Arsenal: We really couldn’t pay Aaron Ramsey that much?
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal have lost out on Aaron Ramsey to Juventus come the summer, but with the rumored wage reveal, are we even angrier than before?
I’m about to go down a dark and dangerous road of believing one particular Arsenal rumor and speculating to fill in the gaps. If you would like to join me on this journey, come along. If not, I completely understand. I would probably back out too at this point, if I wasn’t the conductor of this caravan.
The reports are pretty conclusive – Aaron Ramsey is joining Juventus. All of the actual reputable sites are reporting it, Unai Emery is talking about it, as much as I still refuse to accept the truth, it is the actual truth.
Thus, the legend that is Rambo will move on and I’ll still be here, griping about why we couldn’t extend our most important player in an era of changes and turmoil.
That was all going to happen anyway, but the reports of what Ramsey will be making at Juventus is what has sent me to the top of gripe mountain.
According to the Telegraph (a reputable site, mind you), Ramsey will make “up to £140,000” a week. As in, those will be the wages that the Gunners could not stump up for. Because remember, Ramsey is leaving because he couldn’t get the wages he deserved.
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If you’re scratching your head, rest assured, so am I.
When they were talking about getting Ramsey a pay raise, I was all about giving him as much as Mesut Ozil makes, because he is worth that much. At the very least, his wages should have doubled.
On his current deal, with Arsenal, Ramsey is making £110,000. In case you can’t do that math, that’s just £30,000 shy of what he is going to be making with the Serie A club.
This is what I don’t understand. Presumably he is willing to take a cut to go to Juventus, so he must have been asking for more to stay at the Emirates, but what “more” could it have been? Or was the essence of “more” the problem from a more abstract standpoint?
It has to be hard seeing a player who rarely plays and isn’t nearly as effective as you make three times more than what you make. And maybe that’s where the problem began – the sense of inequality.
Going to Juventus, Ramsey will be making more than Miralem Pjanic. He will be making more than nearly everyone, save Ronaldo and Douglas Costa. Meaning that he will be on the pedestal where he belongs, and not trapped beneath a completely fudged wage pyramid.