Sentences with phrase «small fan club»

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They also were social long before social media: selling tickets directly, creating an extremely engaged fan club, sharing personal details as well as fan - generated artwork and content through their mailing list, and creating an ecosystem of small businesses that traveled with the band and had a vested interest in the band's long - term success.

They were playing small clubs to the gay community (her early ardent fans or «first 50») and they were getting a warm reception so they wanted to double down on this community.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Some of the fans we have are slightly stupid and Arsenal is suffering from a small club syndrom.

Ya i when i read Wenger's comment saying that improving infrastructure of the club has upped fans expectation of club, really struck a chord.like with a small stadium, enuf revenue wont be generated to compete at the top.and i will say confidently as ut stands, no manager has been willing to stay even 5 yrs just to repay a loan.as per agreement with Bank which provided the loan whixh demanded that wenger stay for 5 yrs to repay a major portion.in that sense, u can accept that club is moving in right direction.

I know that a bigger percentage of Arsenal fans than ever before would like to see the end of Arsene Wenger's reign as the manager of Arsenal Football Club as soon as possible, but if it came down to a choice between having a new man in charge next season or winning the Europa League this year then I am sure that percentage would be much smaller.

I suggest in all seriousness, sir, your sort of vanishingly small number of fans are those holding our club back from vital change.You are, in effect, our enemy.

The International Boxing Club, pursuing at last a policy of enlightened self - interest, has opened two small clubs in Chicago, where for 99 cents, less than the price of a movie, the fans have been seeing some live, well - matched action and taking their wives and girl friends to ringside.

Yes, there is a great demand for success amongst the top clubs because the game at that level generates ludicrous amounts of money no small part of which comes from fans pockets.

it's time for this club to put it's money where it's mouth is... no more half measures, no more settling, no more making money hand - over-fist with little to show for it, no more excuses and no more hiding behind the idea that this is «small» club that can't compete with the «big boys»... the only real difference between them and us is what the manager demands and what the owner is willing to give... we play in the League with the richest tv contract in Europe, we have one of the largest home venues with some of the highest ticket prices on the continent, we have several major corporate sponsors, we have one of the largest fan bases in the World whom purchase a ridiculous amount of merchandise, we rake in coin on tour each and every preseason and we have banked countless millions from qualifying for and participating in various competitions at home and abroad

Can someone name any Arsenal player who went into another team and looked irreplaceable?Just look at how Arsenal fans are hyping this guy.I won't blame you people though.People are even saying we need up to three players to replace him.I guess it will take about seven to eight to replace Messi or Ronaldo then.We've become so bad it's almost as if we've lost our big club mentality and way of thinking.We are behaving like the smaller teams.

protest, raise banner, boycott matches as well as shops and see if they (the board) will not beg the fans n do their wish but Too much of everything is bad... We so love our club that we can do a small sacrifice for the betterment of our club.....

7) Only Arsenal fans, pundits and internet trolls talk about Arsenal as a small club when in fact many players would love to come to Arsenal.

A small step maybe, but a sign that our club is finally starting to listen to us fans.

How is it that clubs like Bayern, United, City, Chelsea, Barca, R. Madrid and other smaller teams information easily flows ensuring the clubs and the fans are on the same page.

It was bad enough when the likes of Cesc Fabregas signed for clubs like Barcelona who were not in direct competition with the Gunners, but losing Ashley Cole to Chelsea, Nasri to Man City or perhaps worst of all Robin van Persie was not only painful for the fans because it strengthened a rival while weakening us, thereby making any chance of us winning the Premier League or other domestic trophy smaller.

Should this even be a topic?Giroud is a player of average quality always surrounded by good players.I just don't get.It's as if only Arsenal fans rate him.This was a player who was bought to be the leading striker at Arsenal and after his years of failure which many deny he's now become a super sub?How laughable is that.From failure to super sub.If the so called world class striker we're signing goes out with an injury for about five months who comes in then.It seems to me people lack vision.Why is it always Giroud Giroud Giroud?After so many seasons people are still debating what souldn't even be debatable.I've lost count of the number of times he's been talked about here.This is the problem with our club.It's just not ruthless.This is a player who should have been gone long ago but due to him being French he still gets the chances.We won't miss him when he goes and I'd like to see if he'd stand out in a smaller club.

That option has now supposedly been triggered in a development that will certainly not surprise too many, though it could be some small relief for any PSG fans who may have been keen for their club to eradicate any smallest doubts about their chances of keeping the player.

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

at every home game please donate a pound or better throw it in Wengers direction he may get 50 to 60 k pounds every home match as they are already looting the fans there.sit on the money and wait for market value to come down wenger.players are there he just does not wan na pay.But we are a small club, wenger is actually proving the likes of fabregas, nasri and van persie that they were right to leave the club cuz all players have ambition to win the league

They can't even fill their own stadium and their fan base is smaller than all of the traditional top 4 clubs.

That's not gonna happen Wenger prices are gonna go up Even more u genius.Arsenal board should tell their fans who pay for the tickets week in week out about our real ambitions.Even Watford want to win the league but they are a small club and their fans are happy only being in the league.

It is getting more worrying and tiring to listen, read and watch comments and interviews regarding Arsenal... Arsenal fans are not panicking because they already know we are no where near or close to win the league (not talking about the CL, it will just never happen, we don't have the level or the stature... In the CL we are a very small club!).

And what of the fans don't you think we love Arsenal FC and we don't get paid to love it we pay to love it, Arsen had his day his making stupid mistakes in what the teem needs, his in a different world then the top 20 clubs in Europe, his thinking too small no pation to win major trophys if it happens it happens attitude,

Our fans are so small time, making the whole club look like a joke and small.

Until then, it doesn't need naysayers and other small minded, petty commentators like Neville, Caragher, Merson and Konstantin to continue to try and prove to us all that they have some special love for the club above and beyond the fan base when all they really have is hatred and contempt and the chance to have their hatred vindicated!

Yes I know that it might be a little bit petty and small minded for Arsenal fans to take some pleasure from the suffering of others, but Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is a former player who showed our club no love or respect when forcing his transfer to our Premier League rivals Liverpool during the summer transfer window, so that makes him fair game in my book.

Yet again the same pple hve put a blind eye and are fighting to save there beloved club coz they know if wenger is around things are getting worse but instead of all of us uniting we moke them and call them a «small vocal fans» What i will want to ask which arsenal fan is happy about this season all over the world?

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

While this might feel like a small victory, I wonder if it shows that clubs are still aware of how important the fans are to them and their money making.

Many fans were calling for Walcott to leave the club this summer, however despite a small number of rumours, I don't think Walcott's future was ever in doubt.

Don't kid yourself there.Giroud is not the one benching Lacazette in France National team.It's Griezmann.Giroud is also an average player.It's just good service which is making him look good.If he was in any of the smaller clubs it's not like we'd be wishing to sign him.Lacazette is exponentially a better player than Giroud.He just needs time and I hope he doesn't share it with Giroud just like the way Giroud had his time.He's been average over the past seasons yet fans would bring up stats defending him while calling Walcott who has the same impressive stats as average.Isn't it a disgrace for Walcott to start over you in CF?If Arsenal were serious we wpuld've sold Giroud and Welbeck then used the money to get reliable back ups who are not inconsistent.

All sensible people realise that there can only ever be one title winner per season BUT all clubs, large or small, have fans who love and PAY lots of money — esp our fans — to support the club we follow and stay LOYAL too, unlike Tesco / Sainsburys / Morrison etc customers.

Offered Willie Calhoun — to the freakin pres of Calhouns» own small portly dudes fan club, and was rebuffed... which I think will end just fine for me...?

It is a small club mentality if arsenal and the fan think it is.

To subject the fans to that embarrassment, after we have paid over a good proportion of our income to support our club, and then to start quibbling over a small amount for the part solution, which in all honesty should've been done two months ago... the same penny pinching that was key to the catastrophic shambles on Sunday... unbelievable is an extreme understatement.

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...

To us arsenal fans, it is a small club mentality to sell a player to our rival and a big club mentality to loss a our best player to our rival for free.

If he wins the FA Cup, he will still want to sign a new deal to stay because to him, the FA Cup is too small after all these years in the club... Since protest from fans is not producing results, i suggest we should take his name to God to remove him!

And stupid fans from other clubs were saying he was too small and weak for EPL.

If people like you are fans then small clubs would never have fans.

Then I look at the fans of some smaller clubs who are supportive regardless of success and it makes me even more ashamed of comments like that of @olabans.

And do nt get me started with Arsenal fans having a small club complex which we have created due the years of us not winning anything.

Cloughie is still hailed as a football genius by the Forest fans and who can blame them when you consider that he took the small club from the midlands from the second division, as was, to the pinnacle of English football and then on to back to back European cup triumphs.

Problem with many Arsenal fans is that because many of our players came to the club very young or bought with small amount, we keep regarding them low quality... but just look at the Statistics.

Arsenal Supporters Trust (AST) who have as their members a large portion of the small independent share holders, sought to agree with Kroenke at the point of his bid and Ivan Gazidis as CEO that they would set up a Fanshare scheme to enable ordinary fans to have an opportunity to buy shares and so participate in ownership of the club.

We as fans, in particular the STH and those who go regularly to away - games, spend a hefty sum of our money on the club, but our financial risks are relatively small compared to Kroenke's: we can chose to no longer spend any money on Arsenal in relatively short time, but Kroenke is in a different position.

The funny thing is the fan who keeps telling other fans to support PSG, why don't you support west brom since you have the «small club mentality».

Team this with the dwarfing average attendances, youth dependency, the «50 + 1 rule» (which consists of members having to own at least 51 % of a club so that a single entity can not take control), clubs paying less than 50 % of their revenue on player wages and the sheer attraction of football quality to the fans, and it is clear to see why the Germans can breathe easily, creating a yearly turnover of around $ 2bn with small annual losses now and again (two since 2003).

Relegation last season after several years of upwardly mobile progress was a blow — but fans and employees alike were always conscious of the realities of being one of the smaller clubs in League 1.