ColinLee said:Would they not drop into the Europa League anyway?LoveCity said:We (and Chelsea and Liverpool) get an extra £3m or so if Arsenal lose tomorrow according to a financial chap on Twitter. I wonder what is better - that or Arsenal with the extra responsibility of Champions League, making it harder to rival us for the title.
LoveCity said:ColinLee said:Would they not drop into the Europa League anyway?LoveCity said:We (and Chelsea and Liverpool) get an extra £3m or so if Arsenal lose tomorrow according to a financial chap on Twitter. I wonder what is better - that or Arsenal with the extra responsibility of Champions League, making it harder to rival us for the title.
They would, but they can play the stiffs in Europa while the Champions League always calls for full strength unless you luck into getting one of the few really wank teams in the competition.
squirtyflower said:Regardless of the money I'd want the arse out of the comp ASAPLoveCity said:We (and Chelsea and Liverpool) get an extra £3m or so if Arsenal lose tomorrow according to a financial chap on Twitter. I wonder what is better - that or Arsenal with the extra responsibility of Champions League, making it harder to rival us for the title.
Not really mate, they'll get at least an extra £55m or so from BT and Adidas, more than covering any missing CL revenue and their wage bill won't be too different with Wio, Evra and Vidic (all high earners) leaving the club. If the slide continues they'll find themselves in trouble but it wouldn't really begin for a couple of years yet, their revenues are too high.Chippy_boy said:I hope no-one minds me posting this here, but I wanted the FFP experts to see it and it might not be spotted in the General forum...
But are the scum going to be finding themselves restricted by FFP? I know they are a big and supposedly rich and profitable club, but looking at their accounts, they are making losses after finance costs and only got pushed into credit in 2012 and 13 after tax credits. Over the last 5 years, they have made a total loss before tax of £40m, and in their best year made only a £12m profit.
They are spending huge sums on plugging the holes in the rapidly sinking ship and I wonder if that can continue? I know they aren't in the CL this year, but should they get 4th, is all this spending going to bite them?
Chippy_boy said:I hope no-one minds me posting this here, but I wanted the FFP experts to see it and it might not be spotted in the General forum...
But are the scum going to be finding themselves restricted by FFP? I know they are a big and supposedly rich and profitable club, but looking at their accounts, they are making losses after finance costs and only got pushed into credit in 2012 and 13 after tax credits. Over the last 5 years, they have made a total loss before tax of £40m, and in their best year made only a £12m profit.
They are spending huge sums on plugging the holes in the rapidly sinking ship and I wonder if that can continue? I know they aren't in the CL this year, but should they get 4th, is all this spending going to bite them?
ElanJo said:PL most expensive players (est 14-15 costs)
ADM £22.3m
Torres £18.5m
RVP £17.4m
Hazard £16.7m
Ozil £16.3m
Mata £16m
Costa £16m
Rooney £15.6m
Chippy_boy said:I hope no-one minds me posting this here, but I wanted the FFP experts to see it and it might not be spotted in the General forum...
But are the scum going to be finding themselves restricted by FFP? I know they are a big and supposedly rich and profitable club, but looking at their accounts, they are making losses after finance costs and only got pushed into credit in 2012 and 13 after tax credits. Over the last 5 years, they have made a total loss before tax of £40m, and in their best year made only a £12m profit.
They are spending huge sums on plugging the holes in the rapidly sinking ship and I wonder if that can continue? I know they aren't in the CL this year, but should they get 4th, is all this spending going to bite them?