Captain wrote:
Because Arsenal are not the fourth richest club in the world. That's been addressed plenty of times.
We're not the 4th highest spenders Capi, but most sources are consistently showing we are very asset rich.
The other fact is that we are remarkably unsuccessful on the trophy front.
Put them together and we seem to have a portrait of this clubs aims and ambitions.
Burnwinter wrote:
@Biggsy I'm not mocking you, or not laughing at you anyway. If anything I'm occasionally close to tearing my hair out, mainly because our minds do not follow the same paths a lot of the time.
You don't really look like Ivan do you? :o
Look, I wasn't trolling when I suggested we might be better off with Usmanov.
I realise he's a controversial character that many despise, of course I nor anybody know for sure until he's been given a go how it'd work for us- which may never happen but these discussions should be had.
Because one things for sure- we're going nowhere with Kroenke, we could be the richest club in the world and all he'd care about is milking it and not about how successful we are.
Most other ultra wealthy individuals who put money into football clubs are looking a non financial return- acclaim kudos respectability worship love- what have you, things their enormous wealth can't give them.
