Kanu Faces Pay Cut to Stay at Arsenal
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Kanu Faces Pay Cut to Stay at Arsenal
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THISDAYSports can exclusively reveal today that Nwankwo Kanu would consider a pay cut if moves by Arsenal to offer him a two-year contract extension materialises.
And even as the Nations Cup bronze medalist weighs his future options, two more clubs have joined the growing list of those ready to put contract papers before him should he decide to leave Highbury this summer.
Premiership surprise team Charlton Athletic and La Liga side Villarreal have also indicated their interest in anticipation that the Japan'93 star may not remain with the Gunners next season. Other clubs mentioned are Premiership sides Manchester City, where Nicholas Anelka a former team mate of Kanu at Arsenal is said to be pushing manager Kevin Keegan to re-unite them, and Middlesbrough. In Spain Real Mallorca and Real Betis are said to be also interested in the lanky player.
But THISDAYSports reliably learnt in Tunisia that word out of Highbury is that Arsene Wenger is now ready to offer Kanu a two-year extension but he will have to take a pay cut because the cash-strapped club can not afford to keep him on his current salary of œ42,000 a week.
The club will also try to sweeten the deal by paying him a lump sum since he could leave on a Bosman at the end off his contract, which ends this year.
Clubs, which sign out of contract players usually make it up for the player by either paying a certain sum directly to the player or building it into his salary. This is why Arsenal could afford to pay Sol Campbell œ80,000-a-week when he joined them for free from city rivals Tottenham a couple of seasons ago.
"Club officials hinted that they were now ready to offer him (Kanu) a two-year extension on the condition that he would have to take a pay cut. The offer was made to him while they (Arsenal) were complaining about Kanu's decision to continue playing for Nigeria in Tunisia even though he was carrying a thigh injury.
"The truth is that if they are really serious Kanu is willing to listen to them. He is aware of the precarious state of the club's finances in the wake of the new stadium they are building. He also knows that Dennis Bergkamp took a pay cut to stay so it's not as if the club is trying to short change him.
"The issue is they are yet to make the offer formal and until they do we won't know how much they intend to reduce his salary. The amount will go a long way in determining if he will remain or leave," explained a source close to the player.
Kanu declined to comment on the issue when approached at the Eagles' Kuriat Palace Hotel, Monastir. He only confirmed that he was defying his club by playing with an injured thigh.
THISDAYSports can exclusively reveal today that Nwankwo Kanu would consider a pay cut if moves by Arsenal to offer him a two-year contract extension materialises.
And even as the Nations Cup bronze medalist weighs his future options, two more clubs have joined the growing list of those ready to put contract papers before him should he decide to leave Highbury this summer.
Premiership surprise team Charlton Athletic and La Liga side Villarreal have also indicated their interest in anticipation that the Japan'93 star may not remain with the Gunners next season. Other clubs mentioned are Premiership sides Manchester City, where Nicholas Anelka a former team mate of Kanu at Arsenal is said to be pushing manager Kevin Keegan to re-unite them, and Middlesbrough. In Spain Real Mallorca and Real Betis are said to be also interested in the lanky player.
But THISDAYSports reliably learnt in Tunisia that word out of Highbury is that Arsene Wenger is now ready to offer Kanu a two-year extension but he will have to take a pay cut because the cash-strapped club can not afford to keep him on his current salary of œ42,000 a week.
The club will also try to sweeten the deal by paying him a lump sum since he could leave on a Bosman at the end off his contract, which ends this year.
Clubs, which sign out of contract players usually make it up for the player by either paying a certain sum directly to the player or building it into his salary. This is why Arsenal could afford to pay Sol Campbell œ80,000-a-week when he joined them for free from city rivals Tottenham a couple of seasons ago.
"Club officials hinted that they were now ready to offer him (Kanu) a two-year extension on the condition that he would have to take a pay cut. The offer was made to him while they (Arsenal) were complaining about Kanu's decision to continue playing for Nigeria in Tunisia even though he was carrying a thigh injury.
"The truth is that if they are really serious Kanu is willing to listen to them. He is aware of the precarious state of the club's finances in the wake of the new stadium they are building. He also knows that Dennis Bergkamp took a pay cut to stay so it's not as if the club is trying to short change him.
"The issue is they are yet to make the offer formal and until they do we won't know how much they intend to reduce his salary. The amount will go a long way in determining if he will remain or leave," explained a source close to the player.
Kanu declined to comment on the issue when approached at the Eagles' Kuriat Palace Hotel, Monastir. He only confirmed that he was defying his club by playing with an injured thigh.
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Nonsense, Kanu is not being offered a new contract period. Bergkamp will be given a rolling extension, Alliardiere is establishing himself as a decent squad player, and with the emergence of David Bentley and Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Kanu is surplus to requirements. He may well find hinself sipping Pina Coladas with Sylvain Wiltord in a dodgy spanish jersey come next season. Goodbye and good riddance.
I thought he needed money! If playing time will give him money no problem. However, if he can get the money by sitting on the bench, why stress the guy?ruff'n'tuff wrote:My toughts exactly.Mankinka wrote:I fully concur with you.Dodo wrote:Maybe its time for him to leave Highbury and try at a team where he can get more games
its an insult to footballers worldwide that Nwankwo Uselessness has the privelege to consider himself a professional, this guy is a fossil, bearing the bones of the goldenboy of 96. He is finished, like Pepper Soup on Amokachi's plate. Its time this dinosaur was extinct, he's been putting his feet up for club and country for the past 5 years, its just that they're so big, its taken him so long.
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I think kanu should jump at any offer from La liga because the style of play there suits his strengths..If he resigns for Arsenal at any price, he still will not get any regular burn and will be used primarily as an insurance player(i.e when the Henry and them are rested or injury situations or mop-up duty). Whatever happens, he needs to leave Arsenal. Wenger has pretty much consigned him to the bench.
