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Yesterday, @Arsenal announced redundancies in non-playing staff due to ongoing revenue pressures linked to Covid-19 and have been receiving a lot of flak from fans and media. Sports=Business is my favourite topic, hence, a contrarian view 🙃 (1/n)
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Of course, this is a deviation from the #Classenal legacy that Wenger built and I am not a fan of this either, but is the backlash too much? Are there parallels we can draw to professionally run organizations in this move? I think so at least. (2/n)
It is relatively simple to compare the large salaries of players and consider a pay-cut, sell them or not pay super agents to avoid this. But, for an organization of this size, it is hard to believe that the absolute $$ involved matter. (3/n)
