Is Wenger stale or is it us?

[Globalgunner]

Wait, sorry? We can compete with £190K per week? Are you serious?

It's all relative. You pay one star that much, the other stars want that much. We pay RVP 190K p.w. then what does Wilshere deserve in a year or two? Every star player we sign or becomes one from then on will demand that much. Nor can you have good morale at a club where a left back or even someone on the bench earns like a tenth of the star player. The wage structure exists primarily to ensure that wages are relative and not too biased in a particular direction. Shonky payment structures result in dressing room unrest.

FAIL. This egalitarian structure you are proposing does nor exist in any other walk of life. Messi probably earns twice what Iniesta does at Barca, at RM the only player who earns close to what CR9 does is propably Cassilas. If you earned 80% of what your company MD does and he works twice as hard as you carrying home files to pore over each night, would YOU want to be the MD?. We have clearly seen that money motivates players, if you want to earn the same as RVP, then produce like RVP. What we have instead is Djourou on 50k and Denilson on the same and Rvp on 75k. That does not make for harmony , that causes stagnation, which is what we see at Arsenal. players better than denilson Djourou, Bendtner et al are earning 25k pw in other Prem clubs and thanking their bloody stars for it.

This is all part of the Wenger calamity. He wants to do things differently just for its own sake, and even when we all see that it doesnt work. He stubbornly refuses to change it. This is what Gazidis was supposedly supposed to change but instead he just does what Wenger wants.. Wilshire is not a star, yet he has done nothing to merit such accolades and he is just starting out in the game and is not a mercurial talent like Messi, Rooney or Ronaldo. He should be on 25k pw. If you pay him 75kpw now at 20 yrs what will he be on by the time he is 27 and maybe still has not progressed as a player like the aforementioned Djopoo and denilshyte.