Without the revenue generated via player sales AFC would operate at a loss.

The new commercial deal(s) will have been structured to address this along with the need to reduce the clubs wage bill, so while there may not be £100m to spend there is significant funds available in Jan.

Whether it is spent is another matter.

Without the revenue generated via player sales AFC would operate at a loss.
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Actually no.

Our wage bill is £143m but we don't give good wages. So ever asked why its so high?

Jenius99

Did we not generate a pre-tax loss of £31m last year (not including player sales)?

Did we not generate a pre-tax loss of £31m last year (not including player sales)?
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Indeed. My point was that it was because of the huge wage bill without the huge wages to any of our players.

Our wage bill with RVP, Nasri, Song, Alumnia and Cesc (the highest earners at the club) always hovered around £100m. So how come it went up to £144m after they all left? We have not won anything in that period so its not extra bonus payments.

Now if our player wage bill was around £110m, we would be making profits similar to the amount we did before £15m-£20m.

So who is milking the club if our players are getting the same if not less than when our team was full of world class players?

Jenius99

Agree.

Would be interesting to be able to see the renewed player contracts as would guess that they have been 'improved' significantly more that the club has let on.

£100M would buy you one and a half Samir Nasris.

Believe me, Arsenal are much further away from competing at the business end of The Premier League than a £100M cash injection

Marsden

You cannot compare the inflated prices and wages City spend to that of the real world.

While an £100m investment would not guarantee success by any means, it would certainly improve Arsenal’s squad to at least be in a position to compete with the elite.

renewed player contracts as would guess that they have been 'improved' significantly more that the club has let on.
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Or far more likely, the player wage bill is the same as it was before, if not a little less. And the increase in wages is for non-football payments.

Now I wonder who we would employ, say as a consultant who could charge us, £20m for advise instead of dividends?

Understand what you are saying Pearce, but city have not just been foolish/held to random, they have established a new reality.

An unpalatable reality, but reality none the less.

Marsden

I would disagree in regard to their spending as they have wasted vast amounts of money on, for want of a better word, rubbish; and subsequently written off tens of millions.

Robinho, Jo, Adebayor, Santa Cruz, (off the top of my head) massive buys which flopped. Obviously there are others but normal clubs can afford to operate this way as they would fold.

I think you're secrectly funding a space programme

At halftime during one of the xmas period matches, the centrecircle will open and the ship launch.

Of course they have wasted vast sums on bums.

But those are not the players you are having to pitch at / overcome.

Tevez, Aguero, Dzeko, Balotelli, Silva, Nasri, Toure all cost them over £50M

You have one player who looks like he could operate at the same level, Cazorla.

To catch up to that level of talent, you may see Wilshere develop but I'm yet to be convinced by him, it would require 5 or 6 recruitments at £250/300M.

And that is just in attack.

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I think you're secretly funding a space programe

At halftime during one of the x-mas period matches, the centrecircle will open and the ship launch.
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