Man U’s sponsorship deal with Chevrolet starts to unravel. What on earth is happening? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood Man U has got Chevrolet as a sponsor.  Big news.  Lot’s of shouting.  Lots of puffed out chests. But what you don’t read in the football press or the blogs is that behind the scenes all hell is breaking loose.  And the story is getting rather, well, fishy. Chevrolet is owned by…

It was Mr Wenger who bankrupted Barca – and he can now destroy them with Cesc « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood More than 17,000 people voted in a poll about the midfield of Bar Bar Barce this season. It appears (I have to say this since my Spanish is next to non-existent) that El Mundo gave its readers 12 alternative midfield line ups and people had to vote on the ones they liked…

As Bankia fails, Real Madrid is teetering on the edge of the abyss « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood The finances of Real Madrid are fairly sound.  If the full-blown FFP were up and running now, Real Madrid would be ok.  They are nothing like Man City, Chelsea, PSG etc. Real Madrid owe money, but not too much compared with their turnover.  So in normal times they won’t fail.   But these…

Financial Fair Play equals nothing, but someone is going to go bust « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Billy the Dog McGraw runs his finger over Uefa’s financial fair play rules, gets it snagged on a sharp bit and scuttles off to the local A and E for a quick repair. There is a report on the BBC web site this morning that “Two…

Football as an indication as to the source of madness in the modern world « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Dominic Sanchez Cabello With the weather like this, the economy like that, and the shop relatively quiet. We in Parade Antiques look to football for the answers. The Olympics simply doesn’t do it for us – it’s far too sane. Apparently, as soon as you stop paying someone 200,000 a week, they just become…

It is not so much the transfer fees, it is the salaries that are the problem in football « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal  ”That could suggest something closer to £1m a game it has cost Tottenham to have Bentley on the books.” —————————————— By Tony Attwood It is a common tactic for anyone who wants to knock a club and its management to point to the transfers that have gone…

Financial Fair Play: 23 more punishments handed out « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood Atlético Madrid recently beat Chelsea 4-1 in the European Super Cup.  Unfortunately Atlético Madrid made a tiny error.   They forgot to pay their bit of the tax bill owed by Spanish clubs to the Spanish government. It seems that in Spain not paying tax if you are a football club is, well,…

For the first time since Norris, one man owns most of our club « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood I didn’t see it coming – in fact I have written a number of times on this blog to say that Mr Kronke would not be buying Arsenal.  And then lo and behold he does.  (Exit editor stage left covered in egg). Good or bad it is certainly the end of a…

Financial Alert: Could Arsenal be forced to delist its stock in the near future? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

Stop the Presses! Could Arsenal be forced to delist its stock in the near future? By: Anne *I would like to thank Shard for bringing this critical issue to my attention. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it either. While we’ve all been settling into a lazy Summer with the only “exciting” topics of discussion…

Football on TV: will we at last get some real improvements? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory You may not be familiar with the name Karen Murphy, but I imagine you soon might be. I saw on BBC news last week that Ms Murphy has had her first victory in her war in the European Courts, a…

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