I don't know if anyone else was listening to 909 football show last Friday, and there was a discussion about wages? Apparently Wenger is the best paid manager in English Football, his salary dwarves that of SAF and he is the 9th best paid manager in World Football. What I also find astonishing is that, he is the only manager in any of the top teams in World Football that earns more than their star player. I know to some of us gooners, Wenger is a miracle worker, but are his wages justified? Should he earn more than his star players?
Wenger is a top manager and i love him at Arsenal but to be paid more than the most successful manager in Premiership/English football history is a bit of a nonsense for me. As much as he does for Arsenal FC not winning anything in 7 years is poor for a club of Arsenal's stature. Can anyone confirm that he gets paid more than SAF?
What did you expect given our wage bill. People at the club are on nice little earners, thats why they stay. This talk of us not having any money is utter tat.
He doesn't just handle the Football side as a Manager, he's effectively in control of the club, and has been for a long time. He's a brand in his own right, and is paid accordingly.
I will bookmark this for the next time I have an argument with someone who claims Wenger doesn't have that level of power
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2012/01/18/2852492/sir-alex-ferguson-pep-guardiola-the-worlds-top-10-best-paid Slightly out of date but interesting. Saw another one with top 20 and Mcleish is up there!
It's only my opinion, and while I appreciate that you take it so seriously, my advice would be not to believe everything I say From the looks of things he wields a lot of power at the Club. He doens't decide the Transfer budgets etc. but I'd reckon he decides the targets, and the team, and the training, essentially everything to do with the Footballing side of the business - save the overseas tours, which I'm sure he's against.
Whether or not he is worth it depends upon whether you believe our last 7 years have been failures and if so, that the failure was his fault. The OP seems to infer that 'yes' is an automatic given with regards to both questions. Just saying
What is a joke is you have 5 managers above SAF, who are inferior managers getting paid more than him. Please remind me the aim of a football manager, is it to win things or make money? Im a little confused....
I would think the aim of the manager is to bring success to the club. The definition of success is where the problems usually begin amongst us fans
http://www.7amkickoff.com/2012/arse...ager-in-world-football-and-worth-every-pence/ Apparently the article originated from France Football, and the author of the article in the above link agrees with Wenger being the 4th best manager in the world.... I agree with him, that he should get paid more than RVP, BUT when you look at teams like united, Wayne Rooney is the highest paid inspite of what SAF has done for that club, similarly City, have Aguero, Yaya Toure and Tevez earning more than Mancini at Barcelona, Messi earns considerably more than Guardiola.... and the list goes on.
Well.... its difficult to claim there's been ANY glory. No trophies, we've lost terrific players, we've gone through the roof with wages, we've sacked Directors for little reason except spite, we've got megabucks/roubles share owners who have never met, we've got octogenarian fuddled directors. shall I stop there?
Lazarus, I think some of them are justified though. Maradona is THE best player ever, imagine what he will do for Arab football being a manager there. If you want the best player in the world ever to manage your club, you have to pay. Mourinho has done it at different clubs and you'd have to say he is the most in demand manager in the world - hence his salary. Pepe Guardiola has created probably the best club football team of all time and his salary reflects that. The rest of them shouldn't be there above SAF, but I dare say if he left and went to one of the super rich clubs he'd be on that money too. I think Wenger's salary reflects the fact he brings CL football to the club and bums on seats, he makes the club far more than he is worth so his salary is a worthwhile investment.
I'd like to add that, although we haven't won any trophies in the last 7 years, the first 3 were a transitional period during the Emirates move, I'd probably only say the last 3 have been failures.
So it's down to money rather than actual success? I thought winning stuff is the true definiton of FOOTBALLING success and not packing out a 60k stadium or making money from qualifying in the champions league? So is Wenger some kind of great money making manager that's good at managing a team too? Wenger is a top manager at the moment but he isn't a great football manager. Great footballing managers would be SAF, Clough, Mourinho, Bill Shankly....
