Not playing Arshavin is like throwing away the skin at KFC
Don Diablo - Black Heat (Whitenoise Remix) Electro Trash
Beirut - Transatlantique Morrissey meets Simon and Garfunkel
Beirut - My Wife, Lost in the Wild More from Beirut, but electronicky
Little Boots - Meddle (AC Slater & DJ Skeet Skeet Remix featuring Goldielocks) Little Boots meets Quality Grime
Dear Reader - Never Goes Fiona Apple/Regina Spektor but haunting
Bloc Party - One Month Off (Filthy Dukes Remix - Vocal) Nice mix
Enorma Sass - Japan
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (LA Riots Remix) Tings Tings Meet The Eurythmics
So we bought this player, we need wins and we need some change and then we go a player down and how do we respond - oooh, I know, we'll defend. Now somebody will come up with this logic that this is what you do.
But you don't do you. When you need points, you aim for points. Why buy a player and not player. What's all this crazy cautious player? Let's treat it like a business and say - a broken player is a leech on the club's finances so we're afraid a player will be injured and out. This is the accountant screaming down your throat.
So we're cautious - our possession. The accountants drive to get more goals in a cautious manner is to hold possession and hold it for a long time. The propoganda of beautiful football is in fact a finance office saying, look after the players - they are the club's bread and butter because if they're injured we will lose money.
The real reason behind penny pinching at a club. Not football - God who wins from all this? It's the Directors. My previous post highlights clearly that we've been fishing for free money in a credit crunch that would bleed dry the nation. Our board of Directors have let us down - make no mistake of it. There will always be people saying that Arsenal are the pinnacle and we know how to make money - like that is so important.
But until we give our sponsorship away to a Charity and lower our Ticket prices (like Aston Villa and Sunderland respectively) we will be behind the pack. Somebody pays for the low interest rate we got in a credit crunch. I am sure the accountant/business speech in getting that low interest rate was more jobs and boosting the economy in North London. Where as we will get somebody else in the country to pay the interest rate we SHOULD be paying by losing jobs and so forth.
Welcome to Arsenal's position, moral and ethical as it is, in the credit crunch.
We're nasty.
Everything is coming full circle and as much as I hate to admit it, all our critics regarding our finances and poaching young players were absolutely right but our rose coloured - or was it raspberry the colour of those shirts? Well rose coloured spectacles are just as close to blind.
One day we will return to being a football club. One day... No idea when but I am guessing with the way the economy is moving - 2010/2011 season. Or then again people may grab and run with their money.
Anyway, if we want to win we have to play our players but that depends on what those up in the crazy office will say and whether it's "cost effective".
Beirut - Transatlantique Morrissey meets Simon and Garfunkel
Beirut - My Wife, Lost in the Wild More from Beirut, but electronicky
Little Boots - Meddle (AC Slater & DJ Skeet Skeet Remix featuring Goldielocks) Little Boots meets Quality Grime
Dear Reader - Never Goes Fiona Apple/Regina Spektor but haunting
Bloc Party - One Month Off (Filthy Dukes Remix - Vocal) Nice mix
Enorma Sass - Japan
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (LA Riots Remix) Tings Tings Meet The Eurythmics
So we bought this player, we need wins and we need some change and then we go a player down and how do we respond - oooh, I know, we'll defend. Now somebody will come up with this logic that this is what you do.
But you don't do you. When you need points, you aim for points. Why buy a player and not player. What's all this crazy cautious player? Let's treat it like a business and say - a broken player is a leech on the club's finances so we're afraid a player will be injured and out. This is the accountant screaming down your throat.
So we're cautious - our possession. The accountants drive to get more goals in a cautious manner is to hold possession and hold it for a long time. The propoganda of beautiful football is in fact a finance office saying, look after the players - they are the club's bread and butter because if they're injured we will lose money.
The real reason behind penny pinching at a club. Not football - God who wins from all this? It's the Directors. My previous post highlights clearly that we've been fishing for free money in a credit crunch that would bleed dry the nation. Our board of Directors have let us down - make no mistake of it. There will always be people saying that Arsenal are the pinnacle and we know how to make money - like that is so important.
But until we give our sponsorship away to a Charity and lower our Ticket prices (like Aston Villa and Sunderland respectively) we will be behind the pack. Somebody pays for the low interest rate we got in a credit crunch. I am sure the accountant/business speech in getting that low interest rate was more jobs and boosting the economy in North London. Where as we will get somebody else in the country to pay the interest rate we SHOULD be paying by losing jobs and so forth.
Welcome to Arsenal's position, moral and ethical as it is, in the credit crunch.
We're nasty.
Everything is coming full circle and as much as I hate to admit it, all our critics regarding our finances and poaching young players were absolutely right but our rose coloured - or was it raspberry the colour of those shirts? Well rose coloured spectacles are just as close to blind.
One day we will return to being a football club. One day... No idea when but I am guessing with the way the economy is moving - 2010/2011 season. Or then again people may grab and run with their money.
Anyway, if we want to win we have to play our players but that depends on what those up in the crazy office will say and whether it's "cost effective".
posted by Arsenal Muse @ 2/07/2009 01:23:00 AM
