Release date: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 7:59 a. m. – Jacque Talbot
Arsenal are another from Manchester United because there’s a customerArray.
It was attractive to see Graeme Souness on Sky Sports looking to make the audience perceive the commercial principles the Glazer family forgot at Manchester United. Perhaps this kind of thing is exclusive to football, that we want to perceive the desire of the owners to earn cash with our clubs We must, of course, pay attention to reason.
Before Manchester United’s clash with Liverpool became an observation of the protests at Old Trafford last week, we were also live on the scene, but this time it was Arsenal’s field that showed that football had actually started eating itself.
The shiny canopy. Almost all London-based football writers had amassed collective fury outside Emirates Stadium. They provided updates and filtered photographs of red mist, noise, flags and organized the chaos on social media. Something remarkable is happening. Short videos of songs and anxieties. Faces full of jubilation and disdain. And yet you felt part of it, knowing the reasons very well.
Some of the symptoms of the protest were comical, probably not to trivialize the point, but to make his message go viral. Other symptoms were more on the nose, indicating the apparent point: “Kroenke Out”, “Get Out Of Our Club”, “We want our club back”, et al.
However, for pandemic-like reasons, the stadium would not deal with Arsenal enthusiasts to make their arguments to the audience fit against Everton, so they used their initiative, they were so noisy and noisy that they might just hear them. even through the cameras that capture the game from the inside; Enthusiasts were fervent enough that their noise could reach through the wall of their airline’s stadium on the floor and through our televisions.
Was the turmoil solely due to the failure of the European Super League?
This specific monitoring system in fact, a very hard catalyst, but only a number of doubts.
This is higher for Kroenke and his Kroenke Sports Enterprises [KSE], this is generally because of the way the owner turns out to have an overalls for the club he chairs. And last week, it boiled like two antagonistic chemicals that reacted in an industrial-sized bottle. .
The inevitable and concise apology that followed was published on Arsenal’s official website: ”We never intended to cause so much distress, but when the invitation to enroll in the Super League arrived, knowing that there was no guarantee, we didn’t need to be left ”. to make sure we protect Arsenal and its future.
Such was the magnitude of it: a narrow public relations discourse to soothe the dissenting suffering of its clients. And that’s been the scope of the dates between Kroenke and Arsenal fans. It is exasperating to think that this is the case, given that Kroenke constantly claims to have the same vision of good fortune as his followers and yet remains behind closed doors, spitting out his vain excuses through scanned words, as he has.
The Super League has been pretty lamented now. We realize that these creepy monsters are selfish, disconnected and disgusting in cash to the point of prostitution at the club. But now we’ve reached a complicated intersection, like a recently divorced bitter couple who meet for their son’s birthday. , we’re going to have to manage on our own and make an appointment with our clubs, even temporarily, gritting our teeth.
Arsenal, one of six clubs that has returned on one of the horrifying top concepts since the Premier League’s idea that 14. 95 euros for a proper rate, but what’s another with the Gunners is that homeowners without delay had a rare opportunity to do so changes.
Daniel Ek, a Swedish billionaire and CEO of Spotify, has cleverly joined a consortium of Arsenal heroes to buy the club from KSE in what has been described as a very lucrative and very genuine offer. meetings; While this phrase may seem to stretch the truth, all reports imply that it is deadly serious with its intention, claiming that it has the budget to attack Arsenal and take them to the next level.
The timing is perfect: the season is marked in Villareal’s second-back match, which goes 2-1, while access to the European festival the league is now almost impossible. They are also excluded from all national cup festivals. He asked about Mikel Arteta, but for now, there is a bigger enemy to face, and this larger enemy remains adamant, he remains there.
In a statement to Bloomberg, the owner and his son Josh said they would not settle for an offer: “In recent days we have detected media hypotheses about a possible public offering to acquire Arsenal Football Club. We’re still 100 percent committed to Arsenal, and we’re not selling any stakes in the club. We haven’t won any gifts and we won’t settle for any gifts. Our ambition for Arsenal remains to compete to win the biggest trophies in the game and our purpose remains to improve our competitiveness on the field to achieve this.
It takes a genuine lack of empathy to stubbornly continue to do something that will anger and disappoint thousands of people. Kroenke had enough time to revive what is historically a title-defying club, almost a decade in fact, but they backed down under his command. Leadership doesn’t seem like enough ambition: the case of a club with unlimited perspectives limited by the nearsightedness of its owner.
It was in 2011 that Kroenke took over the club with a 66% stake. Since then, they have spent the fifth lowest of the six most sensitive and have incurred a net expense of 409 million pounds; Chelsea, Man United and Man City have spent at least another 400 million pounds. No club can compete with those who double their spending in the moving market.
But the challenge is much more than a lack of transfer spending. Not once in 11 years since Kroenke bought shares at the club for the first time, now owning 90% of them, has invested its own cash in the team, while ticket prices remain incredibly high.
Arsenal have one of the highest adjustment revenues in the Premier League; Approximately 24% of their cash comes from the door, according to 2018 figures, and yet they still have the maximum number of tickets of estimated value (2020). Your high-season subscriptions start at £2,995. The cheapest is 891 euros from 2019, more than two hundred euros more than Liverpool and 500 euros more than Man City. However, they have a mind-blowing hospitality package; the cheapest place is 229 euros for a meal and a singles drink is offered.
Kroenke’s debauchery last year saw the club’s president, Sir Chips Keswick, protect a 3 million pound payment for “strategic and advisory services. “Tricks like this just make enthusiasts feel more dissatisfied. It simply shows how those owners are negative reactions when such movements want a little camouflaged to hide their intentions. Enthusiasts are, after all, helpless, forced to pay what the owner deems convenient to see his club, like a wealthy cuckold who buys another dress for his distraught wife out of desperation.
According to The Athletic: “Kroenke accepted that a bad resolution had been made in the Super League, but insisted that the selection had been made for the right reason. They also said KSE had covered more than two hundred million pounds of stadium debt and 3 expensive moving windows, and Arsenal are expected to lose more than a hundred million pounds this year. “
In fact, Arsenal are the club with the highest notable fees throughout the Premier League: 154 million pounds, six million pounds more than Second Man United Glazers.
Should the billionaire entrepreneur be more than satisfied to absorb much of Arsenal’s debt out of love?Or is he really more than happy to put the club in debt more without having to suffer the consequences?
His reproach is shared across the Atlantic: the former Rams de St. Louis is aggrieved by Kroenke’s resolve to move his stadium to California and rename them, which has prevented him from changing direction and is unlikely to do so this time.
If we took him at his word, he needs the best, he would actually sell it to someone more appropriate, someone who understands the principles of sports adventure and business. Instead, no, it remains despite mass opposition. .
Unfortunately for Kroenke, this is just the beginning. No bedtime, no excuses accepted. That’s why Arsenal will return on 6 May, perhaps in greater numbers, to ask the guy whose money may never suit him to give someone else a chance, to make the right decision and sell.
Ek, the prospective buyer, recently said: “I’m just at the club, the enthusiasts and I’m looking to lead the club to glory and I’m mostly a fan. It’s the most vital thing for me and I need the club to do better. That’s my biggest interest.
Jens Lehmann warned that Ek may simply be some other cowboy who hopes to strip Arsenal of his soul: business acumen and a transparent plan will have to go hand in hand with a 38-year-old CEO eager to satisfy his dream of years of training.
But with what KSE has done in its ten-year control, there would be no harm in rolling the dice. Sometimes the Satan you know is no bigger for anyone.
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