He is nowhere near where henry was as a player, i agree and maybe the comparison's should stop here. I admit I started them. Money is not everything in football. I am not saying he should get 120k just 90 or a 100k. One swallow does not make a summer true, yet wenger must consider adequately paying players. Argument about clubs paying footballers maybe true but we don't have sufficient info to go into that. Not saying pay all your players a ridiculous amount, only those who warrant such an amount.
Henry, I am first to say was never a favourite of mine, scored so many goals each year and has probably the best technique in terms of placing the ball and scoring goals. Many will agree that he still plays as a winger of sorts relies on pace and pace and guile, not really skilled as a footballer but scores quality goals. In my opinion Bergkamp was way a better footballer and is way high in my estimation. Same reason I rate adebayor not for his goals but his overall game, watching adebayor means watching someone not reliant on pace and timing too much but on his skill and ability with the ball, we could go on. Point being he is a different player to Henry with Much to learn and may probably never score as many goals but is a quality player in all regards. He is still young and he may not win as many trophies as henry but this is not the only way we can measure a player's contribution. Same as I think Henry is in the same category as say Del Piero or Raul, in terms of How good a player he was even though del piero never got the plaudits and lost a lot to injury but he was still a gem but was a better player.
I don't expect Adebayor to score a ridiculous amount of goals but to improve on his all round game and for that he deserves far more than he is getting at the moment. Shearer was one quality striker with probably the same if not better strike rate than Henry albeit without the pace and yet he will never be mentioned in the same breath. Granted the swallow metaphor and you cannot expect players to play for peanuts even if they dn't win things. Teams need luck amongst other things and I think for the second season his salary should be increased as they have seen what he can do and the potential exists for better things to come. I think adebayor deserves more and our van persie with his injuries and inconsistent contributins is the one deserving 50k, i don't know how much he earns though.
For all the arguments about Henry last time arsenal won the league they had a solid contribution from all over the park, goals coming from pires, lungberg, viera as well as campbell and co at the back ensuring clean sheets, illustrating that a solid team effort wins the league. Cesc and Adebayor, Flamini, sagna played their hearts out yet still injuries and wenger's decision making cost arsenal the title. There is no reason why arsenal players should not be well remunerated they filling seats at a new stadium and playing exciting football that broadcasters always want to televise, reach the quaterfinals of major competitions, i mean really, all this 50k a month, get real.
We could go on bout players like scholes negotiating their onw wages and not having any agents and still managing to leave an exemplary life as well as valuing their trophies and triumphs yet for having won 8 league titles and being content with 80k is really inspiring and amazing, one can't help but think those trophies made man utd a team known world wide and if he should have been paid more. Thoug the are many ways one can take care of a player of scholes, giggs or maldini's stature we have to consider that even if he hadn't won those trophies he deserved more and that he did makes the situation even more unbelievable
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