Max: Wenger’s FOUR options for Nasri (All bad for Arsenal)
Samir Nasri Situation Has No Upside by Max Baker
Arsenal FC are in a very interesting and very disheartening situation following the recent developments in the Samir Nasri saga. As many of us know Nasri is demanding an outrageous £120,000 a week as where Arsenal have so far only offered £90,000 a week. Which begs the question how is Nasri supposed to feed his family on £90,000 a week? Just kidding, but in all seriousness Nasri really has Arsenal backed into a pretty tight corner with this whole thing and at the moment he is holding all the cards.
As of right now there is absolutely nothing stopping Nasri from moving to Manchester United if he really wants to. All it would take is a quick meeting with Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis in which he says, “sell me to Manchester United now or I go there on a free next year.” Gazidis would tell Arsenal majority-owner Stan Kroenke about the meeting and Nasri would be sold before sundown. Kroenke is a business man in the purest sense of the word and there is no way he would let one of his top assets leave in exchange for nothing.
So the way I see it Arsenal have four options. Option one is you sell Nasri to Manchester United for whatever they’re willing to pay (probably half of what he is really worth), option two is you try to sell him to the highest bidder and hope he doesn’t block the move, option three is you keep him around this year and he probably leaves on a free before the 2012/2013 season, and option four is you give him the £120,000 a week he wants to keep him at the club.
Now I personally am not fond of any of these options but if I had to pick one it would be option four. As much as I hate to reward someone for acting like a huge prima donna it is essential that we keep Samir Nasri out of the hands of one of our biggest Premier League rivals at any cost.
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option 5: freeze him out of playing next season for being such a tard
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i would let him sign the contract and then sell him rass
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Nasri?? who is dat?..just sell him…doesnt av a heart to become a true Gooner!… plenty of talented players out there better than him…!
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Outrageous prize, he deserve d money bt it 2 expensive 4us,
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Wenger should have signed him down much earlier. Anyone who has 2 yrs left on their contract must sign of be sold. AW is just hopeless in some areas of management. No way should we lose money on this transfer. We signed him for 12million and he’s a much better player now.
To lose Fab and Nas would be the end for Arsenal and on AW is to blame for this predicament as he is the manager. Why he didn’t buy a quality GK and CB last year is beyond most normal people.
…Alternatively……….pay him $120,000 a week! how much do the directors earn a week?
Let me manage Arsenal!!!!
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why do you refer to his demand for 120 pounds a week as outrageous? Samir’s skill is comparable to anyones in the big clubs. The problem is that ur coach has failed to support him with equally gifted and adventurous players. Again, you refer to manutd as one of your greatest rivals. Arsenal is not even competitive so is not a rival to united. I thought that you have known this by now. Arsenal is just a participant. My prediction: wenger wont give him 120 and wont sell either. Samir will leave for free next season. Remember, wenger is deluded.
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Nasri is a very good player but I guess we are just over-rating him. He can be good but not irreplaceable..he had a great first half of last year. Second half he was very ordinary… do we lose all our self-esteem just to cling on someone who is good but not GREAT
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Option 5, keep him for another year but ensure that he gets a broken leg in training. Ok, that’s perhaps a bit extreme. To be honest he’ll never succeed at United anyway. Nani and Valencia provide many more assists than him plus he is a timid little boy who will cry when Ferguson shouts at him. Sell him to United, get good money for him and then watch him fail like every other player that Arsene ever sold. He was useless for half of the season, why do we care if he goes to United.
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give him the contract simple … arsenal players r amongst the cheapest amongst the big clubs .. rooney did the same think wat did he get 250 000 … 120 000 isnt that bad for a side that hasnt won anyhting for 6 yrs …..
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I hate 2 admit it but u gotta give in 2 his demands… He deserves it u kno.. We cant risk loosin him 2 man u. We need him n u kno it
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nasris intention to move to man u proves the managers (i don’t want to call his name) poor performance and mistreatment to his players against trophy and payment
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Sell him and get hazard and when we play them bet on wilshere break his leg and cry he is english, no card and a national friendly will arranged in his honour.
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Sell him and get hazard and when we play them bet on wilshere break his leg and cry he is english, no card and a national friendly will be arranged in his honour.
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We do this to often waiting until a player has attar in his contract then get practically blackmailed. Arsenal have a poor record in recent times of selling to competitors both domestically and on the continent and this is a major flaw of many wenger has! I’d just say earn the money you little S*$$ here’s 90k but score goals play well and here’s 120k earn the right for it!
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sell nasri if he decided to leave there is a lot of players outside that can replace him n even make more inpact than him, d money is nt too much bt that is not the way he to demand 4 it,n fab worked 4 is own not demanded n moreover fab is currently best midfilder in europe.why all this france players are so usless lyk this flamini did the same thinin 2008.if he want glet him go to any club of is heart.n 4 AW stop using arsenal to build france buy commited player that want to play 4 the club not money lover
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I think Sammi Nasri has proved to us that there is no loyalty as far as players are concerned even when they have been given the opportunity. There is no doubt at all that Nasri would not have been where he is today had it not been for Wenger. Wenger gave him the opportunity and he now wants to turn and bite the hand that feeds him. The best option is to tie him down to a contract like Fabregas and then let him go on a good fee at the end of next season especially if he does not perform because we know that more money does not always translate to better players. But if he does perform, we will have one good player on 120,000 a week. The increase must be pegged on performance. Nasri only had moments of brilliance and although people say he is a lovely player, I believe that he can either be better or that we have actually seen the best of what he can be and if that is the case, its not good enough because he totally lacks consistency that can last a whole season.
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If I were truthful I`d have to admit I follow Arsenal these days but I`m no longer a supporter. This would be true of football in general so I`m not being a traitor.
I`ve been following the Gunners for well over sixty years and most of that time I considered myelf a supporter but money changed all that.
If I were still working there is no way on God`s earth I would pay the ticket prices now being asked out of my meagre income to pay Nasri ,or anyone else, 100K a week to kick a ball around. It`s immoral. Considering we`re told 60% goes in tax means he only has 40K a week to live on.
Poor bastard….let him go….no one with his attitude is worth keeping. The world`s gone mad.
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Sell the little rat, then buy a decent player. Why is everyone banging on about how good he is? He had a great start to the season but part of the reason we won nothing this year was because he was found wanting at the business end of the season. He does not care about arsenal, he’s another one that would be happy to shit on the club as long as he gets his two bob’s worth. He’s a scumbag even contemplating manure at this stage. We need players who have the pride to play for our mighty team, and who have the passion to give everything. Shammy nasri is not one of the players. Time wenger got in some english players with a bit of passion, and forget how much they cost…
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Meet him half way n pay him a 100,000.he sort of deserve it I don’t think he wants to move to united or united r intrested in him either.they should get it over with let’s concentrate on other transfer target
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sell to inter/milan/madrid/barcelona
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let the little one have his way out!It is a time we are now tired of such.Instead of suggesting how good we improve the club,someone is thinking of how more he can earn for doing not-so-pleasing job.We the best midfielders on earth,I so believe,the problem is only other areas,not midfield.Manchester have more good players than him-Nani, Valencia and Anderson;he will sit on the bench till he comes back running.
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I think we should let him go,he doesnt deserve to be at par wt fabregas,thats the best midfielder in the world and the captain of the team,who worked to gt to that point over years of great performances,nt just an half season show.we shouldnt pay that much for an inconsistent player,i say sell him,
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Petit, Vieira, Henry, Hleb, Pires, Anelka, Overmars, Ljungberg, Campbell, Toure, Adebayour need i go on ???? They all had their best years at Arsenal and faded into obscurity afterwards. The only one who did well was Cashley and it was hardly much of a move for a Londoner to go from North London to West London. He’s an example of someone who doesn’t know how easy he has life at Arsenal and he won’t cope anywhere else. The most similar player in recent years was Hleb and look what happenned to him !
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You should all realize Nasri ad Chamakh had a great season until Wenger decided to field RVP and Fabregas instead.
Worst is that with the right formation he can field them all together.
Nasri asking for what Fabregas earns (actually Fab earns more, and played less… is just normal after 3 years. He’s one of the best attacking midfielder, and you all argue about 40 or 30k more? It’s like Wenger refusing to add 2 millions to sign players.
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I agree with charlie..hleb is an example. I remember he left arsenal and said harsh words abt AW and Arsenal. But history made the revenge on him. He is now a refugee at barca. Like jipsy. To and fro movements by loan spells. A total waste in Bir city also. It is a fact that no one vil flourish after leaving arsenal. Flamini is another xample. Im confident of Nasri that he vil sign a contract extension soon. Otherwise he vil be in the queue of flops..
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to be honest £120,000 a week doesn’t sound to bad compared to what Rolando Rooney messi etc he is just demanding a fraction of what they are earning. he could ask for more as he is up their with those players, i say give him the money sell fabregas he is not committed to the club (as shown in his performance’s against barca) and then we will have the funds to give nasri what he wants
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any one who wants nasri to go to Man U , He / she is just as stupid as Arsene Wenger !! do you people really think ? when are we gona learn to keep our best players ? you want to tell me we should let him go and start rebulding Our team ? till when guys …. let him go and see what he’s capable of doin come next season !!!!
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Pay his wages, sign top quality players, show him that we are intent on winning trophies…..footballers need to see the club is ambitious, that’s why the players at arsenal are getting disheartened because they see Chelsea signing Torres and David luiz, Liverpool signing Suarez and Carroll, man utd signing top players in the past, and arsenal signing 2nd rate squad players like squillaci, denilson and so on…so I say give nasri what he wants and show him and cesc that we are going to be ambitious and show a real intention of winning some trophies and not over achieving like we have done for the last 6 years, because in my personal opinion that’s what we have done, our team is nowhere near as good as we where the last time we won a trophy, so finishing within the CL spots has been the best we could of asked for the last 6 years.
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How huge is our transfer budget? Pretty massive, and I for one would like to see a tiny bit of it spent on keeping key players, like Nasri. Especially seeing as wenger will never spend even half our budget.
You guys don’t seem to realise that Nasri in all likelihood doesn’t want to go to Man U, but he and his agent are not stupid, he has chosen the name of a rival club, who are more successful (like it or not), who could pay him more, and who would be prepared to buy him. He could hate Manchester and everything about the scum, but he has done his homework and this makes his threat credible, meaning Wenger has to listen to his demands. There is no other reason this is the club he is being linked with, it could be some Spanish or Italian team, the reasons would be the same.
As someone said before, rooney did this to the tune of £250k at man united, if we’re getting away with less than half that for Nasri I’m happy. Given he’s probably the 3rd best player at the club (I’m talking sale value here so no arguments) after Fabregas and RVP, it’s fine to put him on wages that high, IMO.
Football is a market economy, and Arsenal don’t pay the going rate. What do players get for not earning the going rate? Certainly not trophies. You can argue all you like about Arsenal being the best team to play at, I’m sure some players play for what they do at Arsenal because Arsene was the first manager to give them a decent first team run, and he made them grow, but there is only so much of a wage deficit you can expect players to stand, and IMO, it’s too high. Pay the man his money, and do it fast, before he gets any serious ideas about leaving.
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The other thing to add is that, who is in charge of making sure Nasri signs a new deal before the last year of his contract, so that he isn’t in a position to do this to us?
That’s right, the manager.
The only reason Nasri is in a position to do this is because Wenger didn’t do this a year ago. The money should come out of Wenger’s wages!
If we’d got Nasri to sign a contract extension before this season just gone, where he played very well, we’d have probably got away with offering him lower wages anyway. And surely the sensible thing is to offer the contracts earlier, seeing as players like him, at his age, only get better (and thus more valuable), not worse.
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OPTION 5 …. Arsenal Fans can realise that Anyone earning over 50k a week has to pay 60% Tax.
OPTION 6 …. Arsenal Fans intelligent enough to understand Option 5 can realise that 60% for 90k is TAX of £54,000 -> Yes, Nasri will be taking home £36,000 per week after tax … the equivalent of a reserve player.
It disgusts me hearing fans speak of greed while being this ignorant.
The 120K Nasri wants is very reasonable for a player of his worth. He’ll only be taking home £50,000 per week – which is better than the £36,000 he’ll be have if he accepts Arsenal’s 90k offer.
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It amazes me when people beg a player to stay at Arsenal. I compare Nasri with Hleb. I tell you both of them have something in common; talent and greed.
If Nasri wants to leave, let him go. I personally do believe no one is irreplaceable.
I think Wenger should let him go or just let him sit in the reserves next season.
People should stop begging these greedy, overated and overpaid players to stay because where their treasures are so also the hearts.
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now c’mon don’t be so pessimistic guys! he’s just bluffing to get as much money as he can but i’m sure at the end of the day,no matter who wins, he will stay a gunner.and is there anything wrong with wanting more money? he’s just trying.what worries me is Cesc’s silence,i think he’s leaving!
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Give him the fuc-ing money!!!!!!!!!!!! And sell him for 40 in 2 years if he carrys on being a yearns queen!, are they fuc-ing thick at arsenal or wat! Since David Dean left our club has gone to shit!!!!!!!!! If arsenal let him go on a cheap or for free next year I will never step foot in that stadium again!!!!!
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Sack the lot of them
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OPTION 6: AW takes a pay cut and it be used to finance Nasir’s wage demands instead!!!!
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I don,t think I have ever read so much bollocks in my life!
You lot believe everything you read in the papers and on the net and most is made up to generate money and sales of papers etc.
Nasri has distanced himself from the reported comments and how on earth can anyone say that we know he is after £120k?
As for the rest of you, call yourself Goomners, you should be ashamed!
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EHR…Yaya Toure takes 185,00k a week. That is 105k more. Nasri has every RIGHT to demand more, as he is arguably in the top 15 midfielder’s in the world!!!No big players want to come to Arsenal because their is not enough money to motivate them in the long run and FACT is that they could be paid nearly double else where.
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stake the little turd to the armoury forecourt – and let the birds have his eyes…
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option zero, let him go he has no fort if Arsenal win something am sure he will never thing of going in the first place am sure his using this contract issued to run to where he can win trophy, don’t you know winning trophy in players career is important than anything look at cesc staying for 6yrs now nothing to show for it, i pity him only world cup with spain national team nothing more at club level. Wenger should change his way and STOP blaming the player
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come on everyone cant you see the whole united saga was created on purpose. sure he might think of playing for them but that cant be his true intentions.
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Please if there is chances don’t allow players to move out from arsenal team,actually it needed the players to be together just for a long time,they make money to club then pay them money
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i dont have to ask if avatar is a jamaican.lmao…nasri should not be sold but i really dont think he deserves so much money, work ourt a deal say about 98,000.Get falcao and william and two top class defenders!!!
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in response to the ‘dumb cat’….
do you really think they have their salaries paid into lloyds or barclays every month like the rest of us…
tax avoidance is simple – OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS
as close as the isle of man or jersey not withstanding the cayman islands….
coffee smelling time for the puss methinks
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i think its important that wenger sit on a round table with the likes of fabregas, Nasir, Wilshere and other big players.tell them his plans and how committed he is to signing new players. probably it will work and Nasir will stay. every player is desirous of winning trophies but if a player knows he is good and he is not winning trophies, then he begins to think of his pocket. he does not want to be loosing both ends if am not wining trophies i should be earning more pay.
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give him the 120,000… it is time for arsenal to start paying like one of top 10 clubs in the world, or haven’t we gotten there yet?
IF he scores 20 goals, and make his fantastic plays then it would be worth it…. at the end it is just 2 million more,
would you rather sell him for 15-20 or resign him for 2 million and establish a price of 35-45…. I find everything positive because he really is a player worth to keep…
option # 5: keep our policies: sell our starts, pay cheap salaries (for a top club), remain trophieless for another 6 seasons and keep developing some youth talent.
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wenger should should sign better players. this will prove some seriousness on his part and that he is committed to winning trophies. the big boys will stay back.
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not to say that paying 80,000 a week to rosicky is nothing outregous….
or 60,000 to Almunia
or 50,000 to denilson
60,000 to squillaci
60,000 to diaby
that it is not outrageous at all…. what a fantastic salry cap we have… right????
Perhaps some fans need to understand words such as bias, maths and opportunity cost…
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Ah that Wenger, he can be all economics and professor…but he does not know how to negotiate.
For me its clearly: demand a higher so we can meet at the middle, I mean thats the way business as usual is, right?
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Nasri is one of the potential players Arsenal has to maintain them. Pay him that money otherwise he goes to a club that will pay him better.Arsenal doesnt motivate her players well that’s why big and experienced players are not ready playing in this club. The management has to work on that otherwise all players will be taken by other clubs and providing them with better payment.
Also, Wenger has to resign for making Arsenal just participating in football competitions with no trophes at all.IN FACT Wenger has nothing to change the club to win the trophs, all his skills are now outdated as they proved failure to win the games.He has reached a point of no return so he has to go off the club and let Nasri stays in a club.
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like rooney,he doesn’t want to leave, he just wants more money.
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Simple, either we sell Fabregas or we sell Nasri. We can’t afford them both, but we cannot afford to lose them both. Decide what you’re doing with Cesc then work out what to do with Samir!
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there is simply too many money grabbing degenerates playing football these days and although Nasri is a gr8 player the fact is
CESC – been at club from age 15/16, rose through ranks to become 1 of gr8st midfielders in the game and club captain hence £120k
NASRI – been at club couple of yrs and has had brilliant half season and thinks he is owed same as Cesc. Yes give him raise but £100k at most
But the real weasels are the AGENTS ….”FACT”….
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you simply cannot say he deserves as much as Cesc as he simply hasn’t given anywhere near as much to the club and is just not as good as Cesc
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Arsenal1again your absolutely right. Players will no doubt want more wages as a result of the increase in tax. I don’t blame nasri for trying it! The worrying thing about all this is that I think we all now know nasri is not that loyal. I remember when he first signed for us he mentioned arsenal is a good club to improve as a player before moving to a bigger club!
Why did wenger not get him to sign the contract in the earlier parts of the season when he was happy and in form! It’s been a complete cock-up really and once we have another summer of trying to hang on to some of our best players!
It does seem wenger and arsenal are really struggling when buying players and re-negotiating contracts, other clubs don’t seem to have the level of difficulty that we have!
I really hope I’m surprised this summer and some real money is invested in quality players!
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Greed boy who has not won a club a single trophy. Wonder how much he would want to earn should he win us trophies
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Option 6 park him on the bench in the reserve team.
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In response to ‘gary’ who seems mistaken about offshore banks ….
What money are you talking about? The money received by the players is already taxed before they get it, like any other non self-employed worker in the UK. He is an employee of Arsenal FC. The employer deducts his tax and gives it to the inland revenue.
I guess everyone in the UK is as dumb as me, because otherwise we would all be having our wages paid in offshore bank accounts. No, I’m not going down to your level to start insulting you back. Your post does that for me.
Any player earning over 50k in the UK is paying 60% tax. What I said above is how it is, and it highlights exactly why Nasri is NOT being greedy. It also tells you were the money is going, the money we get from transfers which isn’t being used to buy players. It’s used to pay the REAL amount being earned by players.
Nasri just wants a bigger slice of pie since it’s going to have all the filling ripped out before it reaches his mouth. The inland revenue is forcing players to leave the shores of the UK to earn in a year what they would at Arsenal in 3 years. Only United, City and Chelsea could negate the tax by paying him 120k+ …. or we can too by using the money gained from selling a player.
You believe what you want Gary.
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hi cat
these players are not individuals – they are corporate entities
any monies that the entity raises through endorsements – appearances – image rights – television and even heaven forbid playing football are paid to a corporation
which is sited off offshore
how the salary cake is apportioned and to where and in what quantity is a matter purely of conjecture
i don’t just believe this to be true…it is
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this situation is simple to solve and very similar to the rooney situation…
here’s what will happen
arsenal will agree to the ridiculous 120,000 a week demands from Nasri.
by doing this they will extend his contract for another 5 years or so therefore he can no longer leave for free..
however in year or 2 the bids will start and he will be sold for 40 or 50 million..
now thats not a bad business plan…
(the same will probly happen to rooney)
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give him one bench for one year
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Ino he is bein greedy askin for the extra 30k bt lets be honest in modern football he would be offered that easily by any of the top 5 clubs in the country… Its a shame there isnt any real commitment anymore bt lets be honeat in football it isnt stupid amount of money we would hav to pay that to sign someone of the same quality anyway….
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If we give him a new 3 or 4 year contract for 120K pw that is only 1.5 million extra for the next year. Then we can flog him next summer for double what he is worth today. If we don’t give him what he wants now it will cost more in the long run to replace him.
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Nasri just want 2 see new signing first & then he decides on his future. I WANT HIM 2 STAY WITH ARSENAL.
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