Blueboy73
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Wenger was bankrolled with blood diamond money from Danny Fiszman.
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Bodicoteblue
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And where did the money come from for Wenger’s Monaco to get to the CL semi final?
Anything to do with a local royal family perhaps?
Blueboy73
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Financial Doping at it's finest
From the vast resources generated by their phenomenal gates, of course. Why else would Arsene in 1987 have left a club averaging 7,721 for one that had just averaged 4,428 over the 1986/87 season?
This, we should stress, was before football clubs were able to generate large amounts from sponsorship or TV monies, so most relied almost entirely on gate receipts to fund their operations. Across the whole of Wenger's seven seasons at the club, their best average attendance in a single season was 6,621 but the average throughout that period from 1987 to 1994 didn't even reach 6,000.
For a comparison, in 1993/94, his last season in charge, Carlisle and Wycombe in England's fourth tier also averaged between 5,000 and 6,000. We can see, therefore, that Wenger's Monaco generated vast gate receipts that were solely responsible for them being a footballing powerhouse.
Source of stats: various pages at https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm
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bigA
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According to UEFA, the Premier League, BBC, Sky Sports and the papers, it's not financial doping unless your name is Manchester City. Then you are just cheating, corrupt bastards who are ruining the game.
Grassland Blue
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Called City a Frankenstein club.
Has he not seen some of the rag players.....?
Grassland Blue
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Seeing as they're charging City retrospectively over rules that weren't even in place when we breached them!!?
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Especially Lurch/Garnacho…his photo at Balloon Door wearing a bow-tie was hilarious. A dead ringer.
Interesting comments re Arsenal.
As MC18 will confirm I have had several exchanges with blind Arsenal supporters on a site called Untold Arsenal.Without doubt the Goons on there are the most blinkered posters in the football world.
Everyone from the Arsenal side of things willing point the finger elsewhere but Wenger is a hypocrite when it came to financial input from outside. He introduced the term “ financial doping” into football and all those Tarquins fell hook line and sinker for it. Again they as a club were delighted to take your clubs money.
From financial input from Granda Media to the capital injection that Tony Adam’s refers to in his books they have had money from various sources but they always it seems are in denial as to that funds origin. As we know the money they own KSE is vast approaching 70% of the money RA put into Chelsea and that doesn’t include the money KSE borrowed from the banks to buy shares whereas a chunk of RAs debt was the original share purchase and Euro Bond debt repayment.
RA sent shock waves when he shipped up at Chelsea and it’s worth noting how those clubs that so willingly pointed the finger were more than happy to accept RAs money for their players.
One of my favourite stories is Ashley Cole’s transfer and how the likes of Dean at Arsenal renegaded on contract offers and then got upset when Cole wanted out. Did Jose meet with Cole ? Of course he did but the hypocrisy is that Arsenal just like every club break the approaching player rules yet Arsenal just made matters worse by complaining indeed the fee they had to sell Cole for made the fines handed out worth every penny and Cole turned out to be an absolute steal
Chelsea could and probably should have retaliated by reporting Arsenal because it was obvious that Gallas clearly had been approached when he made the statement that he would score an own goal if Chelsea, who didn’t plan to sell him, didn’t sell him.
I don’t detest many clubs save Liverpool and Arsenal . Arsenal because of their holier than thou mentality and Liverpool because, well they are Liverpool.
As MC18 will confirm I have had several exchanges with blind Arsenal supporters on a site called Untold Arsenal.Without doubt the Goons on there are the most blinkered posters in the football world.
Everyone from the Arsenal side of things willing point the finger elsewhere but Wenger is a hypocrite when it came to financial input from outside. He introduced the term “ financial doping” into football and all those Tarquins fell hook line and sinker for it. Again they as a club were delighted to take your clubs money.
From financial input from Granda Media to the capital injection that Tony Adam’s refers to in his books they have had money from various sources but they always it seems are in denial as to that funds origin. As we know the money they own KSE is vast approaching 70% of the money RA put into Chelsea and that doesn’t include the money KSE borrowed from the banks to buy shares whereas a chunk of RAs debt was the original share purchase and Euro Bond debt repayment.
RA sent shock waves when he shipped up at Chelsea and it’s worth noting how those clubs that so willingly pointed the finger were more than happy to accept RAs money for their players.
One of my favourite stories is Ashley Cole’s transfer and how the likes of Dean at Arsenal renegaded on contract offers and then got upset when Cole wanted out. Did Jose meet with Cole ? Of course he did but the hypocrisy is that Arsenal just like every club break the approaching player rules yet Arsenal just made matters worse by complaining indeed the fee they had to sell Cole for made the fines handed out worth every penny and Cole turned out to be an absolute steal
Chelsea could and probably should have retaliated by reporting Arsenal because it was obvious that Gallas clearly had been approached when he made the statement that he would score an own goal if Chelsea, who didn’t plan to sell him, didn’t sell him.
I don’t detest many clubs save Liverpool and Arsenal . Arsenal because of their holier than thou mentality and Liverpool because, well they are Liverpool.
