Reply With QuoteYou can't separate the two, I'm afraid. If you could, Lincoln City could win the Premier League.Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I'll type this slowly and use the analogy you did so that your uneducated mind might grasp it.You don't think that the additional £30 mill improives our options in the transfer market? Allows us the option to buy more expensive players at greater salaries?
You're not entirely sure how this money stuff works, are you?
If you send Mrs wes to the shop to buy you some of that grain-fed mush you call steak, 10 pence won't get her very far, but £20 will result in you gnashing your gums on a lovely gobbet of vaguely meat-flavoured mulch and bring you happiness. That's all you need to remember
If Mrs WES only wants to spend £20 on dinner, I will get the same meal whether I give her £20 or £50.
Now stop being silly.
You can't separate the two, I'm afraid. If you could, Lincoln City could win the Premier League.
We must have *some* chance of winning it, surely?Your everyone is different than my everyone.
Most Gooners I know see missing out on the CL as potentially having more upside than downside. We don't have any chance of winning it and we don't need the money, so why bother?
I don’t think the absence of CL football for 1 year, perhaps 2, would materially damage the long term future of the club. The manner in which the club has been run in the past decade or whatever would see to that in terms of business.
While CL income is not negligible the bulk of the club’s income is from other sources, mainly the new 3 or 5 year deal signed by the PL for broadcasting revenues. Knock on impacts on merchandising or sponsorship none of us know so speculation is futile.
Football wise the absence may preclude certain aspects of team strengthening or player retention but again an issue that can be dealt with and managed. The current eye of the storm is being exacerbated as the potential absence of CL football is coinciding with the renewal of two of our most bankable assets.
It is how we react and recover in the period of absence that is key.
Or Leicester City obviously.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Well, yes, except that my point was that since we already have a load of money and we aren't using it, what's the worry about having even more that we don't use?
And there was a degree of flippancy to my post. Of course the club could use an additional 30 - 40mil, but that isn't the reason we aren't challenging for the league, is it?
It's now £123m.
http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files..._Half_Year.pdf
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And there in lies the problem.... we could miss out this year and then fail to gte back in it for the next 10, nobody knows. That is why I don't understand why people wouldnm't care if we were in it or not..... 10 years of lower income would have a serious impact on the football side of our club
Northern Monkey ... who can't upload a bleeding Avatar
Oh, if you argue that we aren't spending our money well or in sufficient quantities, then you may have a point. However, you were arguing that we as a club don't need 30 million-odd quid of income, which is plainly silly.
The cash balance is fluid as I'm sure you know. It will have changed again although I will admit that the 250mil number was one I saw recently in the press, not in a financial statement.
But either way, we have been maintaining huge cash balances relative to much larger clubs (in terms of revenue) for quite a few years now, this is nothing new.
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