“He is a specialist in failure. I’m not,”
“If supposedly he is right and I’m afraid to fail, it’s because I haven’t failed many times. “Maybe he’s right. Maybe I’m not used to failing."

“The reality is he is a specialist. Eight years without a piece of silverware, that’s failure. If I do that at Chelsea, eight years, I leave London and I don’t come back.”

@Dephased

MMh that guy is like Arsenal fans representative . He is on most of the videos .

I already placed the bet with every one of my friends that Arsenal will loose title race and will be again without silverware.

What I love about my Arsenal fan friends is their infinite believe that next year is their year.

Every year Arsenal fans have same excuses to why Arsenal not winning trophies. Main reason is always money! What is incredible it is your blind believe that you still can't afford players ..

Arsenal latest financial results November 2013.

Turnover from football increased to £136.0 million (2012 - £106.1 million) with strong growth across each of the Club’s key areas of activity.

Match day income increased to £45.0 million (2012 - £37.8 million) with the Emirates Cup returning to the pre-season schedule and the UEFA Champions League qualifying round providing an additional home game.

Broadcasting revenue was boosted to £52.0 million (2012 - £40.1 million) principally as a result of the Premier League’s new contracts with Sky and BT.

Commercial and retail revenues rose to £38.4 million (2012 - £27.7 million) mainly due to the extended partnership arrangements with Emirates which were not yet in force for the comparative period.

As a result of these changes in football turnover, partially offset by increased costs, (mainly relating to player wages), operating profits (before depreciation and player trading) from football increased to £22.2 million (2012 - £4.4 million).

Property revenues were significantly lower at £2.0 million (2012 - £32.3 million which included the sale of the Queensland Road market housing site) and operating profits from property amounted to £0.7 million (2012 - £1.9 million).

In may 2013 Gunners signed a massive new £150 million sponsorship deal with Emirates Airlines a couple of months ago. Even Arsenal's chief executive Ivan Gazidis said that it would allow the club to "be more financially competitive," "pay bigger salaries" and "invest more in transfer fees."
Profit on sale of player registrations amounted to £6.1 million which was significantly lower than the prior year comparative (2012 - £42.5 million).

Group loss before tax was £2.2 million (2012 – profit of £17.8 million).

The Group has no short-term debt and cash reserves, excluding the balances designated as debt service reserves, amounted £120.6 million (2012 - £99.7 million).

I REPEAT : The club had cash balances of 120.6 million pounds as at Nov. 30, up from 99.7 million, which excludes debt service reserve balances.

Past year Arsenal announced that at the end of the season Puma SE will replace Nike Inc. as the club’s jersey supplier in a multiyear agreement that the team says is the largest commercial agreement in its 127-year history. The pact is worth 150 million pounds ($249 million) over five years with an additional £4 million pounds annually in “possible add-ons,” according to London’s Daily Telegraph. That tops Manchester United’s 25 million-pound annual deal with Nike and Liverpool’s contract with Warrior Sports for a similar amount.

@Alex Batak has whole thread on how much title winning team will get and even second and third places will bring good profit to cover any looses during transfer window .

So , can we please end this cry about not having money ? It really becoming annoying ...

Da fuq have i just read marcus?

Since 2005 : Henry, Fabregas, Hleb, Nasri, Van Persie, Viera, Clichy, Song, Adebayor, Ashley Cole and others were sold when they were in a good form to other big clubs, all those players had something in common, they were not the stars they are when they first arrived to Arsenal.
Only United faced the departure of Ronaldo, but replaced him after by RVP who came from Arsenal.
Arsenal may have not given their fans a trophy, but they gave to Football all those years is respectable, they were always been considered as serious rivals and they are even more serious this year.

@tiki_taka, Ferguson didn't sign RVP as Ronaldo's replacement. Not sure what made you come up with such a conclusion.

@tiki_taka Why would any other club fan care about this? If they sold them for profit then it's their problem not the other clubs and surely not an excuse. Here are what Wenger spent during his reign as Arsenal's manager. The flops and the good signings.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1654843-arsenal-charting-gunners-transfer-spending-year-by-year-under-arsene-wenger/page/1.

Not to mention that most if not all those players who left Arsenal has finally won something and couldn't be any much happier.

@arsenalgunner

This is the report I gathered from Arsenal's main website that posted financial statement for the past year cycle. Also, other info I gathered from various websites. Editing on footyroom sucks, so it did not come out the way I wanted it. Also, English is not my first language so please excuse my grammar. I AM trying to improve it.

There you go Marcus it's edited now. and Btw, FR fixed the backslash editing issue. So you can edit it now without any problems. :)

Thank you very much @Alex :)

Just want to make a closure about Mourinho being “classless” with his "dirty" tricks. We are all talking about what Mourinho said . You are calling him names and can't calm down about him. Newspapers are talking about Mourinho . Wenger and Pelegrini got into word fight with Jose. However, you know who is not in the fight? Chelsea football squad! No one mentions that payers had a bad match. Mikel's errors allowed Silva to flourish in midfield. Ramires was lazy, gave to much space in midfield and lost too many balls . David Luiz weak defensive marking cost us second goal and etc players. No one is talking about player’s performances, so there is no added pressure on players. They can relax and prepare for next match. This is exactly what Mourinho wanted. As you can see it is working pretty damn well! That is what Great managers do ! That is what Sir Alex used to do and was great at it !

@marcus who gives a damn about mourinho's mind games you're out of the fa cup. And you can say all you want about his "mind games", to me he is just a whiny and disrespectful man. And no one got into a word fight with jose, jose made up this word fight, no one responded to the provocation and it was pathetic.

This thread is quite annoying now.

^true.. mods.. close it down..

You care , Media does care and it is good enough . Anyhow I respect every football fan here and for the sake of healthy relationship we have between football fans this thread should be closed .

@V Why?

We're all fighting over an argument between two old men managing different football clubs with different beliefs. We seriously look like idiots.

It's not just an argument. More like elephant in the room. It's good opportunity to address it..

You do make a good point, but you can't really expect this to be addressed properly here after all the bullsh*t spewed up in this thread? You can't blame Arsenal fans for getting mad though. If the insult was directed at Mourinho I'd be pissed off too. This type of discussion never really works out in the end.

The elephant has left the room already, and I'm following in it's footsteps.