Amlan: Should Arsenal meet Theo Walcott’s wage demands?
Theo Walcott by Amlan
Robin van Persie has already left for Manchester and Alex Song is supposedly on his way to Barcelona, so will Theo Walcott be the next big name to leave the Emirates?
Walcott is in the last year of his contract and is yet to sign an extension. Arsene Wenger said to the press –
‘We are still trying to extend his deal.’
‘When a player doesn’t want to stay you either force him or you let him go.’
These words will certainly not give much hope to the Gooners out there. Reportedly Walcott is holding out for a £100k per week contract. Arsenal have been known to be tight fisted when it comes to negotiating contracts and pay-rises with the players. This comes just days after Arsenal attempted to make Robin van Persie their highest paid player in the club’s history, but he the £250,000-a-week wage that he is now on at Manchester United is not even half of what Arsenal offered him. We have already seen Samir Nasri leave the club for similar reasons last season when Manchester City offered him a pay-package that nearly doubled what he received at Arsenal.
So if Theo Walcott is demanding a £100k contract, is it unjustified?
The fact is that the big names at Arsenal don’t earn as much as the stars of others clubs do. When one looks at the contract of Fernando Torres, Wayne Rooney, Yaya Toure et all, the weekly wages of Arsenal players fades in comparison. This is because of two things primarily, the first reason is well documented in this recent interview of Arsene Wenger –
‘We live in the economic reality which other clubs do not. There are some things we cannot afford to do. It is as simple as that.
‘How much do you want to pay, £250,000 a week? £300,000? We are here to make the players as rich as possible but also to respect our balance sheet.
‘Honestly, I think it is a short-term problem. You cannot imagine the world will go on just splashing money out without any return.
‘When you have lost the standard of living for normal people, and the football world always gets higher and higher, that cannot last because people will not accept it.’
The second reason is because there are lot of players at Arsenal who are on wages they don’t really deserve. At Arsenal there is not much difference between the wages of a reserve/someone who at best would be a bench warmer and the wages of the first team players. Until the wages of these players are reduced, Arsenal won’t be able to pay the first players what they deserve. Even players like Manuel Almunia (who recently left the club) were on wages that they would have got in any other club.
As of now, Walcott is still far from signing a contract and it looks like he might on his way out. So who thinks Arsenal should change their wage structure to cater for players demands like Walcott?
Why r some of us Arsenal fans so negative! Just be positive and have faith. Otherwise it will be difficult to live ur lives normally ! They need our support not our negativity.
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Walcott should NOT be paid £100k per week. Why ? Because today VS. Sunderland happens too often. He was so uselss we more or less played with 10.5 men.
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Theo Walcott wants 100K/week…??
May be we will win the league by 18 points if we do give him those ” papers “…!
May be we will definitely win the CL beating Real Madrid 3-0 in the final with 3 assists from our dear winger !!
May be both domestic cups will be in the bag before they even start!!
Basically, sign him and give him his 100k a week and we are guaranty to be the best team in world football…
What is going on at Arsenal????
Can someone tell me what is really going on???
Walcott!!
I won’t even notice if he goes… He should have been the first one at the door…
That’s one of the reason we just Van Persie and Song… We have to many “shyt ” players on the wage bill…
And the funniest thing is that Wenger and the board might give him what he wants…
This club is a sorry ” ass ” club and the fans are still glamourously glorifying MEDIOCRITY, which is now total part of the club.
We CAN NOT WIN THE LEAGUE, NOR ANYTHING ELSE… so what is the meaning of Arsenal existence ???
On top of that we are, well I am not anymore as I refuse to buy another season ticket because i am not a sucker and don’t want to be ripped off, the highest rate in the UK and Europe to watch that “rubbish “…!!!
I WISH I WAS ON THE BOARD SO I COULD MAKE SOME SERIOUS MONEY ( like they are doing right now ) ON SUPPORTERS STUPIDITY….!!!
I am still a fervent supporter, but I will do it from home and watching Sky from now on
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Theo trys very hard but is one dimensional.
He needs to create 15goals for others
and score 15 goals himself per season to be paid more.
However he is a Gunner and I support him.
Go Arsenal.
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What on Gods tiny earth is it, with these totally self absorbed, narcissistic prima-donna footballers ( from all clubs)It is such a sad reflection on a society in a so called double dip recession , when we think far more of making sure these PARASITES ( footballers) receive enough in one week to buy yet another top end of the range car, when a mother & farther are working their ‘buts’ off, with their community, to sponsor their sick child The money a footballer earns in i week??? THEN… We have Senior consultant surgeons out there, specialists in treating cancer SAVING LIVES,day in , day out. ALL of whom study for a minimum of 15-17 years to help “US” the public. A top surgeon, on top NHS Wages only can expect to receive a MAX of 80-85 k per YEAR. THESE ‘football’ ‘BRATS’ DEMAND THAT MUCH FOR HALF A WEEKS ”WORK” then we have others ie fire fighters, nurses, paramedics,& our young members of the forces… ALL who, are of FANTASTIC value to our society & have to go through years of UNIVERSITY in order to obtain their qualification.( for the greater good) Less than 3% of all players who are at these silly money football clubs have ANY QUALIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER The amount of money MANY T.A.P.S individual such footballers get in 1 week, would keep three Mcmillan nurses in full time employment for a year. Their yearly wage, would provide life saving equipment & qualified staff for a fire & rescue station for approx 3 years. By all means let these SO CALLED “professionals” play for the club of their aspired choice, however, the stipulation being, by club & or even govt: that, if they “love” the game so much as indeed the many HYPOCRITES footballers state , they ‘do’ Then, by definition, the clubs should say, NO. Or the govt, pass appropriate laws stating that footballers, are NOT allowed to earn more than above the national average wage. WHY SHOULD A FOOTBALLER OF SAY MINIMAL QUALIFICATIONS ( if any) demand UP TO 7 TIMES MORE THAN THAT OF THOSE WHO DEDICATE,& SACRAFICE FOR MANY YEARS, MANY WORKING UP TO 3 JOBS WHILST AT UNIVERSITY,( or an apprenticeship) TO BECOME USEFUL/ contributing MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY. WHILST OTHERS DO NOT ( footballers) BOTH NON ESSENTIAL, PAMPERED, ARROGANT, self absorbed “usually” uninformed & uneducated,individuals In short, wholly overpaid individuals. Or… option two. Put a footballer in the uniform of a British service person for 1 month serving in Afghanistan ( on the wage of 9K a year sqaddy)
If you footballers had any MORAL compass whatsoever, as opposed to the greedy Hedonistic, money grabbing Protozoa Most of you sadly have morphed into, via the ‘little’ talent you may have in controlling a plastic ball for 90 mins on a sat/sun, Then, you would accept say about 4-5 K per month More in keeping with say a consultant senior doctor ( YOU KNOW!!….THOSE day to day LIFE SAVERS I mentioned)
I suspect, the world, the rest of us inhabit as stated, in this recession as mere mortals,many struggling from one week to the next, will not even cost those grossly overpaid/tantrum troubled “individuals” a single moral thought ,on the way to the Range rover dealership to get their ‘next’ £150,000 set of wheels. Many now consider Footballers are NOT even moral role models, Most of even the kids I know, actually admire forces guys. As they are doing a good job for our country, & in many cases laying down their own young lives. & NOT getting £180,000 a WEEK.
By way of a post script, when the young idiot of a footballer runs both himself & some other poor individual off the road in his new range rover Ironically, it will be the paramedics, fore/rescue, nurses & consultant medics who will be tasked with dealing with the aftermath. All of whom, combined, will be on half his weekly wage. I think I have finished my POINT.
The fusilier.
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