Fuck yes.
Leader and best player of our British contingent signs to follow his minions.
Has single handedly restored all true gooners faith in football
Money
Position
Little bit both
Other (pls specify)
Fuck yes.
Leader and best player of our British contingent signs to follow his minions.
Has single handedly restored all true gooners faith in football
Joke. Theo thinks he's worth more than JW. And he's got it.
At least we know it was just about money as was previously suspected.
"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
Well he's our greedy little bastard now so we just have to hope he does the biz. No more Swansea performances allowed.
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Always knew u rated and held Sir Jack in very high regards, tbh.Originally Posted by Cripps
That post is similar to one of Theo's crosses, high and far off its mark.
Just read on BBC website the news
He gets 100k which what he wanted and the deal is for 3 and a half years when we wanted 5.
Tell me who came out on top?
Feck it its over now, whether we like it or not.
Now go out and pay the big feckers release clause if you have the balls, because that is a guy that cam contribute all over the pitch and would not be a waste of money because any incoming manager would be over the moon to inheri him
I do rate Sir Jack but til he gets an end product, Theo is more important. Good to see Theo beingnpaidnwhat he's worth when you consider Jack got 80k a week for being injured
The club have done what's necessary to secure one of our best players. He's our top goal scorer and we don't need the uncertainty hanging over our heads all season. It's good for the squad because of what he brings to the team and morale, yet we've got people still complaining about the wages he's on. It's irrelevant and all this nonsense about what he's worth is crazy because our wage structure isn't based on performance related or based merit. We have a squad full of overpaid players that haven't done anything to warrant a huge wage increase because we have this silly 'socialist' model. As said before, if we cleared out most of the dross, we could afford to pay our top performers extra and this idea of a fair wage structure is suicide. They were discussing this last week on Sunday Supplement and it's something that has been repeated on here several times.
I hope the club have turned a corner with this deal. We have to abandon this socialist model because we will keep cutting our nose to spite our face. Once JW, Ox or whoever else hits their potential and other clubs start taking note, we'd end up losing them during contract negotiations because we'd be reluctant to push pass the £100k mark. As said, JW is already close to that with £85k. A 5 year deal worth £90k a week won't be accepted and would be a slap in the face if we even we even thought of offering that for his next contract. The club needs to think this model through because it's badly flawed and can't believe we have professionals signing off on this model. It's madness. But I hope they have come to their senses. Even if that's not the case, it would have been ludicrous to let Theo Walcott leave on a free transfer anyway. That's when you know they have truly lost the plot. It just doesn't make £ or sense.
If we hadn't sold almost all our quality, the hype over Theo would have at the very least been far less. That there was this angst over Walcott demonstrates how clearly how we have fallen in terms of talent and quality. PnG is right - our pay structure has led us to this situation. It is just a massive massive pity that it has come that far that it is being broken for a player of the quality of Walcott.
Had the Club taken this type of ation three years ago, had Walcott departed today, it would barely have registered and he would be a footnote in the Club's history. That nan has a lot to prove now he has that contract.
£100k per-week for a man who nutmeg himself. Wumger
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