Why do the board and Wenger fear spending money and allowing Investment from Usmanov? And why do they allow us to be the laughing stock of the premier league??
There have been countless articles on here about the on going Kroenke / Usmanov debate and this in turn leads to the RVP saga and back even further to Samir Na$ri and beyond. I am well aware that I run the risk of being shellacked by many of you on here for bringing this up and highlighting the negatives rather than being blindly positive and hoping for the best.
However of all the articles I’ve read on here regarding this subject I have never heard anyone bring up the most important issue of all and that what are the Board and Wenger scared of regarding their financial situation? And why are the Board and AW allowing us to become an absolute laughing stock in the eyes of the footballing world?
Firstly let’s address the first issue, we are constantly told by mostly pro Kroenke supporters and occasionally by the board that the clubs current financial plan is in place to avoid the possibility of being dependant on one super rich investor who may potentially walk away and leave us deeply in debt and even more deeply in trouble. The argument for this cites the rivals we have in the premier league I.e. Chelsea and more recently Man City and the FFP rules that FIFA have been promising to bring in over the last few years.
However we have to look at this in a real sense and know that the likes of Roman Abramovich are about as likely to walk away from Chelsea after so much investment as Stan Kroenke is likely to put any money into our club. He has been at Stamford Bridge for a number of years now and shows no signs at all of wanting to desert the club especially now that they have won the champions League. The investors at City are of an equally stoic persuasion and are hardly likely to invest millions and then just pull away without warning. Why then would AFC be soooo scared of One Alisher Usmanov doing just that? When clearly he is a dedicated Arsenal Fan?
Or is it that the current Board made a huge sum of money for their personal fortunes by allowing Stan Kroenke onto the board as majority share holder and now have to block Unmanov as he is in all reality a major rival of Koneke’s and would also be able to “see the books” and any improprieties that have gone on??.
The so called FFP ruling that FIFA have been promising for so long will be a watered down “easy to bypass” set of half rules that the fianancial giants that run the likes of PSG and Barcelona will easily sidestep in order to carry on as usual. So why is the Arsenal Board apparently so scared of both of these issues?? Are they really that naïve? Or is it down to a different internal issue? After all Peter Hill-Wood once said that they would not sell out to foreign investors and then blocked Usmanov and allowed Kroenke in – well why is an American any less foreign than an Uzbek??
Secondly and probably more importantly why are we the fans, the ones who make the club what it is, the ones who pay the bills by buying the shirts and spending the money on the season tickets, and all the other stuff etc. We’re the ones who season after season have to endure the ridicule of other fans who mock us for being a feeder club to other bigger investors, and for showing no ambition and no will to win. We are constantly berated in the press and even our old guard who achieved such glory have come to realise that our current policies will take us nowhere. Why there is no concern and no information coming out that can alleviate this??
For the proud fans of our glorious and historic club?? How long do they think this will be allowed to continue?? And why do they not realise that globally the Arsenal brand is coming to represent lies, mistruths and disinformation – rather than honesty, good investment and successful footballing campaigns. Wenger’s policies worked once but that was before big investment negated his skills and efforts. The day has passed where Wenger would have bought in the likes of Eden Hazard for a few million and turned him into a super star because now Wenger only has to look at a player and every other club with bigger wallets now buy these players! Is Arsene Wenger not a victim of his own success??
If the board fear a financial global meltdown in the footballing world, what good would it be to be the last Club standing?? If there is no clubs left to play? Likewise how will it benefit the likes of City if they have every top class player in the world and no one can compete with them? The Arsenal Board is trying to stop the destruction of football as we know it but by doing so they run a very real risk of destroying their own club in the process.
Tradition and history are built on success not on mediocrity……
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