Saturday, 25 May 2013

Backpage Roundup: Wright Urges Wenger to Tell the Truth, Edu Claims Gunners Have Changed, Gazidis Upset and Angry, Cazorla Dreaming of Malaga Meeting and More

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Wright Urges Wenger to Tell the Truth Ian Wright has accused Arsene Wenger of not telling the truth and claimed that the long serving Arsenal manager’s supporters are deluded. The Gunners’ disappointing performances in the league so far this season and their recent Capital One Cup dumping at the hands of League Two minnows Bradford [...]

Backpage roundup: Gazidis’ exorbitant salary, Wenger blames FFA for Diaby injury, Jenkinson wants to emulate Chelsea and more

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Gazidis Pocketed More Than £2Million Last Season Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis raked in a cool £2.1 million in the 2011/12 season, according to a report published by The Sun. While the Gunners supremo has repeatedly told the press that spending wisely and moderately is the only sustainable business model, it seems that he himself [...]

Is Financial Fair Play the pot of gold at the end of Arsenal’s rainbow?

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When Ivan Gazidis met fans from a variety of supporters’ groups at the Emirates Stadium last week, his message regarding UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations was unequivocal. It will happen and the clubs are all in favour of it, not least because the alternative – football’s bubble bursting if it continues to expand in the [...]

Backpage roundup: Wage structure changes, Gazidis’ Usmanov block and more

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Arsenal’s Wage Structure to Undergo Changes Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis has said that in order to offer lucrative terms to the club’s superstar players like captain Robin van Persie, the Gunners are prepared to make changes to their currently ‘flat’ wage structure. (Daily Mail) In Wednesday night’s Q&A session with the fans at the Emirates, Gazidis [...]

Backpage roundup: Gazidis on RVP, Biglia, M’Vila and more

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No Rushing RVP, Says Gazidis Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis has said that the club is not putting any pressure on Robin van Persie to resolve his contract situation as soon as possible and insisted that the club understands that their talisman needs to concentrate on the upcoming European Championship. (The Telegraph) Van Persie, who was [...]

Gazidis paints rosy picture

Ivan Gazidis, the Arsenal chief executive, spoke to Arsenal Media on Tuesday, a day ahead of his meeting with the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust on Wednesday, to appease fans with positive, prepared answers on a wide variety of topics. While it would be possible to take excerpts from Gazidis’ statements, and put this into an article [...]

Arsenal shareholder Usmanov’s £300m cash splash

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ARSENAL shareholder Alisher Usmanov has splashed some of his considerable cash on a new luxury yacht… no doubt tempting Gooners to dream about the money he could fork out on players. Usmanov has, it is being reported, handed over some £65 million on the craft, which includes a swimming pool, a helicopter pad, a gym, [...]

Arsène Wenger won’t face his public any more

350 members of various Arsenal supporters’ organisations and shareholders will attend a Q&A evening with the club’s CEO Ivan Gazidis in the north end of the stadium’s Club Level next Wednesday evening, after Coldplay have packed up and moved on to their next venue. At this time of year, since before the move to the [...]

Arsenal the Franchise

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When Stan Kroenke first bought a substantial percentage of Arsenal, by purchasing ITV’s 9.9% share of Arsenal back in 2007, Chairman Peter Hill-Wood made his infamous quote ‘we don’t want his sort here’, in reference to a perceived takeover bid in the making from the American billionaire. Naturally, Hill-Wood’s view may have been coloured by [...]

Why Wenger must dispatch Arsenal star Wilshere to Jamaica

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Henry Norris is the football correspondent of the Bugle newspaper and an ardent Arsenal supporter to boot. He has had somewhat of a sabatical but he is back in business. Each week he’ll speak to Eldo71 here at arsenalinsider.com to bring you his forthright views on all things AFC…please be advised, it is not for [...]

Four Reasons Preventing David Dein’s Return to Arsenal

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Arsenal’s perceived lack of ability to ‘do the business’ in the transfer market in recent seasons has produced a crescendo of calls for the return of David Dein to the club. From effectively running the boardroom for between the mid-80s and the mid-1990s, a decade on, Dein was unceremoniously dumped from the club in the [...]

China, out of World Cup, hosts inaugural China Cup

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Ladies and gentlemen, please mark your calendars for July 27, 2012. On that day, Arsenal will meet Manchester City in a pre-season friendly…In China? For those of you who may not be privy to certain information, it is official: Arsenal will play Manchester City in Beijing, China, at the Beijing National Stadium (affectionately referred to [...]

Arsenal face Beijing clash with Man City in China Cup

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Arsene Wenger will take the Gunners to China again this summer. Arsenal have announced they will play Manchester City in a pre-season friendly called the China Cup in the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing on July 27. We had a successful tour to Asia last summer, playing matches in China and Malaysia. Ivan Gazidis said: [...]

TRENDING: Arsene Wants Sessègnon, Giroud Wants Arsenal.

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In the wake of Arsenal’s stunning come-from-behind victory over Tottenham, the Gunners’ ability to secure a much-needed spot in the top four is still quite a valid concern. Arsenal fans are once again compelled to rejoice in a win that may or may not ultimately end up making the significant difference we would all sincerely [...]

Kroenke or Usmanov: Should Koenke sell out?

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Following the Misery in Milan and the Shocker in Sunderland there have been calls either for the managers head, the boards collective head or for the team to be ruthlessly pruned and expensively strengthened.  It has to be said that these last two events are perhaps only the latest in a succession of poor results [...]