Arsenal has reached an agreement on a new deal with Bukayo Saka, with a club announcement expected soon.
Several fans and pundits have described the attacker as the best player in the Premier League in the last few weeks and he continues to dazzle as one of the finest Englishmen in Europe.
Arsenal has been in talks with his entourage over an extension for several months as they seek to keep their star man at the Emirates.
Saka has continued to show he has what it takes to deliver and the club has now reached an agreement that could earn the 21-year-old up to £80m for the duration of the new deal, Football Insider reports.
It details that the base salary in the deal is worth £220,000 per week, but it could reach £300,000 per week, including bonuses.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Saka is so good it is hard to argue he should be the highest earner at Arsenal at the moment.
We expect his camp to be very happy about the offer, but it might not take long before the club increases his salary in a new deal again if he continues to deliver top performances domestically and in Europe.
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I read last night that it could be as much as 400 k per week .
While I don’t think it’s up to that amount, I won’t be surprised if it reaches. The delay in talks tells us his agents were clearly holding our for as much money as they could squeeze out from the club, money which the club are not reluctant to pay.
Did the report say that Arsenal would have to win the treble and he would need to be the golden boot winner to make $400k? Feel like the incentives would need to be really lofty for that.
I’m happy with $200-220 per week. I think he’s earned it, and the incentives for wins and goals (not knowing the targets) seems like a good compromise if his camp was looking for more guaranteed money. I hope this contract helps with Saliba getting signed next. Seems like a fair contract and well earned.
I have mixed emotions regarding Saka earning so much money- upwards of £275000 pw
He’s a terrific player with a great character as well. Fantastic!
My problem stems from his young age and the seniority of other players in the squad. What happens to Jesus or Zinchenko and Odegaard – our captain? Do they have clauses in their contracts to then keep up with or overtake Saka?
Sue, I was reading recently that the club was now looking to get Odegaard on a very, very long contract of around 7/8 years.
Saka is actually senior over Jesus, Zinny & Martin in time at The Arsenal, so perhaps no issues on that score until they start negotiating new deals?
And so it goes on😁
It does go on Jax
I’m a big fan of Odegaard so I have fingers crossed that he will stay long term
I went to my only game of the season against CP so far and Odegaard’s reaction to the crowd as he applauded us all on his lap of the ground was phenomenal
👏👏👏
As I’ve said before, my fear has always been the next round of contracts, not these ones. By then our players would be in their primes, would have stayed long enough with us to start looking for new challenges and the wages demanded would likely have become prohibitive by our standard. I am scared, I won’t lie
My honest take on these massive salaries increases am not in favor but it is what it is, that’s how things works in the market economy.
But if we can’t address a simple thing like time wasting in the modern game how are we going to cap these extravagant salaries.
High salaries are easily resolved by clubs refusing to pay them, while time wasting is an issue for FIFA, The FA, The Premier League and PGMOL to deal with within the laws of the game.
Not comparable really.
I think this blows the thought that coronavirus would help stop the ridiculous salaries that footballers are demanding today.
At the time of the claim made by Jon Fox and others, I said that, in order to stay a “top club” they would have to bite the bullet and pay up, or become a mid table club.
It seems that decision has been taken and we can look forward to seeing trophies at the club for many years to come.
KEN you invoke my name, as you have many times done before when you believe you have been proven right and me wrong.
But on this subject you are far too previous, so to speak.
The massive shock awaiting all Prem clubs who pay ridiculous salaries and transfer fees is stiil coming , though as yet many are still able to pay them.
But have you not noticed KEN, as I have, how even many Prem clubs are financially living beyond their means?
By all means continue living in your fools paradise, while you still can, but ere too long even YOU will be forced to see what more astute and observant fans have long seen, that this ever increasing spiral of wages and transfer fees are heading for an almighty crash.
To paraphrase an old proverb, you can take a horse to the opticians but you cannot make him see, if he refuses to do so!
If you still dont get it , just think ahead three or four years when SAKA needs another and increased contract and so do all our other top class players.
SAKA is imminently reported to be signing a new contract at around £300k pw, including bonuses. How much MORE will he want in a few years time and all his team mates also, then!
If you fondly imagine or choose to fool yourself that Sky and BT and other TV sports packages, plus corporate sponsorshipand season tickets and gate money will keep going up and up for ever , then you are even more short sighted than i believe you to be .
As someone yourself who never even saw Ozils legendary and several years long obvious laziness, SOMETIMES I DESPAIR OF YOUR LACK OF OBSERVATION KEN.
Just as I stated in another post today, I’m scared of the next round of contract talks. The players’ wages will likely be prohibitive to us
Hopefully there’ll be Champions League money to help offset some of the costs, although half a team of super earners would be difficult to maintain without other regular legal sources of income.
dgr8xt, We both know that on many matters we take opposing views. But on THIS matter, it is just an ability to do basic arithmetic and so observe ever increaing obvious financial difficulties that MANY clubs , even top clubs have, that ANY fan needs, in order to see what OUGHT to be clear to all of us.
Let we two be thankful that OUR eyes and brains are not dimmed.
So having both seen the trends, we need to see the solution too. That SOLUTION lies in much lower wages, reduced transfer fees and, if need be , brought in by legislation.
Jon, I’m not saying you are wrong am I?
What I AM saying, is that “to stay a top club” we have to pay such grotesque salaries, or lose out to the clubs that will pay.
That was my argument back then and it stays the same today.
If, as you predict, the house of cards known as the PL, does come tumbling down, I take solace in the fact that city, newcastle and chelsea have already been made aware of their being subjects of interest regarding ownership and transfer dealings, while Mr Kronkie SEEMS to be whiter than white.
Why you have to bring Ozil into, what seems, every one of your observations, is becoming so predictable, I would suggest that THAT’S becoming a lazy fallback on your part.
I no longer have any footballing interest in the man and worry not about him – can I suggest you do the same and become a happier, less grumpier old man?
Performance based increase on wages. So they have to perform and keep their momentum up to bag those bonus’, pretty simple.
And I am sure as someone above put it winning the golden boot, assists, champions league etc….
£220k a week for this talented boy in an inflated football game flooded with money isn’t bad at all… plus he’s an Arsenal boy. You treat your own better than the average Joe!