Right now we have Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi and some one out of Nelson/Martinelli/Saka for the 3 positions behind the striker if we go 4-2-3-1. We need two attacking players regardless I would say. Ramsey was #10 under Emery.
Arsenal is a horrible club. Pass it on
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Letās all stop following Arsenal, ignore every piece of news, every tweet, everything for about 5 years, and come back after that.
It canāt get much worse than this.
Shut down OA in the meantime, put a countdown timer instead.
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Hereās one out of the blue.
Oh you Wildin.
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Delete your account
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Imagine being given the chance to escape that Burger king kit for our luxury threads.
If, like me, you had never in your life heard of Luther James-Wildin until this very day, it seems Layth did a profile of him last October.
could win us the league, Iām happy for this one
Ah Antigua and Barbudaās finestā¦
Stevenage is my closest football league team so have watched them on occasion. Just checked and of the three matches I saw of theirs this season Wildin didnāt play in any of them 
We reached a point where Spurs outbid our offers, just for the lols.
There is a great deal of misinformation being given on here.
For example the net spend brigade who defend Kroenke and put all the problems on Gazidis and Wenger and excuse the Board and owners often compare us with Liverpool saying we have spent more in the last 7 years than Liverpool.
Anyone can disprove this complete lie by going to companies house and comparing the 2 clubs accounts over the 7 years to May 2018 (the most recent published data) which is all on record for those willing to do the real research to see what the real truth isā¦
Over that period on a cash flow basis (what the net spend brigade on here quote all the time) Liverpool spent Ā£618.2m on new players and recouped Ā£314.3m on player sales for a net outlay of Ā£303.9m. This was in spite of windfall sales of the likes of Suarez and Coutinho (and I agree they manage contracts and transfers a lot better than the Arsenal Board have done and that the management of the club has been awful in this respect since 2008).
Arsenal spent just Ā£522.6m (nearly Ā£100m less) on new players and recouped Ā£252.1m on player sales.for a net spend of Ā£270.5m in cash flow terms, materially less than Liverpool in spite of the mega sales of Coutinho and Suarez.
In that time the profit and loss charge at Liverpool on player trading was Ā£158.5m versus Ā£111.7m for Arsenal and that was even after the mega profits they made on Coutinho and Suarez.
Liverpoolās overall profit before tax and interest in this period was Ā£147.7m versus Ā£270m for Arsenal.
I think those defending the Arsenal Board with their net spend arguments must be either Spurs fans or on the Kroenkeās payroll/working for the clubās PR department.
In my opinion, this is all part of the smoke screen put out there by the current regime at the club to hide how fans are being taken for a ride. Hey presto another terrible transfer window is in progress with the club putting out a load of bull about not being able to afford it.
Anyway I am pleased I went to watch (with my teenage son Don Emery no less) England win their place to a cricket world cup final yesterday (sorry Aussiegooner). It was a great day out and a lot more decency than I have ever had watching the Arsenal in recent years.
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Iāll play - I have used netspend as per laymanās terms b/c that is easiest to compare across different leagues with different accounting rules (transfermarkt) and also gets rid of some of the noise of amortization and ongoing liabilities (which I agree are perfectly valid for GAAP). Can you link those two reports for companies house?
You just google it and go on companies house beta and get up each yearās accounts (for the UK holding companies) for each team for each of the seven years. The information is all free of charge these days.
You have to trawl through notes to the accounts in places for the player amortisation and impairment figures (for the P&L part) and for the figures on cash spent and recouped on player sales (see the cash flow statement notes where needed). Please note that the May 2012 figures for Liverpool are for a 10 month period as they changed their accounting reference date but this is not material over a 7 year period.
It took me a couple of hours at most to tabulate numbers in my note book.
While you are at it you could tabulate the profit and loss charges (and overall profits) on player trading for lesser teams like Everton, Bournemouth and Wolves - I havenāt done this yet but I think it would be interesting especially when put in context with overall profits and revenues. I havenāt compared Spurs yet either - I do think their Board has done a much better job than ours and actually the competence of the owner and Board is a my biggest beef and the amount of unspent profits and cash my second biggest one especially when I see the line being spun to fans by the club and itās Board.
My experience with data providers is that the facts are often not correct or manipulated by the people they get their data from (I would guess often the clubās PR departments but who knows, not me). The audited accounts allow a level of reality check and in the UK I think the audited P&L charge is actually the most accurate measure of what clubs are investing in their squads through their transfer activities.
Swiss Ramble is a professional. There is no better source on Premier League finances (and he takes a special interest in Arsenal because heās a Gunner). He examines Premier League finances for a living.
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1145583637611655169
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1145583645543079936
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1145583654468554752
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1145586493995540480
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1145586504598786048
There are many other tweets in this thread that deal with various aspects of the clubās finances and why the clubās financial position has fallen off in recent years due to mismanagement. I really highly recommend that you read through the entire thread.
This has nothing to do with ādefending Kroenke.ā It has to do with the incompetence of Gazidis and Kroenke.
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I think the biggest problem in the above is the shambles of 485 spend, poor contract management, and the resulting poor ability to sell wellā¦
This is more on Gaz and Weng combined imhoā¦ yes, Kroenke deserves blame for relying on these knuckleheads too long, but he is miles away from decision-making on those matters.
This is it exactly. I think itās largely Gazidisā fault because he ā not Wenger ā has been in charge of the clubās finances. Of course none of us really knows what has gone on inside the club, but there have been a lot of things come out about Arsene not being anxious for some of the players Arsenal has acquire (Mustafi, for instance). Arsene certainly was not one to be loose with spending, but as far as acquisitions are concerned Arsenal was surely doing much better when David Dein was in charge rather than Gazidis.
You hit it right about Kroenke too. The one thing he could have done is realize what Gazidis was doing and change things. To some extent I think he can be excused because the club had been in the Champions League and to some extent a contender for so long that it would be easy to overlook for someone who is not experienced in the business of this particular sport. But maybe an owner with more knowledge of the sport could have had a sense that the quality of the players being acquired was declining. Because he doesnāt really have a clue about the sport, he has to depend on hiring the right people (although it should be noted that he inherited Gazidis, so the previous owners share some blame as well).
Yeah not sure we want our owner āassessing the quality of playersā honestly, especially in context of spending, contract management, etc. this is why you have a footballing structure below you (or any sport frankly)ā¦
Owners donāt have ANY coaching or scouting credentials whatsoever and arenāt in a position to be in the least competent at thatā¦ I mean we donāt ask Fordās CEO to comment on the detailed design of an innovative new engine, do we? Or more analogous, a board member?
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Pretty much,
Technically speaking the manager is the foremost football expert of any club, he should live and die by decisions made in terms of squad management and transfers.
Vast majority of the blame goes to Wenger imo, he solely dictated the strategy short and long term which landed us in this predicament
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