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Originally Posted by denphone
Well with the top 6 or 7 club English clubs l just cannot see that happening as the Premier League has just signed a £3 billion TV contract plus there are the riches of Champions league football as well and yes maybe Walcott is not worth 100k a week but the reality is the other big clubs will pay that without hesitation thus Arsenal lose another good player because these refuse to pay the going rate for these type of players.
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The other big clubs are either funded by billionaires or don't care about debt. Very few football clubs make money. Arsenal do but if you take out property deals then it's wafer thin, they don't have a big margin to cut into. It was about £1 million last year. 10 weeks wages for Theo.
Arsenal refuse to pay it because they can't. There isn't any point saying 'other clubs will' because it's not the same. They can restructure their wage bill but in such an event players like Theo still can't be offered 100k, then so many other players would want it. It's not sustainable at all.
You can't deal with income/outcome as an abstraction that can be willed away otherwise you lose a player. Arsenal may well slide away down the table. What else can they do? Everyone else seems to work in the fairy land of infinite money.