GET ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY FOR GABI.
Now, we begin.
There’s really nothing better as a writer than the penning a boring post about how things are pretty decent. It’s a joy after 3 months of writing about how an idea you really pushed was actually pretty terrible.
This week is about three things. Moving on deadwood. Praying for Gabi’s ankle. Winning three points in a tough game against Crystal Palace this Thursday.
Players aren’t moving out the door fast enough and everyone is getting themselves into a bind. Fans tend to lean harder into believing the rumours they don’t like (stole that from Arseblog). The latest is that Arsenal are putting their foot down with regards to selling Eddie Nkeitiah to West Ham. Are you fucking kidding me? Arsenal just borrowed £120m to see them through the season. If someone offers £30m for an academy player that hasn’t been able to dislodge our strikers in the worst goal drought in a decade, I think Boris Johnson might roll down to Highbury House and call in that loan early.
There are very few players on our books that aren’t for sale at the moment. Kieran Tierney to Napoli? No chance. Eddie to replace Haller at West Ham for £30m? No way we’re not considering that sort of deal. We do not have the financial luxury to keep passing on good cash for squad players only to bench them.
I fully expect Willock, Reiss, Eddie, Mustafi, and Sokratis to be on the market this window… loan or sale. Sad reality is that Nico Pepe should also be on that list. West Ham took a £20m ‘L’ on Haller, the player wasn’t good enough, so they took what they could for an asset that was fast depreciating. We should look to do the same with Nico. It’s clear he’s not at the level. His basic technique is off, he’s too one-footed, the positions he takes up don’t help the team, and if anything… he seems to be regressing.
Also, what the fuck is going on with AMN? Arguably, he’s our best right-back, third-best deep-lying midfielder, and our back-up left-back. Why is Joe Willock landing minutes over him? I hope he’s being given the job of marking Zaha on Thursday, if not, it again starts to look like another ‘I just don’t fancy him’ issue from a coach with hard-to-comprehend player taste principles.
The biggest weak point for him is the weird relationship he has with young players. Why isn’t he coaching AMN to be better than Elneny? Why was he about to loan out ESR when he was literally the only #10 at the club? Why doesn’t he embrace young players he can coach with the same passion he embraces older bums? Painful viewing.
He’ll say that plays Gabriel and Saka. Sure, but those two were Emery’s doing. Gabriel was not part of the action at the start of last season and we wondered. The talent isn’t in giving minutes to generational talents, it’s making decent young players great ones.
If you’re going to hoard young players, you have to give them minutes. If you aren’t going to do that, sell them. We have to break the cycle, because at the moment, we’re giving minutes to players with no resale value at the expense of pumping the value of talent that could pick up £20m plus this summer. That’s dim.
Edu needs to find his cajones this summer and put an end to this sort of thing. Arteta shouldn’t have the option of clogging the path for young players. Let’s hope this window and the summer see Arsenal own up to the truth… the future is kids and there are no shortcuts to be had with bum players nearing the end of their careers.
I’ve just made myself angry after starting this post stating that writing was going to be a breezy affair this week.
Stupid football.
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AMN has gotta be in the doghouse, no other explanation, especially as he was the ‘go-to’ in big games last season.
Makes even less sense turning down decent money for him last summer….
Napoli coming in for Tierney? F*ck right off!!!
Offer them Pepè.
Remember the AMN masterclass in midfield against Man united at OT in Wenger’s last season?? Pogba was even praising him after the game!
Can’t let go of that performance. We need to get AMN in the middle of the park he has the sauce, athleticism, football brain and hunger to succeed we all know he wants to play there. Give him a run of three games and I promise you he’ll end someone’s Arsenal career.
Spot on post 👍.
Shakhtar would be asking around 50 to 60 mil for Solomon. He plays like Hazard and has great balance, just not been tested in top league. He tend to mostly move to his right side and in the PL they would work him out.
“I just don’t fancy him’ issue from a coach with hard-to-comprehend player taste principles” yep this is a problem that i think a lot of fans have with Arteta well that and the % thing but browsing through press reports this morning he appears to be learning and praising players who do maybe have some confidence issues which is a good thing as all Arsenal players are potential assets .Lets hope he is learning but as you say Pedro AMN needs to play against ZAHA on Thursday and most importantly and I am sure this goes for a lot of… Read more »
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Sean,
AMN can never play in the middle for a top 6 or even 8 in the PL. He’s too relaxed and lose the ball too often, add to that his tracking back in some games is at walking pace.
Arteta has been lucky with the young players he inherited from Emery. But if he wants to remain as manager, he will have to either improve senior players or at least stop them from regressing> Willian, Auba, Pepe, Laca, Xhaka, Bellerin – are they better than they were a year ago? Overall, no. Probably slightly worse. Our sauce of a coach does not have the skill to instil confidence into players, so I don’t think he can ever become a top coach. But maybe if we continue overspending compared to rivals for another 2 years, we can get back to… Read more »
Xhaka just like the last time when he told the fans to F off, he came back had good 10 games or so, then started being Xhaka again. Since the red card he’s been great and as soon as he thinks he’s good, he would go back to being Xhaka and look bad again.
Elneny has the right attitude and the heart, he just has limited ability for this level. Good squad player though.
I really want to see Chambers in midfield if fit next to Partey and he that would work out.
Not selling Nketia for 30 millions is even worse than the signing of Willian.
Don’t understand the AMN situation.
What the hells going on.
Graham 62
Arteta is happening. Add to that he rejected an offer of 20 millions so we have an asset rotting in the nothing.
I think players should be carded for screaming out like schoolgirls whenever they are touched..
Longstaff was hardley touched and has been made to look like a fool for his reaction to Smith Rowe’s tackle.
They should be named and shamed …
Time up , that shouldn’t be a problem then as I think Arsenal are like 11th lol……………….lol all jokes aside I was thinking more of a right back position for the Palace game as I don’t rate either Bellarin or Soares and I think we know mr Saha is going to very interested in inflicting as much damage on Arsenal as possible , there are those who still rate Bellarin but for me he would be better placed at PSG ,Barca or better still on a green piece anti whaling boat with a rainbow mack and an over sized sun… Read more »
Fans shouldn’t get too far ahead of themselves with our recent victories.
Newcastle, Brighton and WBA are teams that offer very little going forward , palace and newcastle are next and then the tougher games start coming and that will give us an idea if we have really turned the corner.
Pierre,
You forgot Longstaff is Brit, we don’t do this cheating things in this country, only foreign players do that, and they should be shamed.
That’s way you never hear of Rooney dive to end our 49 runs. However they can’t stop mentioning Bobby dive against Portsmouth.
Crawleys Nick Tsaroulla is just 21.
I wonder how many PL managers were watching yesterday’s game.
I also hope Willock and Nelson were watching.
That’s what desire and belief is all about.
Some of our players take everything for granted and are spoilt rotten.
Nick Tsaroulla deserves his break.
SAGG
Why has AMN been frozen out when it was clear to us all that he was on the up.
Did he sleep with Arteta’s wife?
I don’t get it.
“The biggest weak point for him is the weird relationship he has with young players. Why isn’t he coaching AMN to be better than Elneny? Why was he about to loan out ESR when he was literally the only #10 at the club? Why doesn’t he embrace young players he can coach with the same passion he embraces older bums? Painful viewing. He’ll say that plays Gabriel and Saka. Sure, but those two were Emery’s doing.” Wow Pedro that must have been tough to type. It is like you have finally realised what the rest of us saw months ago.… Read more »
LOL Shaun,
I agree at right back. He seems to enjoy doing the man marking and always does a good job. Maybe when he Marks someone it gives him his concentration back.
I remember last season he marked Zaha out of the game at SP.
Graham,
Even ESR Emery gave him his debut two seasons ago and played him in the PL and Europa league before we los him to a long term injury then loaned him to Germany where he could not play due to injury.
Kris
“Arteta has been lucky with the young players he inherited from Emery.”
Thet are Wenger boys , brought up playing football the wenger way , not the Emery headless chicken style of football that many are still craving for .
After Lego heads start of the season horror show, I don’t think he should still be there but it is what it is and we need to see if the coach is going to learn and change for the better that’s why I mention AMN and benching Willian .For me that would be learning, Niles will definitely play better with ESR and saka who if deployed on the right will cause all sorts of issues , so lets see what LEGO head does .Personally I would go with physicality and movement for the palace game that’s why I mention Gabriel… Read more »
£30m for Eddie, get Edouard or Daka or similar.
Be interesting to see what Mikel does regarding centre backs when Gabriel is fit. I’d go Mari and Gabriel although they are both left footed.
Just hope Gabou Diabynelli is not crocked for the rest of the season. Thought it was his knee again not his ankle ?
Seems that his ankle injury is not too bad thankfully !
Apparently Arteta has poo-pooed the Nketiah to WHU rumours. With a ‘No’.
Thanks pedro for this post. Exactly my sentiment.
It’s getting tiring seeing a 19 years old and his agent holding us to ransome.
I keep saying it’s as a result of our decline as a football club. It’s understandable when a performing senior player does that but a 19 years old who i can’t even remember going on loan for once to show what he’s gotten?
It would be really interesting to see arsenal play with a midfield of amn-partey-smithrowe
It might be disaster or just outrageous class. Who knows.. but those three should benefit from each others talents. And they all have great movement and one touch passing. Something I have really missed past years.
Leno
Bellerin-holding-pablo-tierney
Partey
Saka-smithrowe-amn-auba
Lacazette
To me that looks the best team we could produce this season.
I think Arteta Wenger MK 2 seems to have favourites that he keeps picking regardless of form, and like Wenger did has lucked out on a system and players. Can you guys honestly say that ESR would of got the games he’s had, if it wasn’t for injury to others. I’m sorry but every time Arteta fields Willian he looses credibility with me. How can he be blind to the dross he produces on the pitch. As for not selling Eddie, that’s madness I like the young guy but sadly he’s not going to make it at Arsenal. 30m that… Read more »
“Willian, Auba, Pepe, Laca, Xhaka, Bellerin – are they better than they were a year ago? Overall, no. Probably slightly worse. Our sauce of a coach does not have the skill to instil confidence into players, so I don’t think he can ever become a top coach.” bellerin was better than when he first came back from injury. Auba’s form’s got nothing to do with Arteta. Laca wasn’t moving mountains last season. In fact, I could recollect that a lot of posters here wanted laca to be sold. Pepe was more of on and off form. Fans were of the… Read more »
Pedro I don’t disagree that we should not be stockpiling young players. On the other hand you need to speculate if you wish to find the prize jewels like Saka and Martinelli. George Graham told me in 1990 that becoming a top class footballer was a one in a million chance and that was in the era when most players were recruited in UK. Today recruitment is on a global basis. I believe that the top EPL clubs hope to find at least one player every two years in their academy who makes the grade. If you achieve that it… Read more »
We hear that Willian is on £250k and Runnarson £40k, my question is, how do we know?
I cant believe either the club or the players have made a public announcement, but maybe Im wrong.
T,
How many matches has amn played as a midfielder for us for you to put him in the midfield? I prefer he plays as a right back than in the middle. He looses concentration too easily.
Pedro, dis-anger yourself The idea of Arteta as coach was spot on, he is the right man for the job. We should be happy that Nketiah is NOT for sale: he is a natural goal scorer. The future lies with the young and vigorous. If at times Arteta’s choice of players seems odd, it’s rotation, an essential with so many games played in such a short time. If there is difficulty offloading players, the reason is their high wages, not Arteta’s fault. And if he persists with Pepe it’s because he believes the player will come good. And a ‘turned… Read more »
Englndbest,
Read on goal.com that Martinelli was on the training ground today (didn’t train) and was more relaxed than on Saturday.
He even watched the second half of the match in the stands.
Hope he isn’t layed off for a long time
“Regarding Maitland-Niles. I think that he is a “good” footballer, but not a great one. I disagree with your viewpoint that he is our best right wing back. His problem is that he is a “utility” player. From my perspective Arsenal need to recruit and develop specialists in required positions and unfortunately AMN rather like Oxlade-Chamberlain does not fit into that mould.” don’t really agree with the above statement at all . I think you will find that in most Fans opinions AMN is our best RB option currently Bellarin has been very poor since his injury and I am… Read more »
Sounds like a new back up keeper is on the cards this window.
Willian is not on 250k a week. I think it is about 140-160 from more trusted sources.
I would imagine the 250k is if he and the club meet all targets. Based on the quality of his output and the teams poor performances I don’t anticipate he is receiving his bonuses to be paid 250k. Every cloud haha
Well said Pedro!
Can’t disagree with that haha
I’m a Nketiah fan but turning down £30m is stupid, if it was on the table from West Ham. If they are willing to insert a buy back or a sell on clause in there, lower the price to £28m and be done with it. Use that money to secure Balogun’s contract and part way pay for someone like Buendia… or a decent left back in the same fashion as Tierney. With all the best will in the world both ESR and KT will not be able to play every game and we risk injury if we try to do… Read more »
Wilko My perceptions of things may differ to yours, but I can tell you for a fact that there are better players playing in the lower leagues than are playing in the PL. Fate and luck can go against you. As for Nick Tsaroulla, you can see there’s a special talent there. Based on the fact he was involved in a car accident which halted his progress, it was great to see him proving that he’s on the way back. He was in the Spuds academy but was released by them in 2017-18 following the accident. By the way, I’m… Read more »
@ES Re: the cost of Pepe and Aouar. James from Gunnerblog was on the Arsecast the other week and said how many players of 50-80m don’t really work out and how much of a risk it is. A quick thought of premier league players who have been poor since joining, or at least haven’t met expectation. Keita, Mendy, Ndombele, Jorginho, Morata, Kepa, Pepe, Lukaku and Pogba. The 20-30 million market is where the real value is and if it goes wrong, the hit the club has to take is less of an impact. Whether we can afford that kind of… Read more »
Lots of historical revisionism going on yesterday.
Özil was a panic buy because Wenger wanted to shut his critics down who lambasted him for being tight fisted, summer after winter after summer after winter…
Remember that same summer he brought in Yaya Sanago and Mathieu Flamini (his second stint at Arsenal) on a free.
Özil was a vanity project, nothing more nothing less for Wenger. A two finger salute from the Frenchman to his critics to prove he could still sign and attract the biggest players…. except financially it was a disaster.
Being great as 12 year old doesn’t mean you’ll be great as a 20 year old.
One of my gripes and has been for years, is that so many clubs ignore the lower leagues when it comes to recruiting talent.
Shite, I’ve seen better GK’s playing for Worthing Town over the years, than the Icelandic fisherman we hired and who’s on £40k a week.
according to Spotrac:
Ozil…………£350,000
Auba……….£250,000
Partey…….£250,000
Willian……£192,308
Laca………..£182,063
Bellerin…..£110,000
Luiz………….£100,962
Kola………….£100,000
Leno………..£100,000
Pepe………..£100,000
Xhaka……..£100,000
These are the highest earners.
Crabregas
I tend to agree with the point you make. Spending mega bucks makes only sense if the player
is producing an exceptional performance level over several years. The problem is also increased by the wage demands, because once a player is on £100K pw + he is very difficult to shift if he fails to meet expectation.
Hoarding youth players can continue if we can learn to sell them on a good profit and reinvest the funds back into the first team.
What needs to stop is the signing of pointless and well past the sell by date players like Cedric and Willian.
AMN needs to play in place of Cedric for a start…
I note that Holding has signed a new contract. Whilst I don’t think that he is a world class
player I do think that we have now in Holding, Mari and Gabriel three decent CBs.
If we can find a RCB who is genuinely World Class and a Team leader in defence I think that
we have the makings of a solid Central Defence.
Leedsgunner 11:53 nails it.
No point in everyone getting heated over Arteta “turning down” £30m from West Ham for Nketiah. As of now they haven’t even made an offer probably on their 5 man shortlist at best.
Even then maybe for a loan.
Looks like Runnerson’s getting shifted out though.
No problem with Holding’s new contract. Good pro, good age/wage and steady backup.
Pierre must be busy with Ozil’s Monday Q&A session.
With Willian, we’ve just the club again with the salary of an ineffective passenger that we had with Mkhitaryan last few seasons.
We need to be LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES not repeating them!
Pedro
Arteta learnt from Pep and Pep isn’t a developmental manager.
*burdened the club again
Arteta hints at signing a GK temporary on load until Summer and then sign Brentford’s David Raya as our #2 GK in Summer.
#on loan
I dont think we will see much movement until the last days of the window. Every man and his dog knows we are trying to offload players so buyers have the advantage. All the speculation is just that rumour, nothing more.
Nelson
“Pierre must be busy with Ozil’s Monday Q&A session.”
Be original Nelson …it’s never a wise move to tread the same path as the Le Groaners as they invariably get it wrong…
There’s really nothing better as a writer than the penning a boring post about how things are pretty decent.
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?????????? Pretty decent? WE ARE 11th! 8 loses. 7 wins. We are ARSENAL ffs!
Ridiculous.
Did someone just say they want Chambers in midfield?
Bloody Hell!!
You’ve gotta be kidding me
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9133493/Arsenal-outcast-William-Saliba-wins-Man-Match-award-just-second-game-loan-Nice.html
Seems like there are others who feel Saliba could have been used based on after seeing him in 2 games for Nice.
Kinda shits on the” he’s not good enough” narrative that was being peddled.
Ozil is set to “talk about the past, present and future” with a question and answer session on Twitter on Monday evening. He may announce his departure himself on social media by passing the club.
Stroller
“CBs.If we can find a RCB who is genuinely World Class and a Team leader in defence I think that
we have the makings of a solid Central Defence.”
We have one already, no? Should be ready to go at the start of the season. ( If he ever comes back)
Ainsley Mole Niles
Saucy coach with no Youth project
Saliba MoM in his second match at Nice after 10 months of inactivity
Balogun about to leave
Hale Enders are Wenger products they were brought up in an academy from the age of 9(for the most part) with his imprint and training methods
I would sell Nketiah in a heartbeat. Willock can also be good but he won’t be good enough to make us regret selling him too. The one I would be worried about selling is Reiss Nelson. As soon as he gets some type of confidence and a kick on the ass, He might make us regret selling him. I would keep all the youth including Balogun, except Nketiah and willock even if a great off comes for now. Crabregas I like that approach. You mostly fail with a really big signing. A 20 to 30 mil player will be okay.… Read more »
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Emirates Even across Europe there is so much wastage spent between clubs within that bracket value. I think you’re right on salary. Now it is a case of any decent international would command 100k a week and if he does well, would likely demand a 50% pay rise. Whereas in the real world if you perform well you get a few less than 10% (and that’s being kind). Re: Holding. I think that is a good signing as he has stepped up and performed well this season. Hopefully that RCB is Saliba but we will wait and see what happens… Read more »
Habesha
It’s definitely where the value is. I know we spread out the Pepe money but if we purchased to 30m players and 1 20m player of all 3 don’t perform the loss is probably no more than 10million. If they kick on and perform then they are 50mil players that we can retain or sell on for profit. You can take a slightly more calculated risk at that point.
And signing another CB is stupid. How many is it in the last few years? Get Saliba back at the end of the season.
Then we would have 4 good CBs all in a good age.
The only money that we should spend on the defense must come from the player we sell in that position. Sell bellerin or Soares, buy a new RB, Sell AMN, buy a new Lb replacement.
We can’t go on spending on CBs every season when we have good enough players now and there is a huge gaping hole in midfield.
Crabregas I was screaming for Ziyech the summer we signed pepe. I was screaming for us to sign buendia last summer too. There is plenty of value in the 20 to 30 mil market. At worst you sell that player around 15+. Torreira for example will go at that price. But if the player succeeds you mostly have great players. The extreme way to do this would be like Dortmund who sign 10 to 20 mil players and price them at 50 mil+. Aubameyang, Pulisic, Dembele all sold 50 mil+. Sancho on the same trajectory. They also made profit on… Read more »
Nelson:
Willian……£192,308
Laca………..£182,063
Luiz………….£100,962
Seriously? Willian earning more than Laca?
And what’s up with the +£308, +£063, and +£962? Strange to me.
The Pandemic has had a major impact on transfer activity. It might be okay for clubs that are financially doped and owned by foreign states (Man City are owned by Abu Dhabi) but for everyone else it’s increasingly difficult. You have to be careful making judgement calls on young players because they can improve suddenly; game time and confidence play a big role in development but it’s a vicious circle because they tend to get bit part roles and we’re expecting miracles. Fans are quick to judge because we compare to players who are already at the level we think… Read more »
ET
‘George graham told me in 1990…’
I bet he did mate 😅
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9133493/Arsenal-outcast-William-Saliba-wins-Man-Match-award-just-second-game-loan-Nice.html
Seems like there are others who feel Saliba could have been used based on after seeing him in 2 games for Nice.
Kinda shits on the” he’s not good enough” narrative that was being peddled.
Very very different take than the Mirror put out… https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/william-saliba-start-loan-nice-23292012
Shit, forgot to quote you Mark^
I would love to see your imaginary phone contacts list man LOL
No doubt includes Bojo, Buzz Aldrin and at some point likely Nelson Mandela as well 😂😂
Its great to see Saliba win Motm. I love the guy.
Just a word of caution, the Motm award was a twitter poll and Arsenal twitter is massive.
Zimmie Saliba is a highly respected prospect. The problem he had was a serious injury and the fact that when he did come back, the French season suddenly ended for the pandemic. He needs to get match fit and recovery fully and that is harder to achieve sitting on the Arsenal bench. Playing U23 football is game time but it’s not a high enough level to fully test a player. Sending him on loan is the sensible and right thing to do. Why risk him when we have Pablo Mari, Gabriel and Holding doing well? Saliba is another one of… Read more »
AFC forever “. Some players take longer to develop or don’t settle, like Pepe. Seems bizarre that De Bruyne wasn’t deemed good enough by Chelsea or Salah but we now know how good they are. By the way I’m not suggesting Pepe is as good as those two but just making the point that some players need time or new surroundings/better coaching etc.” I’ve been trying to educate the majority on here who write off players. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time and playing under the wrong manager can can have a massive effect on a player’s… Read more »
The players I’d like to see us targeting are 23-25, who’ve been playing in this country for at least 2-3 seasons, who know what the league is all about, speak the language, and can hit the ground running. Buying players from other league’s is risky, for every Bruno Fernandes, there’s a Pepe, Fred, Havertz, Werner, who either take a while to settle, or never do find their stride. Mkhitaryan was ripping up the Bundesliga and now Serie A But was hit + miss for both us + United. The obvious choices would be Grealish + Maddison, but both likely impossible,… Read more »
Pierre
I think you should take some of the player judgement on here with a pinch of salt mate. It’s agenda driven nonsense.
“And what’s up with the +£308, +£063, and +£962? Strange to me.”
Simple math. Willian/his agent negotiated an annual salary of 10mil /year. Cool round number. Divide that by 52 weeks, and you’ll get his weekly salary.
Welcome news about Rob Holding’s new deal.
ES – That right sided centre back could still be Saliba should be have a productive loan spell and be back for us next season.
Can’t disagree with this post, Pedro. The enigma that is Arteta. Does he have a clue what he is doing, or do random events play into the perception that he does? Before Saka came on, what did the team he put out on Saturday look like? A well-coached team, with a plan, working together? Or a random assembly of players with no clear direction? Newcastle should have buried the game before extra time, they had the chances. The pattern seems to be a manager that is loathe to let players go, even though he doesn’t give them time or apparently… Read more »
Saliba got man of the match in nice latest match… wasn’t ready tho…hmmm
If you are right about the £30m for Eddie we should jump at it because he is never going to be good enough for Arsenal, neither Willock nor Nelson . AMN is so much better than Willock and I am amazed that he is not playing more, I think midfield is his best position, and I agree, just get rid of Pepe who is a total joke and needs to be moved on.
I am worried about Balogun though, he looks the real deal and we are set to lose him on a free.
We should go all out for Pedro Neto.
Can play left + right wing, as a No10 + No8 and has even played centre mid.
Having a player with similar quality to Saka with the same level of versatility, doesn’t hinder the progress of Saka or Smith-Rowe, but gives us the opportunity to rest + rotate our front line.
If we could get him for £45-£50mill?
I’m pretty sure his value would increase + not decrease over the next few years.
Glad about holdings new deal I just hope his Salary is sensible
He’s a good player and value for his place as a third choice CB and frequent rotation option, tho arsenal being arsenal I imagine he’s asked for 70k a week and they’ve insisted on giving him 400k a week for good measure
This is arsenal after all
I don’t want to sell Eddie but anything over 20m should be too good to refuse right now
If we really turned down 30 that would be madness right now
ADKB
Willian……£192,308
Laca………..£182,063
Luiz………….£100,962
Arsenal player contract is probably in annual salary. The weekly salary is calculated from the annual salary.
Ozil…………..£18,200,000
Auba………..£13,000,000
Willian…….£10,000,000
Luiz…………..£5,250,000
Kola…………..£5,200,000
The only exception is Laca. His annual salary is £9,467,273.
I don’t really like the idea of us paying 45m for anyone right now
We can’t afford to pay that kind of money and the player doesn’t work out for any reason. The days of us being able to reasonably afford such players is likely over for the short term – unless we can sell some dross for good money sharpish