Saints tickets for £28 a pop...and the beauty of it is, you get a great view from any part of the stadium....

Have tix for RPQ, Fulham, West Brom and Swnasea for £120.00....which ain't bad really!

[Fist of Lehmann]

I can't see them lowering ticket prices either, not across the board.

The club have been canny in increasing the high demand Cat A games and lowering the Cat C's. It would be interesting to see how the whole pricing change balances out but you can be sure it's an overall increase in gate revenue.

[Gervinho's Forehead]

I got Sunderland and Saints tickets for £28 a pop...and the beauty of it is, you get a great view from any part of the stadium....

Have tix for RPQ, Fulham, West Brom and Swnasea for £120.00....which ain't bad really!

I've got West Brom too, lower tier corner, was gonna get one for Swansea but decided against it.