Comments on: Man United 2-1 Arsenal: Same Old Story from Gunners

By: The Scout

The Scout — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:43:43 +0000

Found the info on top earners and have posted it here:

http://www.epltalk.com/top-money-earners/1843

By: Top Money Earners | EPL Talk

Top Money Earners | EPL Talk — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:43:15 +0000

[...] reading a thread here on the site, I did a bit of research to find information on the top paid players. No one on Arsenal’s [...]

By: tampasoccer

tampasoccer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:43:52 +0000

How Arse managed to lose yesterday, is beyond me.
They dominated the game for at least an hour. Gallas: what a leader, huh? He should go. We all remember how he reacted to Clichy’s mistake in stoppage time v. Birmingham. His handball yesterday was idiotic, to say the least.
Eboue can not and should not play as a midfielder. Flamini is sorely missed: yes. Gilberto is too old: he committed the faul for the winning goal.
Walcott: I can see Wenger wants to use him sparingly and provide pace for the later stages of the game, but I believe he will be more than a part player next season.
Adebayor’s goal was a blatant handball, but he should have had a hat-trick.
United is on course of winning big this season, but can Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, Anderson, Carick mask the team’s deficiancies? they miss Vidic bad. Brown is attrocious. Pique’s debut was ok, at best, but you can’t expect much. Rio was all over the place, and almost scored an own goal.
All in all, it was a very strange game yesterday. United got lucky: very lucky. But, Wenger must take responsiblity for his team’s collapse since February. Maybe the teams needs a shrink…

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:39:06 +0000

I think Arsenal have a self-imposed salary cap of 50,000 per week. Only special players (such as Henry in recent seasons and now Fabregas get more). The difficulty is that once Flamini is put up to 80,000 or so, then what is Hleb worth, then Adebayor etc. It shifts the bar for every player in the squad. This is why Wenger plays hard ball on it. And to be honest, Flamini, though outstanding this year & integral to Arsenal’s best moments during the season has only produced one outstanding year. On the other hand, he would leave on a free and to replace him with similar quality would cost up to 10 million so the economics speaks for itself.

I think both sides are playing hard on the negotiation (as most commercial contracts are) but I think it will sort itself out. Perhaps a long term performance based contract?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:51:48 +0000

Wenger has already said he will look to buy one experience footballer in the next transfer window. I agree with the notions that Arsenal have enough quality but depth is an obvious issue. I wonder what Wenger will do if indeed he does lose Flamini. I rate Lassana Diarra very highly… i don’t know whether a loan deal to Pompey would have been a better result rather than selling him…