Arsenal Looking Good

[JCW]

With A Sanchez now a gunner and Debuchy and his way and another German to play DM , The Gunners are looking strong and will add a CB and goalie and they will push on this year now the 9 year monkey has left ................................If they led the PL last they could well go on to win it .......................EYF

 

[c1973]

Good signing Sanchez, don't know enough about the other fella to comment. The EPL could be interesting this coming season, a few teams in the mix I reckon.

 

[Papas1982]

With A Sanchez now a gunner and Debuchy and his way and another German to play DM , The Gunners are looking strong and will add a CB and goalie and they will push on this year now the 9 year monkey has left ................................If they led the PL last they could well go on to win it .......................EYF

Arsenal looking likely to improve their starting 11. Still need major luck for league though as squad lacks the depth of City. Debuchy is no better than a cheap replacement of Sagna. Sanchez is good but unless arsenal play 2-2-6 not sure where all the attacking midfielder will play?

 

[pbrown7582]

Didn't resign fabregas as they didn't need any more attacking midfielders but now sign Sanchez

 

[fundy]

Didn't resign fabregas as they didn't need any more attacking midfielders but now sign Sanchez

theyre hardly the same type of player! very little in arsenals squad resembling sanchez, expect he probably plays up top under Wenger too

 

[Papas1982]

theyre hardly the same type of player! very little in arsenals squad resembling sanchez, expect he probably plays up top under Wenger too

I think wenger sees him as a Suarez type of player. Although Sanchez said in his press release they'd discussed Many positions so would expect him to play somewhere behind or alongside giroud.

 

[philly169]

Debuchy is no better than a cheap replacement of Sagna.

He kept Sagna out of the France world cup squad..

Didn't resign fabregas as they didn't need any more attacking midfielders but now sign Sanchez

I would have liked to have had Fab back, but I think Sanchez will be a better player.. Fabregas chose to leave to Barcelona, but it didn't work out. I thought Arsene was going to take him back but he stood firm. Chelsea have got a good player, not sure Jose will get the best out of him though.

 

[philly169]

I'd like to see a move to a 4-1-3-2, with ramsey in the DM, Sanchez, Ozil Ox AM and Giroud and Walcott up top. I know it leaves no place for Wilshere, but he needs to be wrapped in cotton wool all the time. I think Ramsey is a better player.

 

[fundy]

I'd like to see a move to a 4-1-3-2, with ramsey in the DM, Sanchez, Ozil Ox AM and Giroud and Walcott up top. I know it leaves no place for Wilshere, but he needs to be wrapped in cotton wool all the time. I think Ramsey is a better player.

Ramsey would be wasted in the DM role imo, his forward runs and goals when fit were the best part of our game last season and most of that would be lost in the DM role. Also his forward runs etc brought the best out of Ozil, no coincidence Ozil looked worse when he had no one running decent lines in front of him (when ramsey/walcott were injured)

 

[cookelad]

Starting to look like Arsene and the board were telling the truth all along, odds were slashed last night on Khedira (spelling) joining Arsenal as well, maybe the shackles really are off!

 

[Papas1982]

He kept Sagna out of the France world cup squad..



I would have liked to have had Fab back, but I think Sanchez will be a better player.. Fabregas chose to leave to Barcelona, but it didn't work out. I thought Arsene was going to take him back but he stood firm. Chelsea have got a good player, not sure Jose will get the best out of him though.

And Luke shaw kept cole out of the England squad but I'd say Cole is still currently better.

Either way I don't see a rb making much difference to your season. Sanchez could. Still think khedira will be they key.

 

[JCW]

Arsenal are way ahead of the others in the league , they are spending the club money from the new boot deal and stadium revenue and only Man U have a bigger stadium but they have lots of owners debts and are spending money they not got and with no champions league will earn less , I wont go into chelski and city as Arsenal have 2 guys who own most of the club who have lots of money but unlike those 2 the club dont need it , our owners can walk away and the club will still be ok and thats down to wenger , the other 2 if the onwers walk away they be another Leeds , Portsmouth waiting to happen , The future is looking North London Red .........................EYG

 

[Papas1982]

Arsenal are way ahead of the others in the league , they are spending the club money from the new boot deal and stadium revenue and only Man U have a bigger stadium but they have lots of owners debts and are spending money they not got and with no champions league will earn less , I wont go into chelski and city as Arsenal have 2 guys who own most of the club who have lots of money but unlike those 2 the club dont need it , our owners can walk away and the club will still be ok and thats down to wenger , the other 2 if the onwers walk away they be another Leeds , Portsmouth waiting to happen , The future is looking North London Red .........................EYG

whilst i I agree that arsenal are in a good position. Manu UTD are currently in no trouble whatsoever, their 'debt' is effectively a mortgage, which they are comfortably servicing and have massively reduced. Whilst city and Chelsea may struggle if owners walk away. People would be fighting over Man UTD as they are one of the biggest sports franchises on the planet.

I have no idea where you get arsenal being way ahead from. If owners walked away (roman been there a decade) maybe you'd catch up a bit. But one trophy in 9 seasons (whatever reasons/excuses you use). Still keep you firmly in the second tier of teams. You're just fortunate your based in London.

 

[JCW]

whilst i I agree that arsenal are in a good position. Manu UTD are currently in no trouble whatsoever, their 'debt' is effectively a mortgage, which they are comfortably servicing and have massively reduced. Whilst city and Chelsea may struggle if owners walk away. People would be fighting over Man UTD as they are one of the biggest sports franchises on the planet.

I have no idea where you get arsenal being way ahead from. If owners walked away (roman been there a decade) maybe you'd catch up a bit. But one trophy in 9 seasons (whatever reasons/excuses you use). Still keep you firmly in the second tier of teams. You're just fortunate your based in London.

Arsenal are a top club and with the spending they are doing the top players will look to join them because of that , next in will be a German DM player because of Arsenals german connections , I well aware of chelski and I also know there is trouble brewing in Russia , how the mighty can fall , he could walk out of chelski anytime as he has won everything , whats left , maybe he take up fishing , Big head Jose is running out of ideas , Real got shot of him as he did not give them what they wanted , he won nothink last year and a repeat this year and he be history and as for city , they got lucky winning the league last year as Rodgers blew it big style and handed the title to City , whatever takes place it be an interesting season and Arsenal are not 2nd tier anymore .........................EYG

 

[Papas1982]

Arsenal are a top club and with the spending they are doing the top players will look to join them because of that , next in will be a German DM player because of Arsenals german connections , I well aware of chelski and I also know there is trouble brewing in Russia , how the mighty can fall , he could walk out of chelski anytime as he has won everything , whats left , maybe he take up fishing , Big head Jose is running out of ideas , Real got shot of him as he did not give them what they wanted , he won nothink last year and a repeat this year and he be history and as for city , they got lucky winning the league last year as Rodgers blew it big style and handed the title to City , whatever takes place it be an interesting season and Arsenal are not 2nd tier anymore .........................EYG

When arsenal win the league, and beat a big team in the league or Europe maybe I'll start to believe. Until then, I'll hold my breathe. I would still out arsenal below the top tier of players. So far they have signed one player who barca were happy to use as a paperweight.

Roman has been there for long enough to have seen baron seasons in the past and still outs his hand in his pocket. Chelsea were one good striker from the league last year. Their squad currently, without anymore additions is better than yours as shown by the league finish. Mourinho has a record that stands up against anyone's in world football, surely as an arsenal fan you can understand how a year or 8 doesn't make a manager useless?

having read your posts recently you clearly think arsenal are back to their best, I'd like to see it as the more competitive the premiership the better. But the fact is arsenal got DESTROYED by every team that is of a similar size or bigger last season and have currently added one attacker.

re arsenals German connections, is that the German one (per), the pole or the Turk?

 

[freddielong]

This summer was always going to be the moment when the years of relative ration and harvest would finally be rewarded. Back around 2000, when this vision was being formed, the wider landscape in 2014 could only be guessed at.

But if you had told Wenger then that Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham would still be nowhere near sorting their own stadium issues, he would have been entitled to suppose that Arsenal and Manchester United’s dominance would be assured.

Manchester City and Chelsea, with close to £1 billion of benefactor investment apiece, have fundamentally altered the picture but Arsenal still now find themselves in an envious position compared to most of their competitors.

On its own, the £150 million five-year Puma deal provides between £22 million and £26 million of extra money each and every year. The new Emirates shirt sponsorship deal does roughly the same. Together with other smaller commercial partnerships, the difference in the club’s commercial income next year compared with last year will be around £70 million. And the important point to remember is that this is not some sort of one-off payment but a yearly change that will be fully available for transfer fees and wages each and every year. It means that, from 2014-15, Arsenal will become one of the select few clubs in Europe to generate more than £300 million a year.

There is considerable internal pride at this achievement and it was not hard to read between the lines when Ivan Gazidis, the chief executive, addressed the media. "I think it is a validation of the things we are doing right,” he said. “Our club has walked an independent path, standing on our own two feet, and thinking long term about that progression.”

He went on to specifically add that Arsenal had got to where they are “without state funding or the help of a benefactor” but through the work of people who “love” the club. “When we do achieve success it will be incredibly meaningful to everyone on this journey,” said Gazidis.

There are still some thorns in this emerging garden of roses. In theory, Arsenal should be ideally placed to benefit from Uefa’s new Financial Fair-Play regulations and the ‘break even’ principle that clubs should not spend more than they naturally earn. In practice, Deloitte’s new league table of the biggest earners in football very clearly signalled how Manchester City and Paris St Germain will seek to underpin their vast spending with sponsorship deals that would appear to have a close connection to their respective owners.

City have gone from generating £18 million in commercial income in 2008-9 to £166.9 million in 2012-13. This is already well ahead of more historically famous and successful clubs, such as Arsenal and Liverpool, and only marginally behind
Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona. PSG have gone even further and now outstrip every club in world football for sponsorship revenue. These deals will be evaluated for ‘fair value’ by Uefa and, during lunch this week with Michel Platini, it can be safely assumed that Gazidis was clearly outlining his “healthy sceptics” view of FFP.

Yet even if that battle is lost, the wider narrative is clear. Arsenal’s patience and long-term planning – qualities not readily associated with modern football - are now beginning to reap their reward. Most significant of all was the confirmation that Wenger will sign a new contract that is likely to run until the end of the 2016-17 season. This was not so certain even five months ago when Arsenal were losing on the opening day of the season to Aston Villa and Wenger was being disrespectfully told by some fans that “you don’t know what you’re doing”.

Having been the principal architect of Arsenal’s vision – and also the human shield for all the frustration over the club’s lack of trophies amid regular top four finishes since 2005 – he has earned the chance to lead the club into this new phase. And what happens next, now that Wenger has the opportunity to regularly supplement the development of young players with expensive proven talent like Mesut Ozil, will decide his final standing in the pantheon of British football’s most influential managers.

 

[Pin-seeker]

“He has chosen to go to Arsenal for whatever means and that will be down to him,” he added.
“He doesn’t realise what he has missed by not coming to Liverpool; the passion and the power that comes with playing for LFC, and the worldwide recognition that he would have.

Phil Thompson on Sanchez. What a tool.

 

[Papas1982]

This summer was always going to be the moment when the years of relative ration and harvest would finally be rewarded. Back around 2000, when this vision was being formed, the wider landscape in 2014 could only be guessed at.

But if you had told Wenger then that Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham would still be nowhere near sorting their own stadium issues, he would have been entitled to suppose that Arsenal and Manchester United’s dominance would be assured.

Manchester City and Chelsea, with close to £1 billion of benefactor investment apiece, have fundamentally altered the picture but Arsenal still now find themselves in an envious position compared to most of their competitors.

On its own, the £150 million five-year Puma deal provides between £22 million and £26 million of extra money each and every year. The new Emirates shirt sponsorship deal does roughly the same. Together with other smaller commercial partnerships, the difference in the club’s commercial income next year compared with last year will be around £70 million. And the important point to remember is that this is not some sort of one-off payment but a yearly change that will be fully available for transfer fees and wages each and every year. It means that, from 2014-15, Arsenal will become one of the select few clubs in Europe to generate more than £300 million a year.

There is considerable internal pride at this achievement and it was not hard to read between the lines when Ivan Gazidis, the chief executive, addressed the media. "I think it is a validation of the things we are doing right,” he said. “Our club has walked an independent path, standing on our own two feet, and thinking long term about that progression.”

He went on to specifically add that Arsenal had got to where they are “without state funding or the help of a benefactor” but through the work of people who “love” the club. “When we do achieve success it will be incredibly meaningful to everyone on this journey,” said Gazidis.

There are still some thorns in this emerging garden of roses. In theory, Arsenal should be ideally placed to benefit from Uefa’s new Financial Fair-Play regulations and the ‘break even’ principle that clubs should not spend more than they naturally earn. In practice, Deloitte’s new league table of the biggest earners in football very clearly signalled how Manchester City and Paris St Germain will seek to underpin their vast spending with sponsorship deals that would appear to have a close connection to their respective owners.

City have gone from generating £18 million in commercial income in 2008-9 to £166.9 million in 2012-13. This is already well ahead of more historically famous and successful clubs, such as Arsenal and Liverpool, and only marginally behind
Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona. PSG have gone even further and now outstrip every club in world football for sponsorship revenue. These deals will be evaluated for ‘fair value’ by Uefa and, during lunch this week with Michel Platini, it can be safely assumed that Gazidis was clearly outlining his “healthy sceptics” view of FFP.

Yet even if that battle is lost, the wider narrative is clear. Arsenal’s patience and long-term planning – qualities not readily associated with modern football - are now beginning to reap their reward. Most significant of all was the confirmation that Wenger will sign a new contract that is likely to run until the end of the 2016-17 season. This was not so certain even five months ago when Arsenal were losing on the opening day of the season to Aston Villa and Wenger was being disrespectfully told by some fans that “you don’t know what you’re doing”.

Having been the principal architect of Arsenal’s vision – and also the human shield for all the frustration over the club’s lack of trophies amid regular top four finishes since 2005 – he has earned the chance to lead the club into this new phase. And what happens next, now that Wenger has the opportunity to regularly supplement the development of young players with expensive proven talent like Mesut Ozil, will decide his final standing in the pantheon of British football’s most influential managers.

Where'd you copy and paste that from? All that proves it that arsenal are in a stabile financial place. Money whilst helping guarantees nothing. Chelsea and City were still less successful than UTD in last decade, even with the extra money. I'd imagine arsenals top 4 will be more certain than the last few seasons. But unless wenger abandons his principles, will the money get spent?

 

[Papas1982]

“He has chosen to go to Arsenal for whatever means and that will be down to him,” he added.
“He doesn’t realise what he has missed by not coming to Liverpool; the passion and the power that comes with playing for LFC, and the worldwide recognition that he would have.

Phil Thompson on Sanchez. What a tool.

I liked how, "Liverpool made Suarez and Torres stars". Suarez poor pool back on the map with his performances getting cl footy again. And Torres played for Spain during their golden era.

whilst all parties helped one another out, it's laughable him trying to give all the credit to Liverpool. But he's probably the most biased pundit on sky, and is the reason why pundits no longer cover their own teams.

 

[freddielong]

Where'd you copy and paste that from? All that proves it that arsenal are in a stabile financial place. Money whilst helping guarantees nothing. Chelsea and City were still less successful than UTD in last decade, even with the extra money. I'd imagine arsenals top 4 will be more certain than the last few seasons. But unless wenger abandons his principles, will the money get spent?

Arsene has always spent money when he could, he bought players like Wiltord, Pires Overmars Henry Reyes etc so I have no doubt Arsene will spend the money, I only pasted it cause I thought that it explained that the money we have now is not a one off it is increased revenue and will be available year on year (the question was asked in an earlier post).