It's funny reading the debates about which players are on 180k vs 200k a week wages. Just repeat that to yourself and let it sink in. Debating 20k difference...per...week. My heart bleeds for them truly when they have to play football for an extra game to match the top paid players of the world. When you earn more in a week than the average salary in the UK 10 times over, you'd think it would become less relevant, but here we are.
With regard to the debate above though, Arsenal will have to pay to keep the young guns unfortunately. It's just how top flight football is now. It's often not even the players wanting more of that money. It's their agents wanting commission, pushing them to force higher paid contracts surely. Money talks, and complicates things. Arsenal still need to make some additions to the squad anyway to cover future injuries and suspensions.
All we keep hearing this season is how City will reel us in. The match against City might not even matter in Feb given our current lead and if we can keep winning. But in terms of a statement and belief, it's obviously huge. We just need to take one game at a time, and keep playing the way we are. Disciplinary wise, we seem to have much better control now even with Xhaka. His partnership with Party looks solid. The chemistry across the team is high. It's exciting times for gunners finally after a patient wait.
On Nketiah, I was impressed with him the other night against West Ham. As much as he plays it down, he's under a lot of pressure there to come in and deliver. His first couple of chances he looked less clinical and seemed to do that thing where he went too casual in front of goal. But in terms of his touch, movement, hold up and turns, he looked good. His goal was really well taken too. Pleased for him.
