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"Mercenary want away signs improved deal to make sure he will provide 100% until the Summer when he can leave"
Player power lol. Takes them months to sort out Rice's contract. Takes them 3 weeks and a tantrum for another and he' still wants out in summer.
I would ask that along with gagging and binding his brother he refrains from thumping his chest, pointing at the badge, making love heart shapes with his hands after scoring a goal. Perhaps he can practise the 'Alan Shearer'....
I will of course celebrate along with him.... minus any running of course.
For some reason I actually feel worse about this Arnie situation than I ever remember doing about Payet.....
Probably just me, but I’m fuming
Our best player is staying and, if he leaves in the summer, will most likely cost more money than we would have got now.
Maybe it's because Arnautovic is the first footballer in the world to use another offer to get himself a salary increase?
No, that can't be it...
In fact, I'm sure there are plenty of us Average Joes on here who can say they've used another job offer to get themselves a salary increase during their years of work (I certainly have, though that wasn't my intention, and I don't think it was Arnie's, incidentally).
How on earth Arnie can be compared with Payet is beyond me. The only thing I can see is that Payet was, for reasons completely beyond me, getting a free ride because people were using the snake's refusal to play as a stick to beat a board they already didn't like. Payet was being spared flak from some quarters because it was a great opportunity to blame the board for lack of investment, instead of blaming the snake for REFUSING TO PLAY.
Oh, and there were unsubstantiated reports from 'ITKs' that 'family issues' were behind Payet's complete and utter disrespect of our club and the fans who worshipped him.
But the idea of Arnie wanting to quadruple his salary to potentially secure his family's futures is unacceptable, and it must be about personal greed instead.
And Pelle and Noble must have been lying when they said that Arnie hadn't refused to play, and that he promised to give 100% (even if that wasn't strictly a promise Arnie could make, being human and therefore distracted at the possibility of having to relocate to the other side of the world).
Personally, I'm just very happy Arnie is still here, even if it's until the summer. He's our best player and we need him.
Good point. I have no idea if he has or not. It's probably a safe assumption, but nothing confirmed, as far as I know.
He came out and said he didn’t want to play and get the move....
He did more in his time with us than Arnie will ever do (in my opinion) ....
Arnie and his brother have manipulated the situation, he’s made himself essentially unavailable for two key games which we lost all the while being quoted as giving 100%, We needs him at the weekend.
Both of them were “wrong” to a degree, but these comments and Video by Arnie “being back” - I almost threw up.
We’re a million miles apart on this, so I will take the very unusual step of ending this right now, I respect your opinion, please respect mine, your happy he’s here until the summer, I couldn’t care less if he never pulled the shirt on again tbh.
If he earns his wages like the others then that’s fine, I’m just not sure he will fully heal his relationship with the fanbase, which up until Jan was everything you’d want it to be
;ok
Think it’s incentive / bonuses plus you have to give another year - PL rule
Obviously we get the buyout bit which is good makes it very clear
Arnie was dropped by Pellegrini and has since committed himself (and has been ome of our most important and driven players this season before the initial bid)
How anyone can compare the 2 is beyond me
Did you go anywhere then Marko? If so please share where?
Payet was bang out of order but he didn’t seem to be playing these games with the fans
Anyway it’s done now, get behind the team and all that hopefully he can shoot us up the league of “nothing to play for”
;ok
I know my football me.
Wouldn’t be happy going to watch us if Carroll was starting again.
My Monday night got a lot better.
Selfish but simple.
He can win, act like a professional, do it in private not public via an employee or Instagram and keep your head in the right place and train properly so you don’t miss two key games both of which were lost
Just my opinion, of course
This is an 18 year old kid. Quietly hands in a transfer request, says nothing. Plays against Sheffield Wednesday and is (by many accounts) the star of the show. They've said they aren't selling him, and he's still said nothing.
Arnie should have quietly said to the club he wants to leave, and then run the game against Bournemouth and/or Wimbledon, regardless of whether or not the club want to sell him or not.
Ramsey is another example. It really isn’t that hard to want something but continue to remain focused on the present until you get what you’d like in the future.