Latest team news: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20150122/team-news-gnabry-bellerin-and-welbeck Diaby is injured per usual, with no time frame at all for when he will be back.....Can't the guy just get it through his head that it's time to retire? I'm sure Arsenal will offer him some job as a scout or something. How much bloody money have we wasted on him with wages over the last 2 years and he's had something like what, 2 starts?????
You got me excited then - I thought the phoenix had risen from the flames again! Though to be fair, if I was him I wouldn't give up on my dream, it shows tremendous courage to keep battling away and coming back from each set back. Especially when, as far as I know, he's not taking any wages from the club...
But he hasn't returned from anything....He just keeps being injured...It's come to the point where it's not courageous anymore but just plain stubborn-stupidity, he's doing more harm to his body by continuing. And who in the **** said he's not taking wages? LOL what nonsense, the man is getting his usual wages, what u think he been doing for the last 2 years? Working at Tesco's to earn his living? Somebody made that rumour up and it's become one of these urban legends that Diaby isn't taking a wage, the man is taking a wage, a proper 60k a week.
That's what I've heard from a few sources - that he asked not to take any wages for that time. I'm assuming he still makes a bit from interviews/publicity - and I'm not sure when it started or ended. (I would have assumed he was having a wage this season as he was in the squad for a bit, before getting injured). It's not as if he's been injured with 1 injury that he's never recovered from - he's recovered from a lot of the injuries he's had, he's just picked up different ones and then had recurrences of others.
The end is nigh for Diaby. I think the new boy Bielik was bought in to take the role Wenger once had in mind for Diaby. He's a tall, athletic midfielder and will bring some balance to the squad. Feel bad for Diaby though he had soo much potential.
Those sources are nonsense, plus you don't make money from interviews, unless you're someone huge selling an exclusive story, other than that, you don't get paid to do interviews with media publications. The man is taking a wage, sadly as I said, this has become an urban legend that Diaby doesn't take a wage, heck his camp probably fed this nonsense rumours.
I have no issue with diaby taking his wages, would you stop taking your wages if you were signed of work, and before anyone starts moaning that its different for a footballer because they earn so much money, the club probably has some sort of insurance that will cover part of this. Plus he deserves his wages more than the likes of bentner ever did, it's not as tho he has not been working hard, im a physiotherapist and can assure you diaby would have been working extremely hard every day to get back to playing from all that injuries. I think it is extremely commendable what the club has done with diaby, others would have thrown his on the scrap heap, but we gave him every opportunity to get back playing, at the end of the day you look after your own, and he is one of our own, the club showed its class in my opinion by standing by the man, and comes out with a lot of credit.
You will find that Arsenal just like the vast majority of employers in the UK have an insurance scheme that pays employees when they are absent through sickness etc. P.S It's an "urban myth" not an "urban legend"
Urban legend, urban myth all the same ****. I also don't have a problem with Diaby getting paid, but think it's time to offload him, as I said, we can give him a scouting job.
Diaby is finished http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-looks-to-have-played-last-game-for-club.html Diaby is not the problem, its the club that kept him on the books and renewed his contract several times. As for the argument that there would be some insurance that would cover his wages, bollocks is there. What insurance company is going to give a poicy on him, especially after his contract has been renewed. We fans have paid his wages in the exorbitant ticket prices and on club merchandise. Just think, every time you bought £5 pie you were paying towards Diaby to earn his £10m+ wages over the years.
Diaby has played 16 matches in the last four year with the salary of 60K per week, he earned almost ONE MILLION POUNS for every match he played. Out of those matches in two of them he was excellent, in other four he was OK and in other ten games he was dismal. Sad is when a guy trained every day in some lower league, playing every week, trying to break through and retiring at 30 with no profession and a family to feed. That is sad. Diaby is a multimillionaire. This is not sad, this is a farce.
Personally I say it's sad that a player with the potential to be in the top 5 of his position in his profession in the world world, and dedicate all his time, effort and considerable will to, after countless setbacks never reached anywhere near fulfilling his potential through nothing he did but instead bad luck and a thugs tackle!
Diaby have never been close to any top five or anything. He was inconsistent, lacking concentration, running in cul de sacs schoolyard two tricks pny footballer. The longer he spent on sidelines the better be became for fans. I remember his horror displays too well potential means nothing. Thousands of footballers have potential. Only Diaby managed to earn millions selling potential. Good for him.
Fair enough - my opinion of him differs from yours. Either way it didn't really effect the rest of Arsenals squad or our performance on the pitch - though lots of people have used Diaby as a scapegoat for our frustrations with the amount of injuries to Arsenal players and our lack of big money signings in that position.
And what is really strange about all that is Wenger said on camera that Diaby has inherited the muscle structure that is prone to injuries and he can not do anything about it. So we keep a player who can not play without injuring himself, the manager knows it and we keep paying him, and he is not even a home grown.
Time to call a halt to the whole sorry Diaby saga. Its gone on season after season and I think most people are fed up with it. Will he play. won't he ? Forget it, get rid.
Wengers recent comments on diaby have all been that he will have to have proved his ability to stay fit by the end of his contract to have it renewed. I wouldn't be surprised if beyond that point, he is allowed to remain at the club to train if no other club takes a chance on him.
