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Open letter to the Arsenal Board

Фев03
2010

I have to say you, guys, that I’m really disappointing with the way you are managing my money.
I spend £6-8K annually for tickets and merchandising.

But I don’t want anymore to pay around £1300 for two CL tickets and watch our impotence against big teams.

I was at the stadium on 29th of November and I don’t want to watch it anymore.

That’s why I didn’t visit the MUFC game. And was right unfortunately.

I can accept defeats, because this is sport. I understand that the frustration is a part of the game. And that Arsenal is not able to win the league annually.

But I don’t want to feel derision, humiliation and outrage.

Gooners bring to the club more than £100m per annum.

You are managing it.

If it is true that Denilson gets £60K a week wages – I’m disappointing with the way you are managing my money, guys.

If it is true that the manager gets a £2m annual bonus for Champions League qualifying – I’m disappointing with the way you are managing my money, guys.

If it is true that you are ready to offer a new contract to the manager – I’m disappointing with the way you are managing my money, guys.

And I’m tired watching how you are struggling with Usmanov and how you are acting as developer instead of building a new football team to do well.

Could you explain to me please – is Arsenal still a football club?

Are trophies still priority a for Arsenal football club?

If no – please declare it officially and I will stop my relations with this plc structure, because I’m not into the business of financing residential (and other) developments.

If yes – you need to admit the facts.
a) We have the team which mostly consists of overpaid proven losers.
b) Arsene Wenger is not a winner anymore. He deserves a monument for the past. But now we need a hungry manager.

These are not emotions but facts.
Denilson, Diabi, Bendtner, Vela, Rosicky, Song, Eduardo etc. have won nothing.
But all of them, have been awarded new improved contracts in last six months.
In the five years BEFORE Arsene Wenger have come to the club, Arsenal won a title, a European trophy and two domestic cups. So there was no drought as nowadays.

It is the time to act now. Immediately.
What should I suggest:

1. Talk to Wenger tomorrow and tell him that he must continue. Resignation now would be a disaster. The team — based on personal allegiance — would be ruined right away. Arsenal would miss out on Champions League qualification with the attendant financial problems.

2. Besides it must be said that if the manager will not be able to win a trophy this year – as he promised at the AGM – the club will have to hire another specialist in May.

3. After talking to Wenger, start the negotiations with another specialist. It is a matter of taste, of course, but I’d consider following ones: Guus Hiddink, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Roy Hodgson, Marcello Lippi.

4. Any specialist will ask for investment in the squad. I think £50-100m. It is a difficult task. And if the board will not be able to offer this amount from club activity – the shareholders must invest in the club. Everybody who sold his shares got money from Kroenke. Invest part of them in the club, please. Or ask Kroenke to invest. Or think about rights issue once again.

Guys you know better than me that if nothing happens before the summer then the next close season will see Arsenal face their worst season ticket sales since the move to the new stadium. Relying on the notion that “an Englishman can change the wife but cannot change his club” instead of your own decisions – it’d be a real shame, guys.

If you want our football team to succeed – please hurry up.
Time is not only money.
Time is life.

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