Arshavin is costing Arsenal by TS
He cost Arsenal a reported £13m to bring in from Zenit. Wenger couldn’t have been happier signing the player in the last hour of the transfer window and beating off the likes of Barcelona for his signature. When he arrived, the first couple of games he played for the Gunners, everyone loved him. Fan’s cheered his name, magazines printed covers of his face and everyone was hailing him as Arsenal’s next big thing. And who could ever forget those four goals he slotted in at Anfield?
Fast forward three years and the Russian has hit an all time low by not even being included in the 18 man squad that traveled to France in yesterday’s Champions League match. No reports of an injury have surfaced so one has to assume that Arshavin has been dropped from the bench. The scary thing is that at £80k per week, Arshavin is the highest paid player in the Arsenal squad.
What’s happened here is very strange in that, even tempted with a free transfer, no other club is willing to pay that type of wage to a player who is 31 years old and Arshavin seems very happy to sit and collect his paycheck every week. Arshavin’s contract expires in June next year and I can’t see the point of not playing him.
What’s effectively happened now is that Arshavin doesn’t travel with the squad, doesn’t play in matches, and gets paid £4.2m a year to basically stay fit and attend some functions. Not a bad gig, if you ask me. Arsenal and Arshavin are thus at a stalemate until next year but should Wenger use him or should Arsenal just run his contract down and cut their losses?
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