To the people moaning, look we could lost him for free to one of our rivals (Spurs,Chelsea or Liverpool) and that really would have been a kick in the teeth.
Sorry while i know what you mean i think a concensus does mean effectively compromise. I agree it means an agreement was made but for example if Walcott completely got his way they would just have mentioned that rather than saying consensus. It mostly implies they are not sure what was agreed but that an agreement was reached if they knew either way they would just say it.
It means we've got an English (well British) core of Wilshere, Gibbs, Ramsey, Jenkinson, Ox and Theo. For a team that a few years ago had a reputation of not recruiting British players that is quite a group.
The **** is the difference between 90k and 100k? Some of the fans here are as fickle as a woman buying clothes. Nearly everyone was calling for him to sign, now you act like it's a ****ing disaster for paying 10k or 15k more than you wanted.
I'm really pleased about this news. He is one of our most effective attacking players and this will be a lift for the team. It's about time we keep hold of our players. I can't believe you moany ****s are feeling annoyed about this. You lot just love hating on Arsenal. Sort yourselves out - this is GOOD news. You all go on and on about how finanaces don't matter and it's only about trophies bla bla - so why are you pissed off when we spend money? As far as you lot are concerned it doesnt matter how the business side of things are run at all. Personally i wish it was a longer deal as it means we will have to renegotiate in 18 months or so - but we have another few years where almost all of our key players are on long contracts. Which is fantastic. As far as im aware Sagna is the only player who will be comming to the end of his contract (of our important players). Getting alot of our team on deals which will last the next 3-5 years means we can stop worrying so much about losing our players and start to add to the squad. This is a good start to our transfer dealings. Hopefully we can bring in a player or two.
100K/week is obscene and contributing to high gate fee's and another nail in the coffin to the average supporter who is finding it hard to watch a game live... disgusting...
Messi, Ronaldo, Van Pussy, etc... all make 100k/week yet nobody is bitching about them I think Theo should have gotten 90k/week, but I'm not bothered if he gets 100k/week.
Do you Arsenal fans now think that this could be the begining of the turn of the tide so to speak with regards to losing your best players with the likes of Wiltshire, Gibbs, Ramsey and Walcott signing new deals?
I'd rather we compete. The alternative is to turn the club into a sociopolitical statement about high wages, and become a martyr for principles that no-one else follows. Arsenal made money the responsible way, now we have a right to spend it. It's either Walcott's pocket or Kroenke's. Go whinge about Man $hitty.
Yes and it's a good point to raise. Wenger has tried to build a squad around a nucleus of young players before, in Cesc, Nasri etc and players have been sold, each youth project has been undone. This is a good time at Arsenal for some really talented young players. Szczesny, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Ramsey, Wilshere and now Walcott. and they are all committed to the club. As already mentioned, paying any footballer 100k is obscene, but in context it's what Arsenal have to do to keep Walcott, so I don't really have any sympathy for the extortion arguments. Another club would pay him that and more and had we lost Walcott in that scenario . . people would be going mental The board have made a commitment to spend and compete on wages, so for me this is congruent with that.
Does it bug the **** out of anyone else that when you edit a post it wipes out the smiley you've added unless you type it in again ?
It's not like I don't support the decision to keep him either, they looked at the options and thought we can't get a short term replacement and we can get more value out of an eventual transfer a season or two down the road from Walcott. That said, like I've said a year and a half ago with more left on his contract, I'd swap him with any winger in the world at his inflated market value (+'English' tax).
