In the past couple of years, Arsenal fans have been looking at their Liverpool supporting counterparts through envious glances. They have everything that a Gooner has been craving the past 10 years. They have a charismatic manager who plays a breathless brand of football. Their entire fanbase is unequivocally behind the club. They have meticulously assembled a team, without the backing of a sugar-daddy owner, that can compete with Europe’s best. There’s a feelgood factor around every aspect of the club, and there has never been a better time in the last 30 years to be a Liverpool supporter. So how did they manage to turn things around? Their journey to a champions league triumph at the end of a record-breaking league campaign, was fueled by a combination of managerial skill, intelligent executive oversight, and frankly a bit of luck to help the final pieces fall in place. In this article I’m going to dive into how Arsenal can replicate one aspect of Liverpool’s success, i.e. player sales.
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With the close of each season the Arsenal fanbase starts looking for people to point the finger at for the failings of the club. Now that the big red target sign that was Arsene Wenger is gone, it’s not as easy to find a single individual to blame. This season some of us have pointed towards the sometimes-questionable decisions taken by Unai Emery. Others identify the lack of investment in the squad as the cause of our inability to keep pace with our rivals. Conversely, a lot of us focus all our ire in the direction of individual players who have had up and down seasons, like Mustafi, Xhaka or Ozil.
Whichever side you fall on, there is one constant that is unavoidable in any argument. The elephant in the room in all discussions regarding Arsenal’s future. I am speaking, of course, of the now sole owner of Arsenal football club, Mr. Stan Kroenke. In this article, I’m going to dive into the history of Kroenke as a franchise owner and see what we can learn from his impact at Arsenal so far. Is he really the root cause of all the problems at Arsenal? Do his exploits live up to his depiction as the mustache twirling bad guy, in the fanbases’ depiction of the Arsenal narrative? How does he compare to the exploits of similar sports franchise moguls? Hopefully by unpacking some of these questions, we can get a better gauge on the man himself and what he needs to do to build a good rapport with the Arsenal fanbase. |
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