How Wenger Rebuilt His Team - And Made £25m For The Club Too

• zocoss

  15 May 10, 01:45

  Arsenal Analysis: How Arsene Wenger Rebuilt His Team - And Made £25m For The Club Too

  Bargain hunter has made a £4 million-a-season profit since last title

  

  Since the 'Invincibles' swept all before them in 2003-04, Arsene Wenger has generally wheeled and dealed in the cheaper end of the transfer market.
  
  His consistency in getting Arsenal value for money has been astonishing.
  
  From the 2004-05 season to date, the club have a remarkable net spend of minus £24.7 million, providing a profit of just over £4m a year.
  
  This is the lowest spend of players purchased minus players sold of all 20 clubs in this season's Premier League.
  
  Goal.com UK analyses the transfer dealings of the club for every season since the summer of 2004.

  
  

  2004-05

  

  In:
  Emmanuel Eboue (£1m), Mathieu Flamini (£1m), Manuel Almunia (£2.5m)
  
  Out:
  Chris Wright (Free), Edu (Free), Dominic Shimmin (£300,000), Matthew Hislop (Free), Rami Shaaban (Free), John Spicer (Free), Tomas Danilevicius (Free)
  Sylvain Wiltord (Free), Francis Jeffers (£2.6m), Igor Stepanovs (Free), Nwankwo Kanu (Free), Ray Parlour (Free), Martin Keown (Free)
  
  Ins: £4.5m
  Outs: £2.9m
  Net: £1.6m
  
  
  2005-06

  

  In: 
  Mart Poom (Free), Theo Walcott (£9.1m), Emmanuel Adebayor (£7m), Abou Diaby (£2m), Aliaksandr Hleb (£11.2m), Armand Traore (£250,000), Vito Mannone (£350,000), Nicklas Bendtner (£200,000)
  
  Out:
  Robert Pires (Free), Mark Howard (Free), Quincy Owusu-Abieye (£1.5m), David Bentley (£10m), Patrick Cregg (Free), Frankie Simek (Free), Sebastian Svard (Free), Patrick Vieira (£13.7m), Jermaine Pennant (£4.67m), Stephen O’Donnell (Free), Daniel Karbassiyoon (Free), Stuart Taylor (£250,000), Dean McDonald (Free), Adam Birchall (Free), Olafur Ingi Skulason (Free)
  
  Ins: £36.9m
  Outs: £30.12m
  Net: £6.78m
  
  
  2006-07

  

  In:
  Tomas Rosicky (£6.8m), Nacer Barazite (Free), Denilson (£3.4m), William Gallas (swap), Alexandre Song (£1m), Fran Merida (Free), Joe O’Cearuill (Free)
  
  Out:
  Peggy Lodanko (Free), Arturo Lupoli (Free), Thierry Henry (£16.1m)
  Jeremie Aliadiere (£2m), Mart Poom (Free), Fabrice Muamba (£2m)
  Sebastian Larsson (£1m), Lauren (£500,000), Anthony Stokes (£2m)
  Ashley Cole (£5m), Pascal Cygan (£2m), Sol Campbell (Free), Ryan Smith (£300,000), Graham Stack (Free), Michael Jordan (Free)
  
  Ins: £131.2m
  Outs: £30.9m
  Net: -£19.7m
  
  
  2007-08

  

  In:
  Eduardo (£7.5m), Luke Freeman (£200,000), Lassana Diarra (£4m), Bakari Sagna (£6m), Lukasz Fabianski (£2m)
  
  Out:
  Jens Lehmann (Free), Lassana Diarra (£5.5m), Matthew Connolly (£1m)
  Joe O’Cearuill (Free), Ryan Garry (Free), Jose Reyes (£8.1m), Fredrik Ljungberg (£3m)
  
  Ins: £19.7m
  Outs: £17.6m
  Net: £2.1m
  
  
  2008-09

  

  In:
  Samir Nasri (£12.5m), Amaury Bischoff (Undisclosed), Mickael Silvestre (£750,000), Andrey Arshavin (£16.5m), Aaron Ramsey (£5m)
  
  Out:
  Mathieu Flamini (Free), Aleksandr Hleb (£11.8m), Gilberto Silva (£1m)
  Justin Hoyte (£3m)
  
  Ins: £34.75
  Outs: £15.8m
  Net: £-18.95
  
  
  2009-10

  

  In: 
  Thomas Vermaelen (£10m), Samuel Galindo (Undisclosed), Sol Campbell (Free)
  
  Out: 
  Emmanuel Adebayor (£25m), Rene Steer (Free), Amaury Bischoff (released)
  Rui Fonte (Free), Kolo Toure (£16m)
  
  Ins: £10m
  Outs: £41m
  Net: -£31m

   

  Total Ins 2004-2010: £110.25m
  Total Outs 2004-2010: £138.32m
  Net: £-28.07m

• Just_do_it_lah

  15 May 10, 02:20

  Well,  every footballs fans will surely agree that Wenger is the Master of Transfers deals...

  Getting Cheap .. matured them.. sell and make a huge PROFITs !!!  ( and also profited with EPLs & FA Cups they won ).

  Patrick Vieira

  1996-2005, bought for 3.5million pounds, from AC Milan,

  Sold in 2005 (july) to Juventus for 18 million pounds...

  Nicolas Anelka

  (Feb 1997)  Paris Saint-Germain, for just 500,000 pounds

  (June 1999) transferred to Real Madrid for 22.3 million pounds.

  Thierry Henry

  Bought from Juventus for 10 million pounds in 1999 (Aug)

  Sold to Barcelona for 24  millions Euros in 2007 (June)

  Of course not all transfers are profitable  but Mr Wenger has done a Great Job !!

• sand king

  15 May 10, 07:44

  C. Ronaldo. Bought for 12million sold for 80 million. That's the only profitable play MU has ever had?

   

  
  
  Wenger always gets a bargin for his players lol

• Rooney9

  15 May 10, 07:46

  Originally posted by sand king:

  C. Ronaldo. Bought for 12million sold for 80 million. That's the only profitable play MU has ever had?

   

  
  
  Wenger always gets a bargin for his players lol

  but sadly how much of the profit is used to buy players and to service united huge interest payment debts?

• the Bear

  15 May 10, 07:58

  you see that the profits came mostly in the last part where they chop the radish of the club which bought kolo toure and adebayor...

• Rooney9

  15 May 10, 08:01

  Let's see how much will he sell Fabregas to Barcelona? at least 40m or more? that is 40m profit, as Fabregas was picked up as a youngster in 2003 from Barcelona for free.

• dukedracula

  15 May 10, 10:23

  if the epl were a meat market, wenger would be king....

• potstop163

  15 May 10, 16:22

  earn money n hav a sharp eye for prospects is good...too bad he is gg 5 ? 6?without any trophy at all.

• Rooney9

  15 May 10, 16:26

  He has not won a trophy for 5 years already, but he is an exception rather than the norm. because he uplifted arsenal from a boring football team to a team that plays passing football. He also brings dieting to the club and to england, where dieting were unheard of in the 90s.

• Y_Shun

  15 May 10, 16:44

  Another one to be sold will be Fabregas...

• CannyOng

  15 May 10, 23:01

  Originally posted by sand king:

  C. Ronaldo. Bought for 12million sold for 80 million. That's the only profitable play MU has ever had?

   

  
  
  Wenger always gets a bargin for his players lol

  
  IMO.. C.Ronaldo is untouchable.. Even at 80 million pound, Real Madrid thinking they are getting a bargain. His loss for Man U is for us to see. Without C.Ronaldo. Man U loss the edge in EPL and CL.

  C.Ronaldo now keep banging in goals for Real.M

• mrwonderful

  16 May 10, 00:09

  he running a soccer club or a trading house?

  maybe arsenal fans are satisfied as long as the club is not in debt, trophies are just a bonus. haha!!

• CKeer

  16 May 10, 14:58

  Originally posted by CannyOng:

  
  IMO.. C.Ronaldo is untouchable.. Even at 80 million pound, Real Madrid thinking they are getting a bargain. His loss for Man U is for us to see. Without C.Ronaldo. Man U loss the edge in EPL and CL.

  C.Ronaldo now keep banging in goals for Real.M

  I think u got it wrong. Don't you know that tackles are illegal in La Liga? Ronaldo doesnt even use any skill to get past defenders - he just sprint past in the traditional push and run dribbling.

  And the fact is Real Madrid is still 2nd best with all the buys, behind Barca who sold a proven goal poacher in Eto'o for a more expensive Berbatov - Ibra. .

  United, on the other hand, manages to stay just 1 point behind after his depature.