By allowing Alisher Usmanov to become majority shareholder. That dude is filthy rich!How will Arsenal dominate yet Dortmund and Juve find it difficult to catch up?
Just imagine they spend that much money again. Other team will be thinking "okay we might spend money too this summer so we can keep up with them. The normal prices for players would reach insane levels. Smaller clubs couldnt even efford players they normally get. And this would end in total domination from clubs with big money like "bayern,Barca,Real,Mancity,Manu,Chelsea,PSG
By allowing Alisher Usmanov to become majority shareholder. That dude is filthy rich!
I don't consider us a rich club. We are either poor or stingy.
How will Arsenal dominate yet Dortmund and Juve find it difficult to catch up?
I'm not saying it will happen. "Silent" Stan Kroenke is fighting him, to protect his own interests. But it potentially could happen, should the Arsenal fans pipe up and try to force a sale.I've heard that it isn't going to happen.
Simple matter of revenue. Arsenal are selling their tickets at the highest price in the whole EPL! They fetch atleast 100 pounds per seat and have a new stadium with 60k seats, that's why they were broke for a long time. They had to pay the debt and are now in a very good situation. The EPL has a new deal for the TV rights which will spike in the 2014/2015 season. Juventus plays in the Serie A which lost nearly all it's former glory and they have a 41k stadium with nowhere near the same prices for a set. They still are in a lot of debt, they are lucky to have been very good in the transfer market, that's why they have a very good team now. Dortmund is now a great team but their wage bill is still below that of Tottenham for example a non EPL CL side, which is the reason why many of their key players will leave them in the end.
Arsenal are getting really strong financially and may be more competitive in future. Dortmund also I think are underrated, they are improving a lot and their finances increasing. They have second place in Bundesliga almost sewn up so have a stable platform to continue building from. Juve I think will struggle to be competitive.
Well, all those financial revenue statistics don't change the fact that football-wise they are not top level. They've made some good deals like Cazorla and co. but they do not have a winning mentality and often look like their main goal is just to get by. Juve on the other hand are actually active in the transfer market, are one of the best clubs in the world, and are improving every year. Same goes for Dortmund, while they lost Gotze they made up for it by buying Mkhitaryan and Aubemayang, and you can be sure that they'll buy another player when Lewa leaves. Those clubs have ambition and don't get knocked down when players leave, they don't let something as trivial as wage bills make them any worse. One of those teams are two time Serie A champions and had a massive unbeaten streak that went on until last season. The other, a CL finalist who still somehow can remain toe to toe with their juggernaut competitors Bayern Munich despite losing key players to them and the apparent "gap" between them growing larger and larger. Arsenal on the other hand never challenge for trophies and their biggest recent accomplishment is barely stifling Spuds to a CL place through some late-season form.
They won't, at least as long as they benefit the way serie a teams do from UEFA market pool. Take a look at this:
http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/Finance/01/97/52/97/1975297_DOWNLOAD.pdf
Juventus was the top-earner in the 2012/2013 CL with a whooping 65 mil EURO.
Wow, how come the Serie A teams get so much? And the Portugeuse teams so little?