Wouldn't that salary have been arranged when he was signed as a relatively unknown 10 million signing from a French Ligue Un team? It was one of the most obscure French signings the manager has made and yet one of the best arguably.
It deserves upgrading of course but I think it's fair enough that it stays as it is until the time of renegotiating/extending. We don't cut their wages if they're not playing well so we shouldn't increase it until the aforementioned.
We could probably fend off Bayern but PSG and Monaco can just keep upping the offer until it's done. So hope there's no truth in it because we'll struggle to find a replacement.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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Not at all - teams realising a player is becoming important to the team or being looked at by others will renegotiate contracts before they're up - look at Rooney, he hints to leave & they up his money every year after he signed a 4 year deal!
Plus he looks like Shrek and dives a lot.
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Merts is on around £90k now, so I imagine he'll be bumped up soon enough.
He said in a few interviews a while back that he has no reason to leave the club, he just wants the club to be able to challenge for trophies. Hopefully he'll get his first one in the next few months.
Or a few weeks because we could win the cup.
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It wasn't so long ago everyone was saying how shit he was, and that we should be doing better.
....and if he goes through a period of poor form for a few months, those same people would be going mental at the club if he was on a contract for 100k a week.
The internet is a daft place.
He hasn't even said anything about leaving, and the internet managers are adament he should be given a payrise. Just like that. 75k, 100k, whatever you like. Name your price Kos. You negotiated that last contract yourself, but we don't mind that. You want more now? Go on then....
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
That's what I was getting at. 50k looks relatively low now (naturally) but it was more than fair at the time. You're right, contracts need dealing with way before they have run their course a it is logical but the timing of renegotiating his contract should come as result of how long he has left to run rather than the need to pay him more imo.
So when it is renegotiated in good time (ie way before his contract ends) he should get more money as I think he has proved he is the real deal rather than a dud. Offering hi more will be part of that process in getting him to resign too which clearly is in the interests of the club.
This. Wenger's thoughts have been too obvious to miss. Why he hasn't acted on his obvious desire for a top striker is a mystery.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
He tried to, didn't he? He tried to get the best striker in the country. Maybe the next best option wasn't available in the January window and he wasn't prepared to blow a ton of cash on somebody he doesn't actually want. Could be many reasons, some of them not revealed to the public. We'll do big business for a top striker in the summer. Not winning the title in a year when nobody expected us to even compete is not the disaster it is being made out to be. Chances are the club is trying to do things properly, get the right player in. Especially given the huge amounts of money at stake and the fact we can't just keep buying players until we hit on a random formula that works - like the chavs and gypos have been doing. We have real business considerations to take into account.
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