Maybe with a widespread boycott of
Champions League stadia something can be accomplished.
Not exact matches
Champions League qualification remains a priority for the hierarchy at Spurs, especially with the additional funds needed for the new
stadium.
I have been watching the pool game and during the first half the whole
stadium was tense, liverpool fans, players and manager know what missing
champions league is like.
Arsenal is a big name; we are the 5th richest in the World; the Emirates if a great
stadium; 60,000 spectators every home game; London is a well desirable city to locate;
Champions League guaranteed every year; players like Ozil, Alexis, Cech; big fat bank balance.
They visited the Etihad
stadium, where the eventual Premier
League champions were irrepressible in their goal - scoring form, and making a mockery of the visiting teams by hitting them for 5's and 6's.
Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of
champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient
stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.
North London, nice
stadium, nice fans, nice players, nice transfer budget, guarantee
champions league or europa
league.
whilst they moved into the new
stadium they had a set sum to pay back yearly so as not to incur penalties 25 mil i think.They had the money set aside for this.But what i keep asking is where did all that
champions league revenue go, we could and should have done more with it.18 years roughly about 300 mil i would say.
For the home side, the result is definitely not how they would've liked to have started life back in the
Champions League at their new
stadium.
This is the fourth time a team will play the final of the European Cup /
Champions League in their own
stadium after Real Madrid in 1956/57 (2 - 0 win against Fiorentina at the Bernabeu), Inter Milan in 1964/65 (1 - 0 win against Benfica at the San Siro) & Roma in 1983/84 (losing in a penalty shoot - out against Liverpool at the Olimpico).
Lawro has predicted a shock upset at the King Power
stadium, with the
champions defeating the
league leaders 2 - 1.
We have played in the
champions league three out of the four seasons and have filled our wonderful
stadium (all due to Arsene's vision) to capacity with a reported waiting list of ten years.
UEFA changed things to a strict guideline a few years back to say that every
Champions League and Europa
League game must be played in a «Category 4»
stadium.
Consequently, the Gunners MUST nullify the Reds ambition to enhance their
Champions League qualification at the Emirates
stadium by hammering them in the manner of, AFC 5 - 0 LFC.
we have a beautiful
stadium with two world - class players who are have realised that the club has no ambition but to qualify to the
champions league and gets humiliated by the top teams at the round of sixteen for the fans to say» in Wenger we trust».
Well if we failed we won't have won a trophy last season (FA cup would be used to blood youngsters), we won't have players like Alexis and Ozil come into the club, and we definitely would not be able to keep players like Cazorla, Walcott and Ramsey because we would probably be playing Europa
league (or even not been in Europe) and still have probably 5 more years to go in paying of the
stadium because we are not getting enough money into the club (no
Champions league).
Let's just say we sacrificed 4th spot back then for FA cup and Carling cup, we probably would have won a few trophies but I'm definitely sure we would not have made
Champions league on a consistent basis which means it would have taken the club longer to pay of the
stadium and also for us to be able to get the likes of Alexis, Ozil and even Cazorla.
Arsenal conceded the fastest goal ever in
Champions League history when Edison Cavani scored inside 42 seconds to put PSG ahead at the Parc des Princes
stadium.
Does a new
stadium win you the UEFA
Champions League, Premier
League or any other competition.
Arsenal built the
stadium in the most expensive city in the country to build in and never once fell out of those all - important
Champions League places.
And most importantly, he won the
Champions League with Porto, a team that has a minuscule budget compared to even Arsenal during our «
stadium building» years.
Stuck at Anfield, they don't have the resources to get into the
Champions League anymore or compete for the league because instead of building a new stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing
League anymore or compete for the
league because instead of building a new stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing
league because instead of building a new
stadium as they planned 10 years ago, they invested in players, because that was the short sighted thing to do.
Wenger said: «I went with the club for the challenge of building a new
stadium without dropping out of the
Champions League and we made it every year,».
Don't bring the Wenger out banners just don't bother coming at all until le fraud has been sacked empty
stadium speaks louder than banners we can't have le fraud managing our team next year no how no way let PSG take him they're well suited they can't get past the last 16 in the
Champions league and neither can Wenger!
Yeah, securing top - 4 and
champions league football while turning a profit in the transfer market to pay off a
stadium debt while competing in the most competitive
league in the world, as Chelsea and City spend billions at the hands of sugar daddies and United was at the peak of their powers?
I was sitting here during the period when we had to pay the
stadium back and the income of the
Champions League was absolutely vital.
Keeping us in
Champions League and top 4 while having financial restraints from a new
stadium, which is arguably the best
Stadium in the PL.
We were unbeaten in an entire season and we reached the
Champions league final, Wenger knew he had to take the club foward by improving the
stadium and still managed a top 4 finish.
Real Madrid are in full and complete control of their
Champions League quarterfinal tie with Juventus, having defeated the Italians in their home
stadium, 3 - 0, giving Madrid a massive advantage heading back home to the Santiago Bernabeu.
I really hate when Arsenal fans join our rivals to take shots at the fact that we sold our best players in d past, do nt you get it, we had to do so, so as to be at the very comfortable position we are now, looking back wenger did a remarkable job by keeping the team in the
champions league while building a
stadium, just ask spurds n chelsea y they so desperately want to upgrade their
stadium now.
Make a big enough protest and instead of the headlines being «arsenal crash out of the
champions league» it'll change to something about the supporters or
stadium atmosphere, which should shake things up upstairs.
Regardless of how the
stadium proceeds, by the time the Americans return with their schematics in June, they will already know a much more crucial fate, that is, whether or not they have secured a spot in next year's
Champions League, the all - important lynchpin for the Americans» plans.
City take on CSKA Moscow in their third game of this year's
Champions League campaign but will play the Russian side in a closed
stadium as CSKA are currently playing their games behind closed doors due to repeated rascist behaviour.
So a club doing badly on the pitch bleeds its support base to other teams, fewer supporters equal less people at the
stadium, less people buying club merchandise, less tv money, less money from commercial sponsors, no
champions league money etc...
So the fact that both Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey put in below par performances against the Premier
League champions at the Emirates
stadium today has made the Frenchman's job on Tuesday a lot easier.
PSG cruised to a 3 - 0 victory over Swiss giants Basel at the Parc des Princes
stadium in the
Champions League.
Talks held between Barbara Berlusconi and Erick Thohir, San Siro to reduce capacity after 2016
Champions League final with Inter staying, while Milan will look at constructing new 45 - 48,000
stadium.
Wenger spoke about how the minimum requirement was to get
champions league football almost every year to pay for our
stadium so surely Tottenham must do similar.
He would've vindicated himself to some extend, overseeing the
stadium change to return to trophy winning ways, leaving a strong foundation to build upon but instead he asked for more and eventually he lost all the records — the top 4, the Tottenham one, the
Champions league and left himself a monumental mountain to climb.
He created a style of play that was a joy to watch, both for fans and neutrals, and that Arsenal is now identified with, and he oversaw our move to a bigger
stadium while getting us to the
champions league year after year.
He carried this club during extremely dark times when we had limited funds building a massive new
stadium and the unforeseen departure of our best players year after year, YET he still managed to keep us afloat in the
Champions League whilst playing entertaining and beautiful football.
Despite the heroics of the Arsenal team produced in beating the hot favourites Bayern Munich at the Emirates
stadium on Tuesday night, our position in the
Champions League is still a very precarious one.
Arsenal are becoming less and less profitable, through Kroenke... probably missing out on
Champions league, sponsors are going to be less willing with all the protests and empty
stadium, he's said that all he cares about is money, so I don't see why he just doesn't take the profit and go.
Arsenal spent over a decade in the
Champions League, investing money in scouting, a youth academy and a new
stadium.
Arsene Wenger is clearly well aware about the protests being planned by the angry Arsenal fans for our Premier
League match against struggling Norwich City at the Emirates
stadium tomorrow, because the manager today issued a sort of rallying cry asking for us to support the team as he tries to avoid the complete disaster of dropping out of the
Champions League places for the first time in his long tenure in charge of the club.
The debt of building their new
stadium will drag them down for a long time, just as the Emirates has done to us, though Tottenham don't have the extra money that
Champions League football brings, nor do they have a stable team and management.
For Ten (10) long years Wenger has sold our best players to help pay off the
stadium debt and since then he has slowly started to build a squad of players that so for this season most fans have said are good enough in quality and depth to challenge for the premiership and improve our position in the
Champions League.
Arsenal were beaten by Inter Milan 3 - 1 at the Emirate
stadium in the first leg of the
champions league, but Arsenal went to thrash them 4 - 1 and the game ended 5 - 4 on aggregate in favour of Arsenal.
Yeah he's been horrible, record F.A. Cups, titles, an unbeaten season, a new
stadium, a record for
Champions League qualification,
Champions League final.
Another season out of the
Champions League for the spuds will certainly help to convince the France international number one that his career would be much better off down the road at the Emirates
stadium with the Gunners, where he would also join up with international team mates like Mathieu Debuchy, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud.