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With the recent news that 'Moneybags'™ Manchester City, the 'Richest Club in the World'™ are to pay Yaya Toure a weekly wage of £200,000, we could all rightly think that football has, at last, gone mad. Just because 'Megabucks'™ Manchester City have a multi-billionaire owner who thinks nothing of paying their latest big money acquisition £250,000 per week, doesn't make it right.
Just look at Arsenal. A Club doing things the right way. The Arsenal way. They don't have to pay £300,000 a week to get players to turn out for them for every 'Sky Super Sunday Showdown'™ They have a very strict pay structure, & although no-one knows what it is, we can surmise that potentially no player is allowed to earn more than minimum wage. Playing for pride, tradition & a history dating all the way back to before 1992 is all the motivation these players need. Household name like Djourou, Traore & Vela all turn up week in week out purely for the love of this traditional, English club.
Talking of England & their atrocious display at the World Cup, again Arsenal can be held up as a shining light of optimism. Whilst Manchester City with their 'filthy petro dollars'™ and their £350,000 a week salaries, contributed 3 players to England's pathetic performances, patriotic Arsenal, supplied none, and are totally blameless with regards to England's shame. Manchester City, the 'Club with No History'™ boast about their Academy, which, since 1998, has produced a paltry 31 players who have played for the First Team, of which 12 have gone on to achieve full International caps. 11 have represented England at various levels. During this time England have won absolutely nothing. Not a jot. A damning indictment on the 'quality' of their academy.
Compare this to the Arsenal Academy, which has produces a staggering 55 players to achieve full International caps (since the second world war), including Ashley Cole, another example of a true English hero, brought up on traditional Arsenal standards. His head wouldn't be turned by the lure of £400,000 a week of City's 'dirty money'™. He plays for pride, for history. And for Chelsea.
Whilst Arsenal continue to be a force in Europe with Silvestre, Diaby, Eboue & that loveable scamp, Eduardo, 'Morally Bankrupt'™ Manchester City & their hordes of overpaid mercenaries will continue to ruin football. And England.
God save Arsenal.
With the recent news that 'Moneybags'™ Manchester City, the 'Richest Club in the World'™ are to pay Yaya Toure a weekly wage of £200,000, we could all rightly think that football has, at last, gone mad. Just because 'Megabucks'™ Manchester City have a multi-billionaire owner who thinks nothing of paying their latest big money acquisition £250,000 per week, doesn't make it right.
Just look at Arsenal. A Club doing things the right way. The Arsenal way. They don't have to pay £300,000 a week to get players to turn out for them for every 'Sky Super Sunday Showdown'™ They have a very strict pay structure, & although no-one knows what it is, we can surmise that potentially no player is allowed to earn more than minimum wage. Playing for pride, tradition & a history dating all the way back to before 1992 is all the motivation these players need. Household name like Djourou, Traore & Vela all turn up week in week out purely for the love of this traditional, English club.
Talking of England & their atrocious display at the World Cup, again Arsenal can be held up as a shining light of optimism. Whilst Manchester City with their 'filthy petro dollars'™ and their £350,000 a week salaries, contributed 3 players to England's pathetic performances, patriotic Arsenal, supplied none, and are totally blameless with regards to England's shame. Manchester City, the 'Club with No History'™ boast about their Academy, which, since 1998, has produced a paltry 31 players who have played for the First Team, of which 12 have gone on to achieve full International caps. 11 have represented England at various levels. During this time England have won absolutely nothing. Not a jot. A damning indictment on the 'quality' of their academy.
Compare this to the Arsenal Academy, which has produces a staggering 55 players to achieve full International caps (since the second world war), including Ashley Cole, another example of a true English hero, brought up on traditional Arsenal standards. His head wouldn't be turned by the lure of £400,000 a week of City's 'dirty money'™. He plays for pride, for history. And for Chelsea.
Whilst Arsenal continue to be a force in Europe with Silvestre, Diaby, Eboue & that loveable scamp, Eduardo, 'Morally Bankrupt'™ Manchester City & their hordes of overpaid mercenaries will continue to ruin football. And England.
God save Arsenal.
