Arsenal to pay Willian £220,000 a week despite staff cuts2

I see Ozil has been giving interviews this week trying to justify not taking a 12.5% drop in wages from his £350,000 a week because it was quite short notice and "I'm not the only one to reject it." Pathetic really.
 
Nathan9719972 said:
As bad as it sounds, staff don’t win you silverware, higher calibre of player do however and Willian is far better than the vast majority in that Arsenal team
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Arsenal used the covid situation as an excuse to lay off 55 low level staff.

Its not about having a new forward on £220k a week or keeping on the 55. They can absolutely afford both. Paying the wages they do to willian and ozil, and aubaumayang about to sign a new improved deal says as much.

Shame on them
 
Stuart_WATP said:
Disgraceful..Mesut Ozil bleeding them dry too (although if I was in his position id be doing the same )
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Giving him that new deal a few years ago was lunacy. He doesn’t kick his own arse for 75% of a season and will turn it on when it doesn’t matter. It was clear for all to see at that time that this was the case.

Though the blame must lie with Wenger. The way he enabled so many players to coast during the last 10 years of his reign has set the club back a long way.
 
Oduwa said:
His family back in Brazil who all grew up as Chelsea fans will be disgusted.
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I'm sure they would if he went from Flamengo to Fluminense.

I get its about money, but youd think after 7 years at a club you'd show a little respect for the fans and at least move to a club in a different city. .
 
davyloyal said:
What a gesture it would be if he donated one week’s wages to ensure around 8-10 of those staff kept their jobs for another year, by which time we should be over the worst of the pandemic. And then encouraged other top earners at the club to do likewise, thus saving all jobs.
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I think this is what gets me, it’s the ease of which that much of the debt in the U.K. could be eased significantly if a few of the players were to not take a weeks wage or a few of the wealthiest earners in many industries were to help out.

I am far from a socialist but it seems we’re at a point where the country is facing a real difficult period, families will loose homes etc and there’s people with astronomical wealth who can just disregard it.

I realise these people will be paying huge amounts of tax but this all feels wrong. Willians and Ozils wage for a month keeps 55 people and families in a job for a year.
 
davyloyal said:
What a gesture it would be if he donated one week’s wages to ensure around 8-10 of those staff kept their jobs for another year, by which time we should be over the worst of the pandemic. And then encouraged other top earners at the club to do likewise, thus saving all jobs.
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shouldn't be down to the players tho
the club have acted shamefully here & should never be forgotten for it
redundancies should only be when there is clear financial trouble - splashing out on a Chelsea reject for obscene money is not an indication of that
 
A football club would have zero staff without players, while it doesn't look good, that's just the way it is and that's the going rate for decent players frankly.
 
Arsenal are where Liverpool were 10 years ago, Massive wages on players in the twilight of their career (see Joe Cole).

Willian is a very good player but at 32 he’s not going to change Arsenal into contenders over night.
 
Highlighting the utter lunacy that is the English premiership.
Astonishing figures for an elite footballer right at the upper echelons in the sport (Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, lewandowski) let alone someone a bracket below the above and approaching the end of his career.
 
As per usual this is a headline grabbing wage. He's getting £100k a week basic, then more for bonuses & stuff, probably related to things like Champions League qualification, appearances etc. Because he's a free transfer, like most other free transfers, he gets a nice wee signing on fee rather than going to the other club. It's done all the time, but because Arsenal are in the headlines just now it's been painted bad.
 
dereksmallsloyal said:
Arsenal are a complete shambles. Competing with Manchester United to be worst run big club in England.
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Valeloyal said:
Arsenal are totally leaderless and clueless, they have zero forward planning and seem to throw money at players who are entering the later stages of their career. They clearly had no succession planning for Wenger leaving and held on to him far too long.
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Sir Alex was right.

Once you're 30 you get big money but one year contacts.

Giggs went one year at a time for years.

This could blow up in their face as the player knows this is his last big contact and he won't be trying a leg in a year.
 
Yes, but he contributes to poverty stricken children in Brazil.

That should guarantee him hero worship on here now.
 
dereksmallsloyal said:
You answered it - complete lack of strategic consistency on the football front. Same issue as Manchester United. Fine if you’re interested in their commercial operations as opposed to the football. Liverpool have shown you can do both.
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It depends how you review it. Arsenal are way down the table in terms of chance creation. Arteta acknowledges that they have players that can finish chances such as Aubameyang & Lacazette, but have a lack of creativity. They have a chance to get a player who was 7th in the table for the full league for chance creations. If you have a chance to get that player, for a reasonable wage, and a modest signing on fee, that help keep the majority of your funds for signing a centre back and a centre midfielder, is that not good squad management?
 
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Stewrfc said:
Absolute farce that so many people get made redundant and they then go and spend this on a players wages.

The whole Financial Fair Play needs reviewed, if a club can't afford to pay their non-playing staff but can afford that, questions should be asked.
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They could afford to pay their staff, they just decided to go a different route in regards to scouting and player recruitment.
 
Arsenal are a riot , but tbh these players it’s quite literally 1 in a million make it to achieve these sorts of wages , and they sacrifice a big part of their childhood to attain this .
 
Danger Zone said:
Yeah I’m sorry but it’s a really poor show. The worst bit is knowing those first team players know about the situation and are seemingly happy to sit and collect their own fortune without each of them dropping a crumb to support the folk who’ve been shafted.
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I don’t blame him. I blame arsenal. They should simply not sign any player if they have to lay other staff off. Even paying him £200k/week would easily pay for 10 staff on £50k/year with the money saved.

as for them buying, yet another small, forward thinking player....when will they ever address the really issue?
 
KGR98 said:
And quite rightly the club should stop vilifying players who want to see out the contracts that were offered to them
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Yeah. Why should players put in any effort once their contract is signed. Just sit back and take the money like Andy Webster did at Ibrox and Bobo Balde did at the paedodome.

The fools that pay for STs, subcription sports channels and over priced replica strips will pick up the tab.
 
Papasmurf said:
I don’t blame him. I blame arsenal. They should simply not sign any player if they have to lay other staff off. Even paying him £200k/week would easily pay for 10 staff on £50k/year with the money saved.

as for them buying, yet another small, forward thinking player....when will they ever address the really issue?
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Oh I don’t blame the player at all. The blame is with the club, though personally I don’t know how the current first team playing squad can watch that unfold and not offer to help.

He’s a good player, but at that age it’s not a player that’s going to turn things around for them. Despite parting ways with Wenger a few years ago now they still seem to be very much stuck in his shadow.
 
LOL 133 said:
Yeah. Why should players put in any effort once their contract is signed. Just sit back and take the money like Andy Webster did at Ibrox and Bobo Balde did at the paedodome.

The fools that pay for STs, subcription sports channels and over priced replica strips will pick up the tab.
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It's the club that offer the contracts and as far as I'm concerned Ozil said he would play and give 100% just the club taking the huff with him.
 
Free transfers often manage to bargain their wages up but it does seem a lot. Especially as he plays in the same position as Pepe, who they paid a fortune for last season.
 
I've read it's £100k per week plus a £10M signing on bonus. Not bad if you can get it!

Like it or not, what they pay players has no bearing on other jobs at the club. Fans aren't currently allowed to attend games which has made alot of positions redundant for the time being.
 
KGR98 said:
Tv companies give Arsenal the money it's up to them to use it right and not offer Ott contracts
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And its people like you that give the money to the tv companies to give it to Arsenal to use anyway they like.

The best laugh of the day was Ozil mentioning his family. That's the standard response from footballers when anyone questions their ridiculous salaries.

Ozil, Willian and Rashford should chip in and buy some sandwiches for those children that are starving in the UK. Im sure they could afford some cheap cola too from ASDA.
 
Covid was just a convenient excuse for Arsenal to get rid of staff they felt they didn't need.

They've made a large number of redundancies in their scouting department, and this has been rumoured to have been planned for quite some time.
 
uneasydaz said:
Willian will earn an astonishing £220,000 a week at Arsenal after he completes his free transfer from Chelsea, with the contract expected to be signed off by Sunday.

Sportsmail can reveal a deal in principle has been agreed for some time and the 32-year-old Brazilian will be rewarded handsomely.

Willian’s basic weekly salary will be lower than at Chelsea, but once a huge signing-on fee is factored in — along with loyalty payments and other bonuses throughout the three-year contract’s duration — the staggering mark will be hit.

The vast sums involved raise questions after Arsenal’s announcement last week that they are proposing to make 55 members of staff redundant.

Insiders say Willian’s unveiling was put back because of the ‘poor optics’ if it had followed hot on the heels of the job-cuts statement. Arsenal deny that is the case.

Nevertheless, to commit to spending what could end up being around £35million on a veteran player shortly after the redundancy proposal is bound to go down badly. The deal is also set to feature an option for a fourth year.

Sources added that only an unexpected turn of events would stop the deal being concluded this weekend, meaning Willian — who won the Premier League twice in a glittering Chelsea spell — can shortly start training with his Arsenal team-mates ahead of the new campaign, which starts on September 12.

He would have got nowhere near that money at Chelsea,’ a source explained.

‘The signing-on fee reflects that it is a free transfer and if he sees out the duration it’s a great deal for him.’
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This just simply highlights, what’s Stinking with English Football, and football in general. Just remember the bottom line is their only kicking a Baw around, over rated, Egos.
 
Coplandbear said:
Ozil will sit tight and see that contract out.
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Fair play to him, if someone is daft enough to give you a massive deal like that you're not going to simply walk away from it. I actually think he is a much, much better player than he is given credit for. It's just a pity he plays for a piss poor side in Arsenal.
 
It’s an absolute embarrassment that all these multi millionaire footballers are happy for normal people to lose their job while they rake in millions.

I understand it’s them that are getting offered the money and no one would knock it back. Thats fine however, how can any decent human-being stand back and watch normal people lose their jobs.

Hope they win what they normally do - %^*& all.
 
Danger Zone said:
Oh I don’t blame the player at all. The blame is with the club, though personally I don’t know how the current first team playing squad can watch that unfold and not offer to help.

He’s a good player, but at that age it’s not a player that’s going to turn things around for them. Despite parting ways with Wenger a few years ago now they still seem to be very much stuck in his shadow.
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they did try to help by taking a pay cut but the club went ahead with job losses anyway.
 
He’s actually on a lower basic weekly wage than he was at Chelsea. The article has added in his signing on fee and potential bonuses and added it on to make a sensationalist headline.
 
From a football perspective it doesn’t make sense either

if he was 27-28 then aye get 5 years out of him at top dollar but 32 Na better value out there
 
Football has obviously changed with the times, but the Arsenal that our club had shares in are a totally different club today. They used to have a bit of class about them and a proud tradition. Although the EPL in general is just one big tourist business league now anyway.
 
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