Yeah, the same Arsenal who is having their first decent season in about a decade. The same Arsenal who will return to CL next season and during their sojourn we have been in the finals thrice.
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Deserved a like for the use of āthriceā alone
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I should have clarified, leaving by mutual consent.
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But that requires both parties to agree to it, paying off on the contract and then looking to bring in a replacement during the window. Youāre also writing off any residual value they may have on top of paying off the contract.
Basically caution and sums needed.
When has Arsenal become the standard that we are striving to emulate? Is this a joke? One season of success is enough to convince us to trade our system for theirs?
Long-term injuries to Diaz and Jota would be equivalent to having Jesus and Martinelli out for most of the season. And we have also had not unsubstantial injuries to Firmino and to an extent Nunez. There isnāt a like for like comparison at Arsenal but their impact hasnāt been too much less than Saka.
Our many injuries at CB being equivalent to having Saliba and Gabriel out. What would they win with that sort of injury luck?
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Between this forum and the old one, weāve had calls to imitate Newcastle, Southampton and Arsenal. Their trophy cabinets are emptier than a hermitās address book.
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I wish we had Arsenalās midfield. Xhaka who has been average as fuck for the last 6 years and Partey who was piss poor prior to this season. Oh for the halcyon days of Charlie Adam and Christian Poulsen.
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Worth resurfacing this post from September, 2 months before the news of the MS and GS pitch decks, given the recent reporting that the primary goal for investment was with a view to setting up a soft network of Liverpool related clubs.
One really interesting point that Soriano makes about the CFG is that their franchise model isnāt just about playing talent, but about building a pipeline for their potential executives. Even before he came to city, heād written a book about the lessons that the worldās biggest clubs could take from multinational corporations and tried and failed to create that model and Barca
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230395031/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_8?smid=AP3VA1GJZM3EQ&psc=1
With the ages of the FSG guys, and with Gordon recently stepping back, I wonder if this is a big part of their motivation?
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Thanks for this. I was unaware of the book, sadly its not available on kindle. It does sound interesting so iāll add it to my list of books to pick up some time in the future. Will be interesting to see how Cityās (and football more generally) direction has followed his book since it was published in 2011.
Whereās the fucking Ā£7.5mil PROFIT JOHN??
- Covers the first full season post-pandemic
- Media revenue fell by Ā£5m to Ā£261m
- Matchday revenue rose by Ā£83m to Ā£86m
- Commercial revenue rose by Ā£29m to Ā£247m
- Administrative costs rose by Ā£69m to Ā£545m
- Overall revenue rose by Ā£107m to Ā£594m
- Profit before tax was Ā£7.5m
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So we were so close to quad and only made Ā£7.5m in profit from it?
I canāt imagine thereās much difference in CL or PL winnersā money compared to R/U
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Would have been about an extra Ā£7m i think.
Though if you take out winning bonuses on top of that, weād probably have won less?!
I assume our bonuses are skewing it completely.
Perhaps need a rethink going forward and dare I say it not the brightest set up.
And adding the Everton philosophy of needing to build a larger trophy cabinet. Saving cash right there.
I think i read the season we nearly won Europa - i think under Jurgen - by time we had taken travel, hotels and player bonusās out we wouldāve been out of pocket!
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The reasons being cited by the club for this are salaries and operating costs going up significantly.
The cost of football continued to rise throughout this period with administrative expenses increasing by Ā£69m to Ā£545m, which is due to the increase in salary costs and matchday overhead costs. In the past five years, annual operating costs for Anfield have increased by nearly 40 per cent.
Nothing on salary increases in the official stuff, but James Pearce has written a piece for the Athletic (not read, just seen tweets related) that reckon its a 17% increase to Ā£366m, and the Echo reporting itās an increase in wages of Ā£54 million, covering new long term deals and bonuses paid out. I assume the bonuses were a fair chunk after the run last season, which wonāt happen this season. And some high earners leaving (Ox and Naby at least).
Generally though - increased, record, revenues and into profit after 3 years of not being in profit, which is positive. ARE will be opening next season, so revenues should continue to increase on that side.
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Look on the bright side: we definitely wonāt have any performance-related bonuses to pay this year.
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With all the contracts expiring and winning nothing our wage bill will probably half!
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