Arsenal striker tells club to increase player salaries
by stresster on May 29th, 2008
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Robin Van Persie has been crocked for huge chunks of the season, yet that hasn’t stopped him calling for Arsenal to up the ante as far as player wages are concerned. The Dutchman is a leetle bit concerned that the club’s salary structure will stop them retaining the services of Emmanuel Adebayor and Cesc Fabregas in the long-term, despite landing the signature of Samir Nasri in the past couple of days. The Guardian report RVP’s collective wage demands.
“They should make sure that these players stay,” said Van Persie, aware that the club operate a strict salary structure. “Arsenal have a policy in which they will not go over a specific amount of money when agreeing the salary of a player. They won’t pay enormous amounts of money. I think that they should go to a higher level of salary.
“If you want to keep the group together, you have to keep them happy. If you are 27 or 28 I can understand that you would make the decision to go elsewhere if you can earn three or four times as much. If that sort of money was also paid at Arsenal I’m sure that person would stay.”
“It is the principle,” said Van Persie. “It is very important that Arsenal keep these guys. This group is unique. If a number of them leave it will be different. I think of myself as an Arsenal man but Arsenal should also try to make sure that we all grow together.”
Should Arsenal really try to match their European counterparts as far as wages are concerned? It’s clear that the North London club like to ensure that they balance the books and don’t operate at the sort of loss you might find at Stamford Bridge or the San Siro. They also don’t want to ‘do a Chelsea’ and have a rich oligarch pumping money into the club willy-nilly. Therefore, does RVP have a point with the above comments or should he let his football do the talking?
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Tagged Under: adebayor, Arsenal FC, arsene wenger, Chelsea FC, fabregas, robin van persie, samir nasri
Joe - May 29th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Comon, if this artical is true, the man speaks truth i tell ya that.
Maka - May 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Ok.salaries are a way to go nowheredays but for the love of the game I thinkl RVP shouldn,t think about how much he,ll earn in another club this really makes you loose focus and after that its a down ward trend look at Henry am sure he went to Barca coz of the cash plus the stars who are playing there,the result:he’s a nobody…
Anonymous - May 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
You don’t need to match the counterparts to pay your players, you just need to match their ability and the prospect of how much they’ll contribute to pay them. When you overpay a player, it results in complacency. There’s only one Chelsea, and don’t compare it with them.
When was the last time we ever won something substantial? To be honest, put the FA away, we are actually 4 seasons without EPL and CL titles. We got close to the EPL this season, right until end of February. The 4 points gap in the end isn’t really the true story that reflects how hard we fight for the title. We gave up towards the end.
Beautiful football is not always the case in Arsenal. Those who’ve always watched our games will realise that without Hleb & fabregas, or rosicky & fabregas, our game was never beautiful. with rosicky out for a long time, thus it’s only Hleb and Fabregas most of the time creating the play. Fabregas can’t do it alone. Read the game well and you’ll realise.
How does this relate to pay?
When you pay your players well, you make them happy, i’m talking about well, not overpaid or underpaid. You will also attract quality players to join the club. To be realistic, football is also life. It’s like in a corporate world, “we all want to be paid well and unconsciously we do compare with others”.
There have been so many quality players who left us, it’s not because they aren’t paid well or they went for money, because of the fact that we don’t attract quality players. We build them, we train them well, then you tie them up in a contract equal to their pay. it’s HR after all. That’s what our management lacked. When you provide training to an employee, you tie them up.