EliteKiller wrote:Walcott is on 140k a week, 7.2m a year .... he won't take a pay cut so anyone buying him for 25m on a five year contract has to pay 36m in salary that's an outlay of 61m ..... compare that to Pritchard at Spurs, he was on 25k a week 1.25m a year, so buying him for 9m on a five year deal is a 15m outlay .... even if they could afford 61m, which is the better risk for a smaller club?
The same goes for all our 'failed' projects ... the only clubs willing to take on their salary don't want them ..... the clubs who want them don't want to pay the salary .... Man City were in the same position a few years back, they ended up selling players AND still paying 50% of their salaries just to get them out of the squad .....
Our Board would never spend the money to do that so we're stuck with them until their contracts run down when they are then worth feck all ... piss poor management leaving us with a squad of average, overpaid, unmotivated players .... you can see the results
exactly the wages at arsenal makes it really hard for us to remove players