Silent Stan Krankee and the AST today

[Coney]

From the telegraph

Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke fully supportive of Arsene Wenger ahead of club board meeting

So he's fucked then.

[BOBN]

lol @ warnock being likeable,

his defence of barton the other week was outrageous.

[LDG]

http://www.arsenaltrust.org/news/201...-football-club

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

link LDG- some interesting parts:

The current wage bill of c£130m is sizeable and in the view of the AST there is
clear inefficiency in wage spend evidenced by poor
performances on the pitch and the number of players
the club have either on loan (ie can't be sold) or deemed not good enough to play in the first team.
Our wage spend is 40% higher than the payroll at another club in North
London and Arsenal are in danger of being overtaken
more than temporarily by those who spend their wages more efficiently.

and more importantly

If reduced revenues
push the club into a
loss making position, are there
FFP issues for Arsenal's playing
cost base in 2013 and 2014? It was only during the
summer of 2009 that a rights issue proposal to give the
manager additional firepower in the face of increased
competition was rejected by the Board as "not necessary" citing specific advice from
Arsène Wenger.

For those who can't remember or don't understand that was when Usmanov urged the shareholders to basically rebuy their shares (more precisely percentage ownership) and give all the proceeds to AW to ONLY spend on players. That little trick by the so called villian would have cost us the fans, the club we love and AW, NOTHING! But the important point now is under UEFAs new FFP policy, we probably can't dream of pulling that trick off again. But don't worry, AW the hostage, loves the club more than all of us and feels the pain more than all of us, and that's all that really matters

[Cripps_orig]

ARSENE WENGER has £50millon sitting in his transfer kitty.

And Gunners fans who have done the maths want to know why he has not spent it.

The Arsenal Supporters' Trust are demanding answers from club owner Stan Kroenke and the Emirates board as Wenger makes it SEVEN seasons without a trophy.

At a lively AST meeting last night, members asked if Wenger was held back from spending last summer and in January because of fears Arsenal would not qualify for next season's Champions League.

They also wanted to know why North London rivals Spurs are so far ahead despite having a 40 per cent lower wage bill.

Fans fear failure to secure a top-four spot will lead to playing budgets being slashed.

Arsenal are expected to announce pre-tax profits of about £45m — boosted by the sales of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.

The club insists it is Wenger's choice to spend on players.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ion-kitty.html

As expected, all down to Wenger

[Olivier's xmas twist]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ion-kitty.html

As expected, all down to Wenger

Yep because anybody from the sun would really knows what goes down in our club, do you really thing the board are going to say anything diffrent.

[Cripps_orig]

Ah the "its from the Sun so must be BS" excuse the WUMs hide behind

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Ah the "its from the Sun so must be BS" excuse the WUMs hide behind

Never said it was BS read what i said

[Coney]

Never said it was BS read what i said

Alright - I'll say its bullshit then.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Alright - I'll say its bullshit then.

I mean how would the sun know how much money we had to spend and i doubt anyone in the club would tell them a thing.