Gunners open Cesc contract negotiations

gooner_4_Life 1991 · Post by **gooner_4_Life 1991** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:11 pm

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 63,00.html

BOO-YA

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:16 pm

I wish I knew the e-mail address for the Barca president.
I'd send him that link with a 'stick that up your *rse' message.

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:20 pm

YOU CAN ALWAYS SEND IT TO THE BARCELONA FANS WEBSITE!

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:26 pm

Cracking idea gromitt!

The actual contact e-mail for the club is [email protected]

Now I'm not suggesting that just because I sent it that anybody else should, or shouldn't.
It's up to you lot to decide

donaldo · Post by **donaldo** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:35 pm

Henry signed a four year contract and left the following year.Contracts are not worth the paper they are written on.If the player wants to go he will.No club will keep a player against his will.

augie · Post by **augie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:41 pm

What is the point in offering him a new contract ? Doesnt he have like a decade or so left on his present one ?

Ok I know he has only 5 or 6 years left on it but he only signed it last year so I cannot understand the thinking behind this

Post by **T.S** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:49 pm

I can only imagine that they're offering him a new contract so that they can put some clause in there somewhere...

"Stay for life or your family sleep with the fishes..."

Something like that!

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:59 pm

tonysaunders wrote:I can only imagine that they're offering him a new contract so that they can put some clause in there somewhere...

"Stay for life or your family sleep with the fishes..."

Something like that!

Don Antonio! You know we never speak of this thing of ours...

I don't want to have to send Don Punchio and Don Stabbio to pay you a visit.

Gunnerz4life · Post by **Gunnerz4life** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:02 pm

Dont understand the idea behind it either. And I agree with donaldo, contracts mean nothing when a player wants to leave. I just hope when we do let Cesc go, we twist the barca wankers arm and get the right price for him and not sell him for cheap like we did with Henry and Viera.

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:04 pm

The contract may not stop the player going but it does increase the amount that you get for them. The existing club can insist that the remainder of the contract is bought out in full by the perspective new club.

Wayno · Post by **Wayno** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:26 pm

donaldo wrote:Henry signed a four year contract and left the following year.Contracts are not worth the paper they are written on.If the player wants to go he will.No club will keep a player against his will.

Fair point donaldo but I think Cesc should be commended for making this statement. So often in the past when players have been linked with a move away from the club, we fans have asked that if there is no truth in the rumour then the player/club should say so, this is surely Cesc's way of doin exactly that.

corkbarry · Post by **corkbarry** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:40 pm

We al know how brillant Cesc has been recently,the new contract is giving him a rise in his salary.

Rilo II · Post by **Rilo II** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:53 pm

Pay rise was the first thing I thought of.
Maybe a clause that he can only leave for 100million or something. Knowing us it'll be that he can only leave for a minimum of 3 million

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:11 pm

RILO II HAS IT RIGHT.

IT'S BASICALLY TO ALLOW THEM TO INCREASE HIS WAGES AS THE CURRENT RULES DON'T PERMIT THE CLUBS TO INCREASE THE THE ORIGINAL WAGES ONCE THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED. THEREFORE CLUBS WILL OFFER A PLAYER A NEW CONTRACT WITH AN EXTRA YEAR OR TWO AND THEN THAT ALLOWS THEM TO TEAR UP THE ORIGINAL ONE AND PUT IN AN INCREASE IN MONEY IN THE NEW ONE, STARTING WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

26may1989 · Post by **26may1989** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:35 pm

The wage increase bit is definitely a big part of it. I remember reading that Cesc had mentioned in an interview with the Spanish press last year that he wasn't "even the best paid player at Arsenal." I took that as being a pointed reference to him feeling that he deserved more money. And here we are, negotiating a new contract with a zillion years left on the current one.

Not that I begrudge him more money. They're all paid obscene amounts but Cesc is a lynchpin of the team, and money spent keeping him happy is money well spent.