I need a clever sort with some reasonable knowledge of Arsenal's finances to chip in, please

Debate in the pub last night was that the new world order of 150-200k per week for the best talent, pus xfer fees of 25-40M won't subside for the forseeable. That's not the point, the point a Liverpool fan made last night was even with the stadium paid off we can't compete. So, has any clever sort factored in what the debt payments plus the reasonable assumed commercial and sponsorship increases will provide us in the future?

Liverpool fan wasn't being bitchy, said well look back in another 15 or 20 yrs and feel like Arsenal board were very smart everything they did, as the cootie bubble will burst, or there will be a euro super league to support the very top of the game. Thats debtable, too, of course, but the finances part is what I need to be better informed about.

Chelsea and Man City. Probably not like Man Utd either.

When we signed the deals with Nike and Emirates we stood to make something like £8m per year from Nike and £5m per year on shirt sponsorship from Emirates.

Liverpool/United/Chelsea all get roughly £45M per year from their shirt/sponsor deals they have just signed. We also pay approx £25M per year on the "mortgage" of the stadium.

If we were debt free, and signed a comparable Nike/Emirates deal with the above we would be approx £55M per year better off than we are at present.

Obvioulsy the "mortgage" is over 20/25 years (the exact length escapes me at present), so just getting a comparable sponsorship deal would be approx £30M better per year. Also, we can renegotiate the stadium sponsorhip in a few years as well. This could also bring in upwards of £10M per year.

Obviously the £8M and £5M are just off the top of my head from the time, they may be slightly more or less.

http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Arsenal

Probably.

after I had racked my brains writing that (not even sure I have been sober enough in the last 6 years for the figures to be correct!!)