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Sally is wife of Danny Fiszman (owned the Star Diamonds Group, non-executive director in Arsenal Football Club)
Sorry for my poor english translation. The Director General of Arsenal, Danny Fiszman has defended the rise in ticket prices club after a freeze these prices for four years. This increase is assessed at £ 275 more than the other Premier League clubs, but Fiszman insists that tickets have their true value: "There are often comparisons made and we seem to ask much, but it's not for nothing. Our season tickets for the matches inlcuent Champions League, what other clubs are paying extra." "We kept the same prices for four years but there is a substancial inflation in football. Rather than adopting similar prices as long as possible and then raise an enormous sum, we prefer to increase gradually, a stably. " --- Club Officers The parent company Arsenal Holdings is a public limited company. However, the status of Arsenal is significantly different from that of other football clubs. Only 62,000 shares were distributed to Arsenal and they are not on a public trading market as the FTSE or AIM, however, they are occasionally traded on OFEX, an expert on stock exchanges. In December 2005, the value of Arsenal is estimated at 290 million pounds, and the club has obtained a tax on profits of 19.3 million pounds in fiscal year 2004-05 7. The club's biggest shareholders are a diamond merchant in London, Danny Fiszman and Nina Bracewell-Smith (a descendant of the marriage of a former chairman Sir Bracewell Smith), who respectively hold 25.2% and 15.9% of issued shares. The Vice-Chairman David Dein holds 14.6% in while club chairman Peter Hill-Wood owns less than 1%. The board of Arsenal holds so the majority of the shares, but recently with the advent of media in sport, various external organizations have invested in Arsenal. Among them we find the entertainment company Granada Ventures (ITV plc) (9.9%) and hedge fund Lansdowne Partners (2.7%). Club budget Arsenal have never had the reputation of a very rich club like its main rival Manchester United. Its turnover was 138.4 million pounds in 2005. Player Management The club does not share either the pranks on expenses and resales on the players. The workforce management since Arsene Wenger era shows that the club has managed to make gains on certain players so impressive. The most famous example is that of Nicolas Anelka, bought 6 million francs (-1 million), sold to Real Madrid over 200 million francs (> 30 million). Earnings In 2005, the club made a profit before taxation of 19.3 million pounds compared with only 10.6 million pounds in 2004. Support the development and marketing methods abroad and particularly in Asian countries are the main reasons for this success. By comparison, revenue from television rights amounted to more than 48.6 million pounds, while revenues for the 27 matches played at Highbury represent a sum of 37.4 million pounds. The arrival of the next season at Arsenal Emirates Stadium will increase its profits significantly, the total possible influx of the new stadium will be 22,500 more people! Expenditure Like any football club, the largest costs relate to salaries of the team and staff. This expenditure amounts to more than 66 million pounds (then in 2004 the figure was 69.9 million pounds, but the club has suffered the departure of several key players like Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira). In October 2005, the highest paid player of the club was Thierry Henry who earned more than 109 000 per week (excluding advertising contracts).
--- Fiszman, "Wenger can spend $ 40 million" Some people doubt that Arsenal can spend big for a single signature. This is not the taste of Danny Fiszman, who said that Wenger could, if he wanted to spend 40 million euros for a player before September 1, midnight. Fiszman supports Wenger's transfer policy, and said that the French had the support of the board for any target, no matter the price. "If he (Wenger) told us" I want this guy and he is worth 40 million euros, I can buy it? "The answer is yes. Yes absolutely. We support him totally. It is the only one to decide whether ' must be spent or not. It will never be our decision. " "If Arsene is the good player he buy that player, but for now it has not found." "We want to win and win badly, but Arsene believes in how he built the team." "If we were to buy big names, it would be relatively mature players who must be integrated into the way Arsene plays." "They do not know our style and it can also have an impact on young people who are already impregnated." "It's time for us to win something but one club can win the Champions League and only one club can win the Premier League." There are only 4 days, counting today, Wenger before finding the player that he likes ... -> Created for Sally Fiszman |
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