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Wenger fears billionaire club owners' impact

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:13 PM EST
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Arsène Wenger fears Arsenal will be left "dead" as a competitive force if super-rich owners continue to buy Premiership clubs. Investors backed by a Dubai-based billionaire are expected to complete a takeover of Liverpool next month, joining Chelsea's Roman Abramovich in the ranks of the league's mega-wealthy, and Wenger believes an extension of that process would have dire implications for his team.

Arsenal moved to a 60,000-seat stadium this season with a view to boost their financial muscle, but Wenger conceded ahead of tonight's game at Wigan that they would be left behind if more rivals pour money into transfers and wages without care for the annual balance sheet, backed by wealthy owners or investors.

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Mike B

I agree completely. Buying out clubs is going to ruin football forever, but I guess it's the way it's gonna go, and all we can do is wait for every club to be bought out.

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Reply#1 - Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:49 AM EST
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Spuds Stuff

It's a shame that money is ruining the game. It's like that in a lot of sports though. Maybe there needs to be some salary caps or something like that to try and "even" the competition up a bit.

I feel for some of the clubs because as it stands at the moment there is very few clubs who can realistically win a premiership. The rest just make up the numbers.

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