http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6354899 Our average salary is £51,500 compare that with Man Utd at £60,000, Man City £69,300 and Chelsea £71,500 We don't pay our top, top players the same but we have alot over poor to average players earning far too much which raises or average!! For example Almunia and Diaby getting paid £50,000 with no contribution to the team. Bendtner and Denilson on loan with possibly a portion of their wages still being paid by us. We're too socialistic, it's as though they want the squad to be paid on an even balance regardless of quality and contribution to the team. I know we hate them now but it was potentially preventable to lose alot of our key players (Cole, Adebayor, etc) who've left in recent seasons. Chelsea are the top Premier League payers and as such have kept hold of the core of their title winning teams What I don't get is that Gazadis is supposedly this great contract negotiator yet we have all these players we couldn't sell last summer due to their astronomical wages (Bendtner) yet Nasri only had a year left, RVP and Theo only have a year left. RVP deserves to earn what other top players in the league earn and we deserve to lose him if we insult him with anything less
Two years left I believe. As to our salaries - yep, there are obvious discrepencies in how our wages are managed but we're also consistently in the CL every year which reflects with our high wages. I'd say big changes need to be made with our wage structure but I've no qualms with us being in the top 10, just the manner in which we are.
This sort of thread has been done so many times now... we know mediocre players are getting paid more than they should, we know our star players should be paid more. That's it, go revive an old thread instead of making new ones ¬_¬
We seem to be overpaying a lot of the dross players and underpaying the best, which may explain why we always lose our best players. Time for Wenger and the Board to get real, have a clear out and start paying RVP what he is worth and will easily get elsewhere i.e £150k/week.
Not rocket science is it! It amazes me how badly managed our wage structure is. Pay mediocrity more than they are worth, and stars less than they are worth
We have been over this a hundred times and the mistake that is always made is the difference between what is your opinion, and what is fact. YOU may think Bendtner (for example) is a bad player, even Wenger may think Bendtner is a bad player, but if he needs to include him in the team for 100 or 150 games as a striker, then he HAS to pay him 50K, or let his contract expire, and take a 10M loss (or more) on the player. And then pay someone else 50K to play instead. Almunia, Denilson, Djourou (can't believe he keeps being mentioned in the same group), and so on, are the same. As long as we have to put them in the squad, on the bench, and in the starting team, they have a right to be paid the going rate. If you raise the rate for RVP, you have to raise the rate for everyone. Are you going to pay Podolski less? What happens if RVP fails to score a goal next year? Are you going to say that he is **** and ask why he is being paid 150K? Why is this so difficult to understand? Why do you place such a value in opinion?
(not disagreeing with the rest of your post) Yes, there is nothing non-sensible with paying Podolski significantly less than RVP. He didn't quite cut it at Bayern, and has played in a bottom table (now relegation threatened) Bundesliga side in the last 3 seasons. I am certainly hoping he does well for us, but he and Vertonghen are being hyped up and overvalued way too much on this board right now.
In bold - just dont agree at all. In what way does a pay rise for a top performer in any walk of life mean that everyone has to get a rise? How about giving RVP a rise then saying to players like Bendtner - "if you dont like it walk away from your contract, we'll sell you, and go get another club on less wages. Till then keep you rmouth shut." Then when he has a year to go sell him anyway. For players like Podolski come to an agreement on what he is happy with . period. If he does well, raise his pay, at which time we would have hopefully wound down contracts like Bendtners. He should have never been on big money. The crticism is simple and fair - we pay too much for lower quality players and not enough for the stars. The differential is not big enough. We'll need to let some contracts run out to fix the mess. As for opinions - i'd like to point out that your view is also 'just' and opinion.
