Word: arsene
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...helped the club double its annual revenues to $180 million. The problem, of course, is that building a new stadium takes massive capital investment, and Arsenal recently admitted that the annual interest payment on its new stadium is $48 million - meaning the club's competitiveness may hinge on coach Arsene Wenger's genius for buying unproven but talented youngsters and turning them into world-class players who can be sold for a huge profit after a few years' service...
...split on the issue. Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, told a fan magazine, "It's certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that." Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, considers such ideas retrograde. He has said foreign quotas would "kill the Premier League" because it would impede the clubs' ability to find and field the best players possible. He also rejects the notion that quotas would safeguard local talent. "It won't protect the best...
...last year in a high-profile deal by Arsenal in England's Premiership, the 22-year-old midfielder saw little action and suffered the ignominy of relegation to the club's reserves. He reportedly has been released by Arsenal. His redemption, then, was sweet (especially because Arsenal's coach, Arsene Wenger, was in the stands watching) as he scored Japan's first World Cup goal, against Belgium. "Yes, yes, say that, I was hungry," he gloats, grinning broadly...
...Although sorry to see their favorite players go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995-96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. He's betting Inamoto?who has "good technique and good vision"?will be that player...