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Originally Posted by Damien
The £55 million has to cover wages as well as the fee and is only that high because of the sales of Nasri and Fabregas. You take out players going out and Arsenal break even. I agree it would great if the owner paid off the stadium and freed up that money. That would be great. It would instantly negate the need for CL football to break even, it would help first team investment.
The finances effectively mean that in the short term Wenger is still dependent on shipping players out in order to buy - unless we take on more debt or the owner finances it. Long term our commercial deals are under performing because long-term deals were signed almost a decade ago so when they expire that will go drastically up, additionally once the stadium is paid off then all the money also goes into the club. So it's looking rosy long term but in the short term Wenger doesn't have money to invest in the team beyond that raised by outgoing tranfers.
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Or train more English players, that would help!
I do not think that Arsenal will take on more debt, but they might get better sponsorship deals!