You only need to look at our squad right now and look at who we actually managed to sell (Perez I think) to realise selling these guys is hard, noone wants them or two play their overinflated wages, for years we've struggled to get rid of players, that's why the likes of Jenkinson, Perez, Campbell keep being sent on loan. Clubs have wised up and realise players from Arsenal aren't worth paying decent money for.Originally Posted by Unai Tea
Jenkinson.
How bloody long is the contract we gave him? Can't believe it just hasn't be terminated. Even he must feel slightly embarrassed to call himself an Arsenal player.
Seems to me we're going to let Welbeck and Ramsey walk away for free next summer, should have sold both of them for whatever we could get, just don't get why we held onto them, we've barely had anything to spend this summer and yet rather than sell two players who have a year left we keep hold of them, where is the logic in that?
Welbeck has no future here anyway, but we should have at least tried to get something for him, more money down the pan and with an owner not interested in investing any money it's mad doubley worse.
Chambers, Iwobi and Xhaka , didn't we just give all three new contracts recently? Just let their contacts run down and get rid of them. I hadn't realised Jenkinson was still an Arsenal player. He was rubbish when we bought him a 100 years ago, why is he still on our books?
Yeah we gave them new long term contracts, we'll never get rid now, I'd have sold them for whatever we could have got in the summer. Yeah Jenkinson was plucked out of obscurity at Charlton and now noone wants him because he was never any good in the 1st place.
Ramsey, Wilshere, Jenkinson, Ox, Gibbs all signed up on long contracts in 2012, now all gone except for one guy who will leave on a free next summer and another who we can't get rid of for love no money. Arsenals British revolution worked out wellJenkinson.
How bloody long is the contract we gave him? Can't believe it just hasn't be terminated. Even he must feel slightly embarrassed to call himself an Arsenal player.
Wilshere and Ox still had potential then, the others should have been sold.Ramsey, Wilshere, Jenkinson, Ox, Gibbs all signed up on long contracts in 2012, now all gone except for one guy who will leave on a free next summer and another who we can't get rid of for love no money. Arsenals British revolution worked out well
The only one of those I would have kept is Ox to be honest, very talented and had something about him, shame for him about his injury. You could make an argument for Wilshere, but since then he's not improved at all, has sown poor discipline off the pitch and is always injured, what a bunch!
We also had Walnut of course, signed him up not long after that.
Six years ago Wilshere was only a baby, so we hoped he would come good.The only one of those I would have kept is Ox to be honest, very talented and had something about him, shame for him about his injury. You could make an argument for Wilshere, but since then he's not improved at all, has sown poor discipline off the pitch and is always injured, what a bunch!
We also had Walnut of course, signed him up not long after that.
We sold 7 backups for nearly £100m in 2017.
Chambers and Iwobi are young and have potential, Xhaka is a solid starter for most premier league clubs (excepting the top 6).
Perez is 30 in a few weeks and hasn't done much in the last few years. £4m seems a reasonable price. Moreover, he's more interested in playing than earning which is probably not the same case for Jenkinson and Campbell who are collecting a paycheck and are comfortable. I think Jenkinson was sold at one point with an opportunity to play but he wouldn't accept the wage drop.
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