Not exact matches
While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my
thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart
money says that it'll probably be
even more complex
than our current system).
Santi is a risk after his knee injury and with his age (I
think Wenger doesn't
even give players over 30
more than a one year contract), sell him now and you get some
money back wait till next season and you get next to nothing.
Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been
more on display
than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I
think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and
money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I
think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game
even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make
more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just
think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off
I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have...
think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement,
even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far
more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I
think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so
money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink
even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap...
even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew
I would have
thought commercial would be the largest income after broadcasting, or maybe
even more than broadcasting, because broadcasters earn their
money through advertisement.
So with Man City having spent
more money this summer on full backs
than most clubs in Europe or
even the cash rich English Premier League have spent on players in total, perhaps the Gunners
think that our England international left back Kieran Gibbs should be worth a pretty penny, but the fact is that if we need to sell him to trim down the Arsenal squad it might be a good idea not to price him too high.
just reading around and all if not most rags are saying our net spend is # 46 million how can they tell that when they do nt
even know what our real budget is if it was # 100 million then we are in profit by quite a bit i do nt really know what they base there assumptions on this is where you could do with swiss ramble to dissect what really was spent from what i could see most of our 5 transfers were covered by out goings and c / l
monies earned debuchy - vela deal, chambers - vermalen deal, ospina - cesc and miquel deals sanchez c / l
monies and other
monies recovered from wages and old installment based deals this is the same with welbeck i would imagine if not then poldolski will be sold in jan to cover this as i
think he was going to be sold and this would have covered welbecks transfer
more or less also and people do nt always realize that arsenal have
money coming in from
more than one source to cover transfers not just puma and emirates deals we have property arm of the club which makes
money for transfers also outstanding debts we are owed of old transfers we receive each year on song cesc maybe van persie and all other structured deals in installment payments sales we just flogged miquel as an example and all the
monies from released wages and youths sold its a bit to complex to just say we have a net spend of xyz when arsenal do nt
even make the budget public so they have no starting point from which to go from i bet you we have broke
even or
even made a slight profit as we are self sustaining it would make sense that we can break
even or at least make the net spend under # 10 million each year at least screw then all we are the arsenal we do thing our way
I can only hope that this attempt is taken
more seriously
than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your
thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your
money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they
even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be
more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might
even start for Dortmund this season... I
think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
It's definitely between City and Chelsea, But City are the favourites because they have
more money to throw around
than Chelsea,
Even though Pep Guardiola and his family would prefer to live in London, I don't
think that Chelsea can compete with City when it comes to flashing the cash!
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season
than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far
more questions
than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would
think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and
even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had
more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find
money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't
even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight,
even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win
more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center
than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded
more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it
even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
I ve just read last article on Bale, and some of fans
think he isnt worth
money, LOL if we had Bale this season i am sure we would be first, not Chelsea, and if you
think other big teams wont spend then start preapering 4th place trophy for next year, we are 3rd team, so we need to spend
more than city or chelsea to
even balance our squad with theirs, now imagine if any of them gets Bale, Aguerro and Bale, or Hazard and Bale, means bye bye EPL for many years!!!
This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy
money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's
more focus on the filthy amounts of
money being spent on clubs and players that I
think attracts
more attention
than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong,
even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the
money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of
money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we
even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?
but I
think it was just a waiste of time.I
even think that we do have
more passion for the name Arsenal
than the players themself, they just do nt care and do nt
even realize that its our
money that they draw out there from the ATM to earn a comfortable living and to behave like POP Stars as they pretend to be.Sorry for my words guys as some of might be offended but I cant just stand the pain seeing Arsenal ended up like this and almost home of some Parfum stars not real pro-football player.We did nt really moan since we have lost those 5 games for the simple reason that we did nt want to put the pressure on the team as the media has already put some heavy critics and pressure on them.BUT THIS TIME, IT HAS GONE TOO FAR!!!!
Here's early
thoughts from Kevin Bradley of Bovada on the Duke game «Not much has changed after the first weekend of the Madness with Kentucky leading the way at
even money to win it all and haveingtaken four times
more money than the next team.
I
think the biggest reason, though, that I love one - size diapers is because they save you
even more money in the long run
than diapering with duplicate stashes in 3 - 5 different sizes.
Asked what he
thought Cuomo's motivation was for penning the OpEd about the built - in spending increases, Silver said he believes the governor looked at his proposed budget and determined he's going to «wind up spending
more money than was spent last year
even though he said there would be a cut.»
And so popular articles,
even if it still reaches a small percentage of people, reaches far
more than the scientific pieces; and I
think you also have a responsibility as a scientist to communicate to the public because you are using public
money to do your science.
If you don't
think Colin Firth is taking this one with, if anything,
even more ease
than Jeff Bridges coasted to his win last year, then you may as well put your
money down on Hailee Steinfeld winning this category in a shock upset.
But they are less likely
than were donors in the past to
think that the solution to that problem lies solely or
even primarily in spending
more money or
even in making the allocation of resources
more equitable, which has been a common thread in work that many better - established foundations have pursued.
Bought this truck with 7800 miles on it and had 4 recalls in less
than a year the factory bedliner in it is separating from the steel and everytiei take it to the shop and its supposed to be a work truck made tough that's a joke due to the manufacturer defects I have to miss using it on jobs to haul and if you ask for a loaner that is not included in the warranty so I have a ram that is causing me to lose
money and the company wont give me a truck to use while its getting manufacturer defects fixed makes sense and well trading it in is a joke after you buy a ram they depreciate dramatically so trading it in will cost you so
thought since they changed names maybe they would b better but 2 hours on the hotline about why no loaner for a working man and all I get is there is no loaner policy when your vehicle is in the shop
even when it is their flaws!And what really ticked me off they wanted to patch the factory sprayed bedliner so I took it in and dropped it off we had a big hail storm and they left my truck out in it and they aren't responsible for that either and you pay 600 for a factory sprayed bedliner and its peeling up and they want to patch that spot instead of respraying the whole thing can u say cheap but they were
more than happy to take my
money when I bought it but they don't stand very tough in my opinion never had this many issues with my fords
Likewise, a BMW 3 - Series or Audi A4 ends up being a safer,
more conservative choice
than the Giulia, and while I'd bet large
money that a Lexus sedan will have fewer mechanical problems
than an Alfa Romeo sedan, I
think I'd lay
even money on the Alfa versus its German competitors in the long - term reliability department... and the Alfa's price tag is very tempting when compared to the other sedans.
In fact,
money is such a prevalent part of our lives that, according to a study by GOBankingRates,
more than a quarter of Americans
think about
money more frequently
than politics, their health, and
even their love lives.
If you
think it's going to go up
even further,
more than the return on your other options for where to put the
money, keep the...
So, one school of
thought would be if you get this lump sum of
money, pay down that car loan
even though it's at no interest to get it to the point where the car's worth
more than what you owe against it.
We will do
more to save you
money purchasing a home
than ANY real estate agent could ever
even think about saving you!
While F2P is not as popular on PC as it is in the mobile market, I
think the mobile market is
even more saturated with «cheap» indie games
than Steam is (at the moment), that developers are therefore almost forced to go to F2P to make
money on their games.
The
thought of leaving some mouthy preteen to die at the hands of a cyclops has me itching to give Robot Loves Kitty my
money even more than I already do.
Still
think they should have made it work
even if they made it so the ps4 controller pad to make the other games work would have made
more sense
than making it a waste of
money.
In general, the
money goes to the best
thought out, interesting and tractable proposals, and since there are
more of those
than can be funded, it is indeed rare that poor proposals,
even in an exciting area get funded.
I
think the tendency of journals to become
more and
more secretive of their contents, to demand
money to see
even long past publications, and to go all - electronic and subscription - only rather
than sending paper copies to libraries, is an extremely destructive and ill - omened trend.
Are they used in things that need to be done for their comfort & convenience, or are they mostly wasted because energy's so darned cheap that it makes
more economic sense to waste
than to spend
money — or
even thought — on energy efficiency?
If you
think that handling your own claim will save you
money, consider that studies overwhelmingly demonstrate that injured claimants who retain car accident lawyers receive far
more compensation
than those who do not,
even accounting for legal fees.
They might
even charge a lot
more money than what you
thought you have saved by lying.
In Amazon's third quarter, the company said it took a $ 170 million writedown for unsold Fire phones, meaning the company is losing
even more money than it had originally
thought, because of how poorly it's sold.
According to studies performed by the University of Minnesota, children may be
more effected by
money than we
think,
even though they may not fully comprehend what
money is.