Arsenal net spend = £11.1 milion
Chelsea net spend = £328.7 million
Man City net spend = £509.6 million

It feels good to be an arsenal fan right now :)

Credit to Arsenal and Wenger, keeping qualifying to CL with a squad that changed every year. And the last biggest transfer was well spent.

And always trophyless, remember...

thanks for your input keisuke

I wonder what was the total spending City made on Arsenal players (and therefore total revenue Arsenal got from sales to City).

This trophy less Arsenal got 13 more trophies than Chelsea ;)

Clichy - Nasri - Adebayor - Kolo Toure, i think those are all transferts comming from Arsenal.

Is this how Arsenal FC delude its fans? Why don't they add the amount of trophies won during these years? I bet half of the Arsenal fanbase is Indian hence the"Yay, we're cheap!" talk.

^^^ because what this thread needs is a comment about people from India.

Good job. :p

Dear Arsenal fans ,

As you know old days are over . Football has changed it is style , speed and tactics just as well as it does business in transfer market . Major impact to transfer market was a booming revenue from TV broadcasting deals. It allowed top clubs to grow richer and sell their brand abroad touching markets in every part of the world. Today , clubs that are aggressive in transfer market win trophies and justify their expenses at end of the year cycle. Example : FC Bayern , Real Madrid , Barcelona , Chelsea and etc . So , this data is a just good story for Arsenal fans to feel some "pride".

I always liked Arsenal since Henry days and admired and still admire Wenger for his work at Arsenal but he really turned your club into cash cow for owners . However , YOU Arsenal FANS who pay to watch , who buy merchandise , your money that supports club and pay the wages of your players are not being treated respectfully. Club board does not reinvest smartly year after year , even Ozil buy is not enough , and therefore you may be up for 9th possible year without a single trophy . Now, think about clubs that do their business smart : When FFP kicks in full effect , clubs like Chelsea , Madrid , Bayern and others will become just stronger than ever . Do not hope that Arsenal will finally start flexing their muscles in transfer market with philosophy they been going with for last 9 years . This is all my observation and I am sure there are smarter people in Arsenal's board but even dumb would realize that these smart people that run the club have not done anything to justify philosophy they been going with.

In every successful business , money needs to rotate to bring more money , further success and expand . However, in Arsenal it goes to the pockets of the owners . Seems like the philosophy that Arsenal been going with should have banked more than 200 million over just last 5 years . ( May not be accurate but I am sure more than 100 ) . So, logically Arsenal should have had a huge budget and afford to compete easily with top clubs of Europe in transfer market , but they are not . Ask yourselves why .

As Far As Chelsea , we are catching up and will close that 13 trophies gap . We already have trophies that Arsenal can still only dream of *I will let you guess* :) . Chelsea's project is a success and every evidence is there to back it up . Every year Chelsea fan base is growing , new sponsors sign with Chelsea and our academy is getting better and better . We been looking to build new stadium with larger capacity . Just single fact that best manager in the world is here to stay for long time to build similar Empire that was build by sir Alex Ferguson in United says enough . Chelsea are planing domination and become billion dollar club . As far as City , no offense to City fans but I have feeling City will end up like Leeds United .

Good points Marcus, all teams are trying to attract most of the fans of the world.
We are far now from that Barça obliged to sell phenomeno to Inter due to crisis, or to be obliged to land Figo to the RM and watch them winning trophies.
I think that a successful team is combining sportive sucess and money, and a lot of new marketing factors made their apparition, thats why the transfer market went crazy, its all about speculation.
A lot of teams are trying to attract Asian players and do their preparation in Asia in order to attract more and more young fans. The new battle Neymar/Bale or the Messi/Ronaldo made both Barça and Real win a lot of money.
Sometimes, teams should get benefit from the few chances they have to rise.
The arrival of Ronaldinho and Laportas management made Barça bigger club than he ever was, at a financial situation, we were never as near RM benefits as now. Competition is on and outside the pitch.

The reason that makes me think Arsenal will not win EPL is simple, the only advantage they had at the start of the season is stability. Now it seems more complicated as Man City and Chelsea founded their rythm and automatisms, i cant see them behind Arsenal with their monstrous squads ( I believe in miracles :) ).

The 2nd leg will look like now to la liga top 3 battle, with a no mercy competition until the crucial games, i think City has a big advantage to play Chelsea at the Itihad. Every other result than a win would now be a failure for the top 3 teams, Welcome to the real competition guys :) finally.

@Marcus You're talking as if Arsenal had the choice. Not every club in the world has a Abramovich or a Mansour to pump millions into the club. And we are still paying our debt for our stadium. What makes me feel good is that every week chelsea and city are behind Arsenal is like a giant slap in the face for your owners. Because we are still the better team, despite your millions. And you're saying City will end up like Leeds ? That's just funny, what's different between Chelsea and City, apart that City is even richer than Chelsea ?

I understand that's how football has been working these last few years, but I still enjoy seeing us above teams like yours. And I also recognize that in the long run, which means in the upcoming decade, it's going to be every season harder to keep up with chelsea and city, if they keep throwing their money at people's faces.

@KingHenry , Arsenal is a old dog of premier league . Look at United how successful they have become . Do not make excuses .

Arsenal have been in good position to buy top quality for at least last 5 years. Just from the sales of the players to other clubs . I think you need to research about stadium debt much deeper . It is your club and I feel like more knowledgeable one .

Difference between City and Chelsea ? Our project started during Ken Bates ownership . Chelsea won 2 FA Cups , one community shield , 2 European trophies and our league positions were gradually improving, and we were in Champions League before Abramovich took over . He did pump more money and bigger successes had come our way . Today , we are established top club in Europe . Since Abramovich took over , every year we brought at least one trophy. We had one year trophy less . Amean I can go on and on about what Chelsea has achieved not just first team but our Academy and reserves . And not just football wise but business wise. We are no way near the same as City . We have a huge difference .

City have been saved from relegation by Sheikh . Just your stats show how much he has invested to revive club and what did they win since 2008 ? 1 FA CUP , 1 community shield and one Premier league that was won on the last day against relegation team - QPR !!!

This year for the first time they qualified out of their Champions League group from 3 attempts . Chelsea were always up there to win CL from the first year Abramovich came . Just were very unlucky until we finally got champions luck and won it fair and square . Chelsea has justified their spending by winning trophies and consistent good runs in European Competitions . Manchester City arguably has barely done what Chelsea did with Ken Bates .

Just according to your stats to break even Manchester City need constant success otherwise FFP will come knocking and financial backlash from trophy drought and being kicked out of Champions League will kill the team just like it did to Leeds when they could not pay wages to their expensive players. ( Like I said My observation , welcome to challenge it ) Did you know unlike Mansour , Abramovich supported FFP ? He eliminated competition by supporting it , so it will be harder for City and other clubs to do something he did with Chelsea. Abramovich knows what he is doing when it comes to running business establishment and football club like I mentioned very much fits to that criteria . As longest he stays away from influencing football managers .

In conclusion , it will be harder if your club owners do not change anything . It is not just CHelsea and City who will be throwing cash in players faces , but there are other top clubs in England as well as in Europe . Last year it was United who dragged your best player not because they splashed cash but they simply gave him what he wanted and what Arsenal never could give for last 8 years . ( Although I still think it was a **** move from Persie lol but that is football )

@Tiki_taka You get it . All this speculations about players is to draw more customers and bring more money . Real Madrid bought Ronaldo for record fee but ask me how long it took for them to get that money back ? Less than a year !! And to wonder about how much they made profit since then and just think about rest of the start players who bring money due to their popularity. Same way with Fernando Torres . You think Chelsea lost a lot ? Nah , we sold a lot of shirts and gained more fans because of Torres . That is business my dear football fans !!

In fairness to Arsenal, they've had to pay off the stadium (an obstacle that we will have to deal with, if we ever get it started) during all this time, and I do believe (now) that buying Ozil was a statement of intent moving forward.

Even if Arsenal slip up and get 3rd, doing so in such a way as they have still makes the Emirates a very attractive prospect for top-class players. Sure, the wages issue will remain, but, I think that they've done their business very shrewdly.

Certainly beats the boring old days when it was just United vs Arsenal every year, and whoever slipped up most lost the title. That wasn't 'real competition'. It was just a two-horse race, like we've seen in Spain for most of the last 8 years. Real competition didn't happen until Chelsea got their muscle, at which point the strength of the league skyrocketed (hence 8 CL finalists in a 7 year stretch)

Marcus maybe you should watch this.

Imagine what would happen if Mansour or Abramovic leave the club? Would you remain as a top team?
I rather watch Arsenal be like now than to see Arsenal with plastic fans like City last 2-3 years.
And what is telling you that Arsenal don't have money to spend? How much Dortmund spend and what they did 1-2 years ago?

"Nah , we sold a lot of shirts and gained more fans because of Torres . That is business my dear football fans !!"
you just can't be serious.

"we were in Champions League before Abramovich took over" Lol, you were in champions league ONCE

"one Premier league that was won on the last day against relegation team - QPR " Is this even argument?

"This year for the first time they qualified out of their Champions League group from 3 attempts . Chelsea were always up there to win CL from the first year Abramovich came . " Eh, you forgot last season? As the only Champions who did not managed to get through the group stage?

The true is you would never be on this level without Abramovic, If you count last 3 years, you spend more than City, so it would be akward if you didn't win anything, huh?

@marcus hahaha everything you say is full of misconceptions about football. By the way this is not an attack towards city and chelsea. I'm just pointing out that even after spending all your sugardaddy's money, you're behind Arsenal. Which is an amazing achievement by Wenger and the players, and it makes me proud.

it does feel good to have this baby in your trophy cabinet...

And now Chelsea fans starting with Champions League. After all your spending all you managed to do was parking the bus. And you're proud of that to ruining Champions League final? okay.
That banner just show stupidity of your fans.
It's like if Arsenal did: Welcome to Arsenal FC, first London team to win EPL without loosing, oh wait the ONLY ENGLISH TEAM.

nah