Arsenal Sold Out

[Geezer]

I don't mean to take over from DVT but I just saw this, I never knew Arsenal were moving, but then again I know fuck all when it comes to football.

So are they now owned by Arabs????

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14050-1884233,00.html

[NumptyNuts]

I don't mean to take over from DVT but I just saw this, I never knew Arsenal were moving, but then again I know fuck all when it comes to football.

So are they now owned by Arabs????

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14050-1884233,00.html

Couldnt agree with more on something - they do not own the club however, they I beleive have bought the stadium name sponship rights, this is pretty new to football though due to the high demands on wages clubs are doing this more often.

Leciester play at the Walkers Statdium for example its name was Filbert Street.

Heres some details on the Arsenal Stadia sponsorship

BACKGROUND:

Arsenal Football Club has just signed (26th February) a sponsorship deal to promote Israel as a tourist destination.


The £350,000 agreement makes Israel Arsenal's "official and exclusive travel destination." Israel will be featured on digital perimeter boards and 450 high-definition LCD screens at the stadium on game days.[1] The tourism ministry will also have access to the club's official website Arsenal.com, database and magazine to promote Israel as a holiday destination [2]

The televised ads will reach audiences of up to 700 million in an estimated 198 countries. The Israeli Tourism Ministry will also receive intellectual property rights, the use of the team logo and the right to use photos of the team and its players in ads. For an additional fee, Arsenal players will also appear in the ads.[3]

The deal doesn't stop with promoting Israel but actually grants Israel a physical presence in the stadium. The Israeli Tourism Ministry can use the stadium's banquet hall twice a year and can organize an exhibition at the end of the playing season.[3] The stadium will also feature permanent sales tables for t-shirts.[4]

[NumptyNuts]

Just an after thought, thinking of all the grief our fans give the spurs yids this is kind of comical :)

[Guest]

Leciester play at the Walkers Statdium for example its name was Filbert Street.
Filbert Street and the Walkers are different stadia. Leicester City moved from one to the other in 2002.

[NumptyNuts]

Filbert Street and the Walkers are different stadia. Leicester City moved from one to the other in 2002.

Yes sorry i didnt explain that right - when they moved to a new ground they sold the naming rights - this is what AFC have done.

BTW say your link trade post just about to reply :-0

[xcite-tv]

Just an after thought, thinking of all the grief our fans give the spurs yids this is kind of comical :)


Spurs owned by the Jews and Arsenal the Arabs

will the Gazza ( i know its a bad one) strip be situated,, Holloway Rd ???

[NumptyNuts]

they will all pull out when we end up 5th and V real turn us over

[NumptyNuts]

Spurs owned by the Jews and Arsenal the Arabs

will the Gazza ( i know its a bad one) strip be situated,, Holloway Rd ???


My mate sent me this hes got of it the press wire - good read but I have to say Im not as confident

1 SOCCER Arsenal Comment

HENRY OWES GUNNERS NOTHING

By Frank Malley, PA Chief Sports Writer

When Thierry Henry told reporters he did not owe the Arsenal fans anything this week it preyed on his mind so much that he instigated a TV interview to reiterate his affection for the club.

He really need not have bothered.

There cannot be a genuine Arsenal supporter in the land who would not agree with Henry's sentiments. True, they would be sad to see him go and they would wonder when again they might see the like of the greatest player and most prolific scorer in the club's history.

The club's directors, too, would wonder how they might fill the new Emirates Stadium next season without their star attraction.

But to a man they would bid him the most generous of farewells.

Why? Because in seven years you can count on one hand the times when Henry has not been the most influential player in an Arsenal shirt.

"Don't you see my commitment on the pitch?" he asked reporters somewhat tetchily this week.

The answer, of course, is 'yes' and always has been and never more so than in the final weeks of a season in which Arsenal are tantalisingly close to the greatest feat in their history.

No, the 1-0 win against Villarreal in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final was not a vintage Arsenal performance. It was not full of the one-touch intricate football which has been so pleasing on the eye during the 10-year reign of manager Arsene Wenger.

But it said so much about the emerging Arsenal, the one which will be on show in their new stadium next season and which almost certainly will deliver a much sterner Premiership challenge than the transitional team of the past 12 months.

Wenger's new side are beginning to grow. They are starting to look comfortable and more powerful in their youthful skin.

Kolo Toure, who scored the all-important goal against Villarreal, is beginning to look like a world-class central defender. So is Philippe Senderos while Emmanuel Eboue powers down the flanks and Mathieu Flamini has been one of the finds of the season in his conversion from midfield to left back.

So much so that again people are beginning to marvel about the meanness of the Arsenal defence, for the first time perhaps since Tony Adams and Steve Bould ran the show.

Part of that is down to Gilberto, the Brazilian with South American steel as well as style but discipline too. While Gilberto is happy to hold and protect his back four, the route is open for Cesc Fabregas to foray deep into opponents' territory.

No longer, you might have noticed, is there mention of Patrick Vieira being missed at Highbury. Not with Fabregas maturing by the week. Suffice it to say that the teenager looked entirely comfortable contesting midfield space against Argentinian Riquelme and that is saying something.

Everything about Arsenal, even on a night when the famous rhythm was in short supply, said here was a side destined to meet Barcelona or AC Milan in world football's most prestigious club final on May 17 at the Stade de France.

Yet the main reason why Villarreal remained cautious about their own chances despite having limited Arsenal to the slenderest of leads was Henry.

Not because of the astute pass which set up Alexandre Hleb for the opening which led to Toure's goal, although it was every bit as brilliant as the one conjured up for Barcelona's Ludovic Giuly by Ronaldinho the night before. Nor the assurance Henry brings to every Arsenal performance.

More the fact that the return leg in Spain next Tuesday is made for Henry.

Villarreal must loosen their defensive instincts. They need to score twice and while they have proved their quality in dispatching Everton and Manchester United and Inter Milan they have not been prolific scorers. Only three goals in winning their group to qualify for the knockout phase.

They cannot defend as deep as they did at Highbury. And no striker in the world exploits the space which will surely result quite as devastatingly as Henry.

It is why I take Arsenal to reach their first Champions League final next Tuesday and why Henry will return to his home town city of Paris on May 17.

Even if they became champions of Europe, however, it does not mean Henry would stay with Arsenal. Indeed, he might reason that his mission was complete, the perfect time to leave having handed the Gunners the prize they crave the most.

If he did could anyone possibly say he owed them anything?

[SGS]

I don't mean to take over from DVT but I just saw this, I never knew Arsenal were moving, but then again I know fuck all when it comes to football.

So are they now owned by Arabs????

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14050-1884233,00.html

They have had their name on the new stadium since it started going up a long time ago.

[xcite-tv]

HENRY OWES GUNNERS NOTHING



Told you he wants to go to Liverpool... you wouldnt listen

[NumptyNuts]

Told you he wants to go to Liverpool... you wouldnt listen

Tell you what - hes does not owe us anything :-)

No one wants to go to liverpool, no one in the right mind wants to live in Mersyside ;-)

[gav]

Just an after thought, thinking of all the grief our fans give the spurs yids this is kind of comical :)

Think that will be an end to the "where's your foreskins gone" chant from the Gooners fans?

[NumptyNuts]

Think that will be an end to the "where's your foreskins gone" chant from the Gooners fans?


No not a chance - you will see on saturday.

:)

[xcite-tv]

Tell you what - hes does not owe us anything :-)

No one wants to go to liverpool, no one in the right mind wants to live in Mersyside ;-)


If i remember you live in or nr Hull ??? :)

[NumptyNuts]

If i remember you live in or nr Hull ??? :)


No Hull is a safe enough distance from me mate, I live in a nice little market town but I hear ya - Hull is a dive but its not a patch on Mersyside, when I went to Anfield I thought I was visiting a 3rd world britain. :(

[xcite-tv]

No Hull is a safe enough distance from me mate, I live in a nice little market town but I hear ya - Hull is a dive but its not a patch on Mersyside, when I went to Anfield I thought I was visiting a 3rd world britain. :(


I know i am defending my place of birth and i know parts of Liverpool are dire
But Anfield is actually quite posh compared with where i came from...


but you really need to go to some parts of Manchester, Birmingham,London, Southampton, Newcastle etc etc etc

Most of Britain is like the 3rd world. Liverpool just has a sense of humour about it

[NumptyNuts]

Birmingham, being once never again thought I had left the UK when I pulle doff the motorway it was the pits! Manachester again bar the new fancy areas its a dump.

London i moved away need I say more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38356000/jpg/_38356825_scouser150.jpg

[xcite-tv]

Birmingham, being once never again thought I had left the UK when I pulle doff the motorway it was the pits! Manachester again bar the new fancy areas its a dump.

London i moved away need I say more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38356000/jpg/_38356825_scouser150.jpg


Where did you get that pic of me dad and brother ???

[NumptyNuts]

I doubt very much you look like that - ;-)