squallkid wrote:
@ Asa, Swiss Ramble I suppose?
I'll have a look then but why the fuck isn't the money used to pay off the debt?
@ JazzG
Dein made what was it 75 million pounds by selling his shares? I agree that the board don't do what they do for a love of arsenal but I don't think the money we make on transfers goes directly into their pocket.
No - just looking at the accounts on the .com website - don't read Swiss Ramble, though I'm sure it's excellent, reminds me too much of the day job!
You're right though - club directors obviously aren't pocketing transfer cash. I do think though that, to some degree, particularly the old guard are still here out of some sense of duty or custodianship. Unfortunately, I don't get the impression that they ever kept pace with the rapid growth of the game over the last 20 years or so, and it took Arsene Wenger to revolutionise us on the pitch, David Dein's pressure behind the scenes (and no, I don't think he was ALWAYS right), and laterly a new guard of corporate types to desperately try to drag us up by the boot straps commercially.
Hill-Wood & co presided over the stadium construction, but their lack of vision in other areas has, I think, caused a lot of damage over the years.
