Dude, I think you're paranoid if you think I twist everything I say to make things look worse.
I said
suggests not
shows. Seems you're putting a little twist of your own to my words
Not only Nina made her position clear, but it's very well known to public that our former vice-chairman isn't exactly over the moon about it either.
It's true that political interests dictate their positions and it's easier to say stuff once you're out. But this current Arsenal board has got no results to back them. Nor they have many hints that they're going in the right direction.
It's not me being naive, I'm being rather suspicious of this new ownership instead. We all know about the sacrifices of moving to the new stadium, but it's been 6 years and our team is arguably the weakest we've seen in the Wenger era. When things should be getting a little better, by logic.
I don't want Kroenke to do a Mansour, as I doubt he would, but I don't want the other model of ownership whereas they will be leeching on the club.
Wenger looks like a perfect cash cow for these guys. He bought Alex Song for 400k and sells for 15m. From a business point of view this is fantastic. But the football side suffers.
I think Kroenke doesn't care a great deal about it though, as he rarely shows up at the club. We've been through this ages ago, I better not write too much about it again.
I think I did understand your view on ticket prices. You implied before that you were happy to pay 35 pounds, that you were happy with your seat and your experience. That's fine. But you're not taking into account yourself that for this price you can't watch the match against City for example.
All I did was demonstrate how our tickets are more expensive compared to anyone else's in the League (like for like).
To me, they have become greedy charging fans those prices.
If you told me you don't mind paying higher prices to watch Arsenal, that's fine. But it bothers me if you imply that our tickets aren't that expensive just because you can catch some lower tier matches for 35 quid.
The part about not taking into account full information and other areas may apply only for season tickets. For individual tickets what I posted couldn't have been clearer.
But for season tickets (where we charge in average twice more than Man United according to the Guardian) this is the most subjective part. When you tell me why we charge more there (state-of-the-art stadium, comfortable chairs, free stuff, what have you), you will be giving me more ammunition to point out to the fact that the football part of the product isn't the centre of it all. It's akin to some other form of entertainment.
What else didn't I take into account? That the season ticket includes 7 cup games? Do they include away games? Don't other clubs offer cup games in the package as well? Did you check it before posting?
I had a quick look and Manchester United's season ticket allocates tickets for European Cup, FA Cup and League Cup (Arsenal doesn't include League Cup in the package).
Anyway, I'm sure we have better stuff to do other than pick out stuff from each other's posts looking for flaws. This could go on forever.
We agree on many other things but not so many lately, because my patience is running out with what I see from Arsenal.
We both wanna see Arsenal succeed, and I'm sure we both want it to happen under Arsene Wenger. But it pisses me off that Wenger (who may have some faults of his own, but still deserves all respect from Arsenal fans) could become the fall guy due to deeper underlying problems that affect how the club is run.
