its more about the moaners who complain about him being greedy.
they're all greedy fuckers, (bar Sir Jenk's of course) so just pay him. why write of £5.5m for some useless piece of shite, when you could give it to a player that will contribute. why on earth does it matter to us if he wants an extra 25k a week - with or without that expenditure we will still being pissing money up the wall in some other way. we might as well aim for the bowl instead.
If you pay Walcott £80k a week then what are you gonna pay the rest of them when their contracts are up? Santi £150k? Ox, Jack, Merts etc? Does Walcott deserve to earn more than Arteta, Merts, Verm, Jack?? Our wage bill is fucking huge as it is.
All this stuff about Walcott wanting to play up front is pure bollocks. It's about money and nothing else. Does he think Man U, Citeh, Chavs etc would buy him and play him as a striker????
Wenger's not an idiot, if he thought Walcott would be a revelation as a striker he'd play him up as a striker.
Walcott is a super sub. Always has been. Always will be.
Nothing wrong with being a super sub but not worth £80k pw.
Sign a Spaniard instead.
Good post.
Originally Posted by Grebbo
who gives a shit, none of em are worth it and if they want a real pay rise they will be fucking off anyway.
we write off 5.5m just like that on some useless muppet and mess around with rvp etc when it comes to wages?
why does it matter to us how much they pay em. just pay em. they're all mercenaries and the only way we'll ever have a stable team is by paying them.
there is no one that can justify there wages, so its a non argument.
Our wage bill is huge coz shit like Diaby, Bendy, Denilson, Chakma, Squillaci, Djourou etc are on huge salaries. Why dont we just let these fuckers leave for free?! I'd rather have Theo over all of those... thats saying a lot coz I dont rate Theo a lot!! I just want some fucking continuity in the team! We just cant compete selling players every season!
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
Park was a fuck up but that's life. Every club has a Park, several of them probably. Walcott could be another Park. What if we give him a 5yr deal @ £80k pw and he doesn't get in the team? He's not getting in the team now. We've got loads of attacking midfielders/would be wingers.
We didn't fuck around with RVP's wages. We offered him a £5m signing on fee and £140k per week. He didn't leave for money, he left because he didn't agree with how our club was being run (and for more money).
I agree our policy of paying average players above average wages is wrong. The reason it's wrong (and the answer to your question) is because we cannot get rid of them, even for free, as they won't leave for a club offering lower wages.
We offered Arshavin for free and he wouldn't go.
The players you mention could have worked out to be very good players. It's only cos they turned out to be shit that we're moaning about their wages.
course we did, we didn't pay the market rate when we could of. and rvp left over money. they all do. of course walcott will play. we get injuries every season, guaranteed, so he'll get a solid amount of games and contribute far more than someone like park, cham, arsh can do sitting around on their arses.
i used to care what we pay but now i completely realise how much of a con the whole club is at the moment, then fuck it. pay the money - we might just get something back on the pitch then.
Hindsight is wonderful - not long ago most of us were thinking Theo was a complete waste of space. At that point had we offered him a contract...acting early with 2-3 years left and tying him up with an extra 3-4, the club would've got criticised. Offering Walcott near 6 figures when he hasn't cemented his position in the team let alone become a reliable player could be just as irresponsible as paying the other shitsters half that money. There was a time when Arshavin was considered the mutt's nuts; had we doubled his wages there for an extra 2 years on the contract, we wouldn't have cared at all.
But from Walcott's perspective, he can't prove himself as a top player deserving of such money until he gets some starts. And he can't do much else right now but keep netting goals - and he has got 4 for us already this season. I think he'll get goals but anyone playing upfront for Arsenal in recent years gets goal. Gervinho has 5 already and I think he's a shit finisher. I didn't particularly think Adebayor was a natural finisher and he netted plenty. Put Vermaelen upfront and he'll get 20 tap-ins. From the club's perspective, having a 'wide' (as I have said, I don't think any Arsenal attacker is constrained by that label) goalscorer is very valuable.
I wanted the club to break the bank for Van Persie. I still can't believe we let him go to Man Utd. £200k a week - whatever, we should've just offered him what he wanted, because we might well have been on course to win the league if he was still an Arsenal player. But I'm not losing sleep over Theo fucking Walcott. 3rd/4th with him, 3rd/4th without him. Same as Alex Song.
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