Arsenal failing to keep their talent

[dirtydave]

just read this on bbc gossip and it made me think.

Arsenal striker Robin van Persie has warned the club they face losing their best players unless they alter their wage structure. (Various)

will aresenal have to rethink this structure (some would it is similar to ours) in order to maintain their level and go further in domestic and european football. they undoubtably have the infrastructure to take a risk on outlay (big stadium and champions league income), but seem reluctant to stretch themselves to look for a massive windfall.

are they right or wrong to take this current stance? time will perhaps tell but if helb and adebayor go following flamini then they have lost 3 exceptional footballers and 1st team regulars in the space of one window.

 

[Shanks]

Are they the only team in the big four that dont have players on 100k+ a week?

 

[donny1013]

The slimey bloke Fiszman was on SSN the other night saying their wage bill is similar to Man Yoo's?? surely Rio, Rooney and Ronaldo are on 90k plus a week so i dont know how that can be true

 

[bubble07]

I've used what that cock said to all the scum fans thinking they have a reasonable wage structure.

 

[hashmander]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7423254.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7424134.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/29/premierleague http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/05/29/sfndel129.xml

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Unsurprisingly, West Ham and the Magpies are up there - what with the hammers shelling out on so many of the older players, they probably payed up in wages what they saved on their price though, so was it a good move? :shrug:

The Barcodes, bless em, seem to just love shelling out for semi-talented players - what was it, 4.5m for Titus Bramble a couple of years back? :rofl: classic...

 

[yanno]

From the Guardian piece linked by hashmander:

The 2006-07 figures almost certainly reflect clubs spending future broadcasting revenues but there are startling disparities between the important wages-to-turnover ratios at clubs in England's top two divisions. The average Premier League figure stood at 63% but Tottenham could be proud of their housekeeping because their wages/turnover ratio was the lowest at 42%. Manchester United's was a disciplined 44% and Liverpool's 58%.

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I suspect this is main reason we said "no mas" to Eto'o. An outstanding player, but his wage demands were ridiculous. It would have been financially irresponsible at this point in the club's development to have agreed to his demands.

 

[worcestersauce]

The arsenal have had a system in place for some time where they pay a wage and then pay into player's off shore funds, I remember first hearing about this when Bergkamp wnet there they set up one in Aruba for him.
Naturally where these funds were set up the tax was negligible which increaed their earnings by tax avoidance(not evasion apparently).
As I recall this all blew up a few years ago and the club had some explaining to do, my understanding was that they didn't get prosecuted but had to stop the practice.
Since then pretty all the players at that time have left.

I may be wrong but this may have some bearing on things.