The latest Deloitte football report has been released and it is not a good read if you are an Arsenal fan for several reasons.
First and foremost this is the top ten football clubs globally in terms of how much money they made last year.
1. Real Madrid – €831.4m
2. Manchester City €825.9m
3. Paris Saint-Germain €801.8m
4. FC Barcelona €800.1m
5. Manchester United €745.8m
6. Bayern Munich €744.0m
7. Liverpool €682.9m
8. Tottenham Hotspur €631.5m
9. Chelsea €589.4m
10. Arsenal €532.6m
So, as you can see, we barely made the top ten and are behind both Chelsea and Tottenham. That said, last year was a 23% increase which was better than both Spurs and Chelsea but the fact that we cannot make more than both those clubs is depressing.
So from a financial perspective, it is not as bad as it appears if we are increasing our income faster than our local rivals but that is not what makes the report a bad read.
What Deloitte has also done is include other metrics about ethnic minority and female inclusion on the board.
Chelsea has 18% ethnic minority and 9% female representation on the board.
Tottenham has 25% ethnic minority and 25% female representation on the board.
Arsenal has ZERO in both categories. That is not good.
This is not about being woke or anything like that but when you have a squad full of ethnic minorities and operate a successful women’s team, surely you must have some sort of representation on the board that reflects your makeup on the pitch.
We must do better than both Chelsea and Tottenham in this regard and the sooner the better.
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Go to Africa, Whites and Latinas are then ethnic minorities and usually have zero ownershipof local football teams, what’s your point?….stupid woke logic!
“surely you must have some sort of representation on the board that reflects your makeup on the pitch”………why? Making decisions based on race like you are suggesting here is just racist, you are literally advocating for different treatment based purely on race and/or gender….not on merit.
Not being funny but I’m completely lost on what this article is about .
It went from what teams made into what race our players are .
Maybe I’m ready for bed and did not get the gist of the Article, strange one for me ( I read it 4 times )
Ok just reread
So we have only white and males on the board .
So bloody what , all my years posting on here I’ve never read such squit .
Personally I never have ago at Article writers maybe 3 in my time on here ,but Dam…..
You mentioned woke for the sake of mentioning woke because that is where you obviously wanted to go to .
I detest the illiberal philosophy behind woke and though ideally I would support much diversity at all levels of society, I agree with the point made by PJ-SA above.
It is an article concocted to fill a space only IMO and has no actual point at all, at least on the matter of “Zero in both catagories”!
On the financial income of various clubs and us, it IS of interest however and our annual turnover is both a disappointment and something of a surprise, though.
And we dont need to worry about woke at all. Who is giving these articles space?
Arsenal’s popularity plunged because they haven’t won any major trophy in the last two decades, but I was surprised Spuds earned more than Arsenal
I think Spuds benefited from having Kane as their previous poster boy. This is why Rice’s signing was important to Arsenal, from commercial standpoint
If this makes bad reading for the club, wait until we delve into the money we lost on transfer dealings in the last decade (Pat or David??).
As for needing ethnic minorities and female representation because it will make us look better – I echo the thoughts above.
But I thought we had ethnic minority within the club anyway and I assume Mrs Kronkie would have a say in what Mr Kronkie spends their money on….. at least that’s how my wife and I have worked for over 50 years!!
A very contentious issue..
Are arsenal discriminate against minorities
Are they just appointmenting the best person for the role at the time?
Just asking the question
The question we should be asking is has SK appointmented in his other organisation
If not then there could well be a problem
My understanding in life is you appointment the best person for the job at the time and sex, religion, colour, age should not enter in to that equation
It does, it has and alway will but before making accusation you should look beyond the surface
Ps
I am a firm believer that there should be no room room ageism, sexism , racism , discrimination ect in life let alone in football but there is and some people still have a long way to go as human beings
To acknowledge that.
Onwards and upwards
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I must admit i’m dissapointed at our annual income last year, way too low for a club of our size and what we managed to achieve. I guess that’s got to do with the fact that we were’nt in the CL, at least a year prior.
I don’t know why my comment is in response to what you said Vamos? Was meant to be a stand alone comment.
Interesting (but not in a good way) article. As a response to PJ-SA “locals usually have the majority ownership of local football teams” this is true here (Southern Africa) and I much agree with you, where we slightly diverge in opinions is the gender aspect. What is the harm in making shareholders meet gender inclusive? If you have the requisite poker chips to play then go right ahead regardless of your gender (which hasn’t always been the case). Look up Royal AM of South Africa for a seemingly first case study of female inclusion (circa 2022 btw) in football clu ownership locally
This article highlights the club’s fundamental problem of discriminating against ethnic or minority groups. I thought it was only in the women team but now its been confirmed that the problem is much bigger then originally thought. No wonder the club is having a lack of onfield success.
The club needs to get its house in order before dreaming about any major silverware.
Another comment with you pushing your “Arsenal are racist” agenda.
I have no idea about Chelsea’s and Tottenham’s Boards but ARSENAL have just four Board Members – Stan, Josh, Tim Lewis and Lord Harris.
I’ve just checked Spurs Board (one woman, no non-white members) and Chelsea have a long long list of members so have much more chance of diversity.
None out of FOUR (of which 2 are the owners) is hardly evidence of racism. Go find another site to spout your consiracy theories please.
@Jon
I did reply to your comment yesterday on the Benzema Respond… – article but for some reason it got censored.
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Er, where is my post? How can you tell somebody to not be political on here, when you put up a POLITICAL ARTICLE?
Not a political article at all. It is a report on Arsenal
Talking about woke and discrimination is political.
I think you will find that was In the comments. Not in the article
The comments are in the article.
You people do understand that last year we didn’t have CL football and that in itself is a huge loss of up to 100m depending on performance.
And yet fans decried top four under a certs in manager Ackshay.