Arteta Agrees New Five Year Deal !!!

[RFUS]

To be fair, Pienaar's more important to us than Saha. But I think the problem isn't that we should be offering Pienaar more, it's that Saha's getting too much.

 

[toffeestillidie]

To be fair, Pienaar's more important to us than Saha. But I think the problem isn't that we should be offering Pienaar more, it's that Saha's getting too much.

i agree Pienaar's more important to us, but thats because of our abundance of great strikers and only modest cover for midfield, not because Pienaar is a better player than Saha, who is world class on his day. If pienaar did leave it would be disappointing, but we would still have arteta, osman, anichebe, bilyaletdinov, rodwell, neville, vaughan, and cahill who can all play at least somewhere in midfield, so its not like we're completely skint of cover.

i agree that parity with Saha would be fair, but i think if that were the case both of their contract amounts with be appropriate.