Sentences with phrase «stadium debt paid off»

Fact: transfers after Gazidis came to Arsenal was of a lesser quality until stadium debt paid off.

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Historically we know that CL qualification was a target when paying off stadium debt.

I can somewhat overlook the 2006 - 2012 period needed to pay off stadium debt, but ever since the 2012 - 2013 season we should really be doing better than 4th given our spending.

We think Wenger has pulled off an impossible all these by paying off the stadium debt and still getting us CL year after after.

As we get closer to paying off the stadium debt we are also getting closer to competing for the title, any fool can see that.

Arsenal may have had to keep finances tight in the past whilst we were paying off the club's stadium debt on the Emirates, but now that the debts are completely repaid, it leaves Arsenal in the position to spend with no restrictions.

Not only has Arsene Wenger finally had some decent money to spend in the transfer market following the Emirates stadium debt being paid off, but our big spending rivals Chelsea and Man City have had their wings clipped a bit by the Financial Fair Play rules that UEFA brought into action in 2009.

After paying off stadium debt — challenge for top honours, grow what Kronke would call the Arsenal Brand.

The question is, whilst fans remained loyal to arsenal whilst paying off stadium debt, will they remain loyal if they think they are being ripped off.

Us fans thought the business model was, A. whilst paying off stadium debt — achieve top four finish and reach last sixteen whilst not incurring more debt.

Whilst we were paying off stadium debt top four finish was vital, otherwise we woud have to sell even more players.

Fans accepted selling best players and top four finish when stadium debt had to be paid off.

So when the 50,000 - seat, $ 7.6 million stadium was completed in 1975, the Board of Regents filibustered, voting to delay naming the stadium until its debts were paid off.

By 1983, the stadium debt had been paid off without a singular donor making a contribution large enough to justify making the stadium his or her namesake, so ISU president Robert Parks proposed — and the Board of Regents rubber - stamped — the compromise «Cyclone Stadium / Jack Trice Field.»

Keeping us in CL whilst paying off stadium debt and having to sell best players is a fantastic achievement.

The paying off of the Emirates stadium debt and the subsequent ability to spend big money on top quality players like Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil has helped, of course, but we have not had to go out and buy a whole new team.

This is not debt free, the stadium is not payed off.

Arsenal are now debt free from paying off the stadium and have no major expenses on the books.

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?

This was the aim when paying off stadium debt and is still the aim.

As I see it, we were promised jam tomorrow, when stadium debt is paid off all will be well, but put up with high ticket prices and top four finish for now.

Allowing our best player to go to Old Trafford was part of the process of paying off the debt from our new stadium.

I had assumed that now stadium debt is substantially paid off and we do not have to sell our best players that the aim would be to win the PL 3.

This article says that «Arsenal are now debt free from paying off the stadium and have no major expenses on the books»

We all knew that the aim when paying off stadium debt was top 4 finish.

Now they will continue to be happy with top four and instead of paying off stadium debt can pay me.

It's been a fair few years since Arsenal were last forced into selling one of their best players and brightest talents to a rival and those days are supposedly over for good now, given that the stadium debts have finally been paid off.

The paper claims that the pressure on the Frenchman to start bringing real success back to the club is increasing and the old excuse of paying off the debt amassed when building the Emirates stadium is no longer good enough.

Then along comes Kroenke and thinks, all these years Arsenal fans have been happy with top four and have been paying off stadium debt.

We are a club with history and prestige — We haven't won the league in 13 years but it was only in the last 4 years that we have had the finances to compete as we have had to pay off the debt for our stadium so if we wanted to judge our success we would have to use the last 4 years and we have won 3 fa cups which is the second biggest trophy in England.

He chose to stay at arsenal, knowing that we would be paying off stadium debt and having to sell our best players.

My hope is that Kroenke feels the wind of change, fans are starting to feel ripped off with the money going to kroenke rather than paying stadium debt, as was the case up untill a few years ago.

They paid off their stadium early, they have a world class team, the club is owned by the fans — no billionaire sugar daddy, they have no debt... My question is how?

Some time has passed, the stadium debt was paid off.

Now the stadium debt is supposedly paid off, but we still are not spending the money, or enough money anyways (net spend).

but still run perfectly on our awesome club philosophy of self sustaining we would have a combined effort of # 20 + billion worth of owners backing us up in wealth proportions that the same as city owners, its nice to know sometimes that we just have the financial clout behind us even if we choose not to use it, maybe between the three of them they could pay off the stadium debt leaving us debt free, and running of our own massive resources, this under the ffp guideline is completely fine to do as it stadium expenditure and not directly investing in to the first team.

Most fans thought after paying off much of the stadiums debt and securing new deals such as the Puma deal the club would finally drop the prices.

An empty Emirates couldn't continue to pay off its debt and, because empty stadiums don't look nice on TV, sponsors would eventually choose to take their money elsewhere.

The lack of CL money will be made up for by the huge increase in PL TV rights compared to what they were over the past 10 years whilst we were paying off debts, but nonetheless, Tottenham will struggle, at a time when the benefits of our new stadium will finally come good.

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.

There's also an ongoing holier than thou attitude that since we've paid off the stadium debt we're above doing transactions with other rivals yet we're asking Chelsea to do the same thing.

Arsenal have come through the tough phase of financial restriction when Arsene Wenger was tasked with providing the expectant fans with Champagne football at lemonade prices until the club had paid off the debt of moving to the new stadium.

Actually Arsenal made a LOSS last year and also the profits in the years before where not huge, we still have stadium debt to pay off too.

Obviously after being temporarily so skint that we had to sell our best players, mostly to our direct rivals, we weren't going to be able to make an instant cash - splurge in many directions - when the stadium debt was paid off.

Back in summer 2011 The issues were fabregas and nasri leaving and not being replaced, having to sell our best players to pay off stadium debt.

After paying off the debts from the new stadium and the success of the FA Cup, Arsenal are beginning to challenge again.

A club that moved stadiums, and in an effort to pay off the debt of building a new stadium, has had to sell its stars year after year.

When Sir Henry Norris took over Woolwich Arsenal in 1910, from his personal wealth he paid off the clubs significant debts, paid for the building of Highbury stadium, appointed Herbert Chapman, backed him financially and was eventually banned from football for life while at Arsenal because of illegal payments to players.

I was a Wenger supporter for a long time, and I've been very patient with him, but consider the fact that for many years the reason given for us not competing in the transfer market was that we were paying off the stadium debt.

Therefore, transfer activity is expected to be very limited at CSKA in the upcoming years as the cost of paying off the stadium debt combined with the general financial downturn of Russian football in recent seasons and Financial Fair Play bites hard.