I’m lukewarm on the move but that take is ridiculous. He wants to play in the World Cup, he needs to be playing every week. He’s not a guaranteed starter at Madrid. He is a guaranteed starter here.
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Any club who wants Jesus is going to have to pay £150k/w or more for him.
Where ever he goes it will be a “pay day”, be that Madrid or anywhere else.
Özil and Sanchez also moved for money rather than pure footballing reasons, otherwise they would never have come to Arsenal.
If we want a higher calibre of player, the only thing to entice them is a good pay packet. Not rocket science lad
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If he wanted to play for Sporting reasons, he’d join Madrid’s bench instead of starting for Arsenal?
(Some) people love to use the Willian transfer as the barometer, but wouldn’t use Sanchez as a case study.
Jesus could be interested solely in the financial benefit of joining Arsenal. However, his age, profile, fitness level and the fact it’s a World Cup year would indicate money isn’t driving him more than desire to improve.
Arsenal arent the only club that can offer that. But I’ve not seen anyone besides Arsenal linked with him, again most likely because we can afford to pay city 40m and double his wages.
Look at him shift the goalposts now and say if he isn’t good enough to start for Madrid then why are we interested? 
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Yup a big salary is a part of why they came but we also were qualifying for CL football back then and were a top 4 club, so idk doyg. Things are different now. Stepping down to play in the EL on massive wages is the worry. As I said there are plenty of young strikers who a move like that would make sense in their career paths. This one doesnt for me.
Where would he move to get CL exposure and increased playing time?
City - no
Liverpool - no
Chelsea - no
Spurs - maybe
Bayern - maybe
Dortmund - maybe
Milan - yes
Inter - no
Juve - no
PSG - no
OM - maybe
Milan is really the only one I can see as a place where he’d get CL and more playing time but probably not a raise. It’s not like we’re paying him Willian money. The fee is ridiculous but he doesn’t set it.
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Any young, hyped up striker out there right now is either going to cost us £50M+/and over £120K per week. What’s the problem?
Also, how dare Saliba for wanting to prove himself at Arsenal when he could push for a loan move with Marseille again and play CL footy. Amateur.
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More of me quibbling with his contract situation. IIRC the initial rumors had the fee at like 25-30m which made me optimistic we could snatch him up and still go very big on another striker.
Everybody (well not everybody!) wants to becan accountant for some reason. Jesus is the top bracket of talent of player we can attract. Who cares if we’re overpaying him slightly? What if he actually is thst good? Then, we’ve done a good job in tying a 250k a week striker to less than 200k.
Would some of you guys not liking the reported fees for Jesus prefer to buy a 25m striker instead on 110k a week? Why?
Laca out with Jesus in is a huge upgrade that costs us 10k a week in wages.
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I don’t think any of us want to be accountants but that’s how the club is being run.
I couldn’t give a stuff how much a club that I don’t own pays a player that’s getting us results. £100k p/w for Nketiah, good luck to the lad. £200k p/w for Jesus? Seems like a bargain when you look at some of the contracts we’ve handed out to Chelsea Pensioners and other assorted sulky attackers recently.
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I just don’t get why some fans care how much our club is offering a player in salary. It follows the clubs narrative from the Kronke family and board that profit and cutting the wage bill equals success.
It’s important to have a sustainable wage scale for plenty of valid reasons, most importantly the budget is finite.
Wage has to correlate to a player’s ability in line with market rates imo. I have no issue paying Jesus a big wage but we want to avoid later Wenger era squad management with EL quality players on CL wages
Don’t think cutting the wage bill was meant to be the end point. It was about clearing deadwood and then saying we had room in the wage bill to make smarter buys than we did for about 5 years prior to last summer.
Gabriel Jesus on 190k per week obviously comes up here, in terms of did we really clear the wage bill to add back on with this type of player. Unfortunately he might be the best we can get because of the market for forwards and us not getting in the CL, but investing in a 25 year old is still better than getting some 30 odd year old as we did previously from Chelsea.
I get it, we’re committing 290k/W (Somewhere around that range) to two forwards no one is certain will be productive for us. Which I hope they are…because if they’re not…
Compared to 600kpw on Auba and Laca…
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How much should tge main two, young, Premier League strikers cost in salary per week?
Sigh. I will kindly direct you to the part where ‘no one is certain will be productive for us’ portion of my post.
Also if you’re going to bring them up, look at the timeframe Auba signed that contract and his record up till that point.
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No, I hear you. I’m just trying to think about the money stuff in the context of reality. We know KSE are going to have us on a limited budget and we also know that they invested heavily last summer but not last winter. They had Mikel front up publicly and say that the reason we didn’t invest is because we wanted elite quality.
So they want elite quality…but on a budget?
That’s why I have some misgivings about the rumored moves so far. It seems like they’re talking a big game but not ready to back it up. And look, all transfers come with risk. Oshimen could be the missing piece for us, sign for $80m and then blow out his knee. It’s all a risk. I just haven’t been super excited about some of the news yet. I want to be excited and maybe it will all become clear once the midfield gets set up, but I’m still seeing huge gaps in the squad that are (allegedly) not going to be addressed or being shunted to the backburner.