Diaby needs ANOTHER surgery

[Nayan]

It's not quite the same as a 'normal' employee who would lose his house if he lost his job.
Footballers are set for life.
Not that I think we should fail to honour his contract, but the comparisons with a normal job only stretch so far.

he is a (well) paid employee, not a slave, consultant or freelancer. Apart from the fact that footballer's earn a lot of money for doing something it is *exactly* that - a normal job.
As such, if someone is injured doing their job its a bit daft calling them a prick and then claiming they should be euthanised on the grounds that, had they been a horse they wouldve been shot by now.

Not least because if they had indeed been a horse, they wouldn't have got the job in the first place.

[Penguin]

Forget loyalty in football, it's a problem with people in general when I hear this sort of talk. No morals.

This isn't a case of incompetence. If a British Gas worked badly injured his hand whilst fixing a boiler, there is no way the company could terminate his contract whilst he's getting treatment for his hand. As Steve French said, it's breaking the law. No player would want to play for a club that treats its players like that.

Being bitter over Cesc, RVP and whoever else is irrelevant. As for the cutthroat business argument, cutting our losses...you can't use that argument when it suits you. If the club decide to raise ticket prices again and go to corporate with the way we're run, you'd probably be arguing for a more compassionate club connected to the fans and with a love for the sport instead of corporate sponsors.

I don't know why you guys are going on about terminating his contract. I didn't say that, and in fact nobody even mentioned it in this thread before you did
I don't even think we can terminate it unless we buy out his contract, which would be pointless because we'd end up paying for it anyway.

The only thing that was actually suggested was selling him, and I don't see much morally wrong with that. We wouldn't be selling him because he got injured playing for us, we'd be selling him because he has always been far too injury prone and inconsistent on the pitch in his 9 years at this club, and because he isn't worth £60k per week. I didn't hear any cries of outrage when Chamakh and Gervinho were sold this summer. Wenger was actually applauded by the majority of our fans for his newfound ruthlessness.

Oh, and I'm not bitter at all. I was just using that example to make my point about loyalty. It works both ways, we aren't a charity to nurse injured little kids back to health and release them to the Barcas and Bayerns to win trophies.

[GP]

Sell him to who?

Who would buy him?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Sell him to who?

Who would buy him?

And now we have come full circle to the glue factory.

[The Ogg Monster]

He would never get into this midfield anyway.

Stick a fork up his bum, he's done.

[Penguin]

Who would buy him?

• A decent CL club like Roma who would fancy a punt
• Mid-table to Europa league premier league clubs
• A good French side, where he is still quite highly rated
• Maybe even one of the 'big' clubs like Milan

As long as we have a realistic transfer value it wont be difficult to sell him. Obviously nobody would touch him at £20m, but at around £10m he starts looking like an attractive target. We even managed to flog Chamakh and Gervinho this summer... we'll have no problem selling Diaby who actually is potentially a beast of a CM.

[Power n Glory]

I don't know why you guys are going on about terminating his contract. I didn't say that, and in fact nobody even mentioned it in this thread before you did
I don't even think we can terminate it unless we buy out his contract, which would be pointless because we'd end up paying for it anyway.

The only thing that was actually suggested was selling him, and I don't see much morally wrong with that. We wouldn't be selling him because he got injured playing for us, we'd be selling him because he has always been far too injury prone and inconsistent on the pitch in his 9 years at this club, and because he isn't worth £60k per week. I didn't hear any cries of outrage when Chamakh and Gervinho were sold this summer. Wenger was actually applauded by the majority of our fans for his newfound ruthlessness.

Oh, and I'm not bitter at all. I was just using that example to make my point about loyalty. It works both ways, we aren't a charity to nurse injured little kids back to health and release them to the Barcas and Bayerns to win trophies.

Yep, loyalty works both ways. Nail on the head.

[Nayan]

Most people's opinion (ie hatred) of Diaby seems to stem from seeing him break down repeatedly and assuming he then chuckles to himself, collects his pay packet and heads for the nearest nightclub/ps4/Nando's.

If they have some in the know insight to back this up then fair enough - Clearly he doesn't bother spending any time with physios, fitness coaches or indeed counsellors regarding his perennial disappointment about his doomed career.

If however, those folks have nothing other than matchday banter and a mouthful of pie they are they are full of shit.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I do feel it's a little unnecessary the amount of abuse he seems to get, it's incredibly frustrating how he is injured all the time but it's the club who choose to retain his services....I wish he would get fit as i really rate him as a player but it just isn't going to happen.

[Nayan]

Ive been very frustrated with him but Ive come to realise I dont have enough insight to be able to slate him as someone taking the piss. If you give him the benefit of the doubt then its actually quite classy that Arsenal see loyalty as a two way street.