A breakdown of Arsenal's money schemes

[mastermind84]

Let's clear this up, noone would have paid Bendtner/Denilson and co what we pay them...that's one of the big reasons we can't get rid of them and have to ship them out on loan, subsidising their salaries to do so.

you are saying this with hindsight, my statement is pertaining to the year 2009 when those two players signed their contract raises. In 2009, those players would have got nice raises elsewhere. You have to remember that Denilson played pretty good at 21 years old for a side that made the CL semifinal and was a top 4 side in hte premiership. Bendtner was rumored to have interested clubs like Bayern, Inter, and Milan before we gave him the new contract.

We've been paying our young unproven players far too much for far too long and the reasons these kids join us?
A. A big pay day at a young age
B. Opportunities of first team football no other team gives them a hope of getting

Do you really think these kids would sign for us if other big clubs offered them the same opportunities? The few that do make it move on as soon as it suits to those big clubs they never offered them the package we offered them at a young age.

now this is an entirely different conversation, the club did (maybe still does) offer bigger wages to guys who are teenagers. I remember Traore was all set to move to Benfica, but Benfica wanted to only offer half the wages Arsenal were paying him. I think he was on 624,000 a year, and Benfica wanted to offer 300,000 a year. Ramsey is another example of that.