TeeCee wrote:Wengers role has a financial element
No it doesn't!! He feeds you that line and just like a complete mug you swallow every word and think he is god!
Arsenal have a finance director and many other people employed to look after Arsenal's finances. Wenger's only worry should be going to Gazidis and saying 'Can I sign xxxxxx' or discuss with Gazidis the potential renewal/improvement of a players contract.
Wenger HIMSELF, no-one else, has engineered the award of improved contracts to almost all 1st team squad members including the likes of Denilshit and Billy Bendtner. THIS is where a lot of Arsenal's money has gone and is the reason we supposedly can't afford to pay 'top' wages to the very best players. That's WENGER who has done that, he said it himself.
Wait a minute - which is it - he is making the financial decisons or the financial director is? This is critical, TeeCee as after all you are saying the manager has no finanical role on his his own one moment and then he is making all the financial decisions next.
There is no doubt whatsoever that your point about overpaying several underperforming or underproven players is correct. But where did this policy orginate exactly is quite a bit less clear. After all when our total wage bill was only about 74 million we had to players on 100K or more a week on it, while today we don't have any player on more than 90K a week with a wage buill that is approximately 40 million pounds lbigger.
So knowing this and knowing that a complete underperofmer like Nik Bendtner is on 50K a week and and our best bast most important player in Cesc Fabregas is still on 80 K a week raises the question of how we can hope to sign the players we need - the players we signed routinely before 2005 - on wages that now are 25 to in some cases over 100% below what some otheer teams can and even other teams will pay them?
Before you answer let me remind you of one thing - the Premier League investigators after reviewing the testimony and records of all parties in the Ashley Cole Case in which Arsenal were absolved of breaking any Premier league Rulkes still concluded the Arsenal Board ignored both David Dein's and Arsene Wenger's recommendations to offer Cole 60K a week.
Let me also remind you that Ivan Gazidis negotiates all contracts mnot Arsene Wenger, and that was his job at MLS which has a very strict wage structure very similar to the one in place at Arsenal, and if you are familiar with MLS and its wage structure it too is bottom-weighted as the Arsenel wage structure is(with a single big-money exception like a David Beckham allowed for marketing purposes on each team).
Now as someone pointed out over in another thread he copuld think of three players we could sell straight way to cover the reputed 15 million pounds to buy Gary Cahill. The questions is are we prepred to make their wages available to pay Gery Cahill to sign at Arsenal? Because there are other clubs who would make that available straight away without hesitation. Or are we gonna try to get him to sign for 50K aweek instead of 80K as he could elsewhere?
Like I say though I don't think he should be sacked the Wenger Era is now poisoned almost beyond rescusing. So this is as much about what happens going forward as anything. Menaing it's about whehter any managre can actually fix the problems that years of divestment from the football team have created throughout the first 11 and the squad as a whole.
In other words things may not change at all for the better any time soon no matter who the new manager is and this policy may limit who we can actually hope to take the position as easily as it might have limited who we have hoped will sign to play for us the past several years.
And what are all of you prepared to do if in fact these policies and to remain in place after Mr. Wenger's sacking or resignation? My guess is call his successor a bling deluded senile *word censored* another more, and what does that say of us. Not Arsenal. Not the club or the Board but t of us? Is our passion for Arsenal limited to lynch mobs against people who may not be the real cause of our pain?
