Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
The wage structure at the club is comical. This is the only club where I've ever heard the excuse that you can't pay your best players top dollars because it will upset their less important teammates. Marcelo is the best LB in the world apparently making 80k per week(less than f*cking Walcott)and you don't see him getting upset about Bale and Ronaldo making upwards of 350k per week. If you look up and down the contracts of the players at Real Madrid you have 2 guys making astronomical money that their shirt sales pay for in Ronaldo and Bale, another group of key players making over 100k a week and the vast majority of the squad well under it even though some flirt with being world class.It's a matter of offering him the money he wants. I don't understand till now (even with my love for Wenger) how that persists as a problem.
Give him 280k. Pathetic that we are gambling with our best player at such a crucial junction in our history.
If Alexis wants 300k then they should give it to him. That doesn't necessitate anyone else making any more money. A player's contract should be based on what THEY do, not what their teammates are earning. Someone needs to go and do an audit of Wenger's economics degree because paying players like Giroud, Walcott and Ramsey upwards of 100k and extending cripples like Cazorla and Mertesacker at nearly 100k each when they're finished is not sound. I treat my Monopoly money with more care. To then compound that stupidity by pleading poverty when your best player and realistically the only one who is actually worth over 100k a week is absolute joke stuff.