As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Sean wrote:The 'White Diaby' is supposedly going to get yet another undeserved hike in wages. From £90K per week, to £110K per week. He'll soon be beating Diaby and Rosicky's record for wages received whilst injured at this rate.
Is this real? Seriously?
If so, that's crazy. Christ if I was out sick as often as him I'd be sacked, not given a fucking payrise.
It does sicken me to see players get automatic wage hikes, regardless of circumstances, when they sign another 'long-term contract with an undisclosed fee'. I know getting charged 45% tax is ridiculous, but for fuck sake. How the fuck can these kids have any desire to play better or harder? Hardly anyone else overpays yet-to-be-worthy players like we do. Our insane 'Socialist Wage Structure' guarantees anyone anywhere near the squad £50-60K a week. Madness!
Sean wrote:The 'White Diaby' is supposedly going to get yet another undeserved hike in wages. From £90K per week, to £110K per week. He'll soon be beating Diaby and Rosicky's record for wages received whilst injured at this rate.
Is this real? Seriously?
If so, that's crazy. Christ if I was out sick as often as him I'd be sacked, not given a fucking payrise.
It does sicken me to see players get automatic wage hikes, regardless of circumstances, when they sign another 'long-term contract with an undisclosed fee'. I know getting charged 45% tax is ridiculous, but for fuck sake. How the fuck can these kids have any desire to play better or harder? Hardly anyone else overpays yet-to-be-worthy players like we do. Our insane 'Socialist Wage Structure' guarantees anyone anywhere near the squad £50-60K a week. Madness!
'Wilshere’s current £90,000-a-week agreement has two-and-a-half years left but the Londoners do not want to risk a situation where he could be antagonised into pushing for a transfer' According to this article.
I know when he's on form he's very good, but I can barely remember seeing him play over the last 3 or 4 years. It really is time we got rid of passengers, not give them an undeserved pay rise, we might actually be proper contenders for the league title then.
Disagree, but he should not be offered another contract unless he plays in 90% of our games in the next 18 months. If we put him up for sale now, who would buy him and what kind of money would we get for him ? This is the biggest indicator of how he is viewed by people in the game - very talented but too brittle to have a career at the top level
Apparently Jack has been on the sauce with some of his tear away mates from Stevenage which might explain why the injury is taking a bit longer to heal. He'll be falling down the steps at RaRas next...
Urko wrote:Apparently Jack has been on the sauce with some of his tear away mates from Stevenage which might explain why the injury is taking a bit longer to heal. He'll be falling down the steps at RaRas next...
Cue another 18 months out then.
In all seriousness though, I think I'm about ready to give up any hope of the kid being anything other than a bit part player. He'll probably be so keen to make up for lost time in his first game back that he'll throw himself into a 50/50 (after losing the ball) and snap something else.
Wilshere has a despicable attitude. It was fucking madness to ramp up his salary to insane levels. He personifies everything wrong with young footballers today.
I've just read that AW says he'll be back middle of March, which will make it just the six months since he last played.
Since Jan 2013 he's officially the most injured player in the PL.
I used to like him. Came throught the academy, appeared to genuinely love the club, but his antics and his injury record have caused me to no longer give a toss. We all know he'll come back, try a mazy dribble, slightly lose control of the ball and then get clattered by the defender running back and spend another six months out.
I'll never criticise one of our players for getting injured doing his bloody job - you'll never see Mertesacker picking up an injury throwing himself in front of the ball or in an aerial clash because he'd rather duck out of it. Our nice guy defenders barely get booked these days.
I preferred the days when we'd get reminders of how many red cards we'd had under TO1AW every time Vieira, Petit, Keown etc saw red. Reckless sometimes....without a doubt, but I'd rather that than watch the paperweights who got mauled yet again in a men against boys clash last Sunday.
Wilshere isn't a bad player at all but of course his injury record is terrible. One of the few players we've got in midfield who would have tried to stick one on the greasy Barcawhore last weekend if he'd been out there
Jack back in mid March, just in time to stake a claim for a place at Euro '16, where he will get injured again - just in time for the start of the new season. I am not cynical, really.
