absolutely nothing to do with lifestyle.
Alcohol, cigarettes and recreational drugs can impede recovery and make you more likely to get re-injured.
Itās a pity because our midfield is crying out for someone of his skillset.
I remember reading an article about Jack, when he first started playing, about how he had an unusual gait which would likely cause him injuries if he couldnāt amend it. How he would always suffer ankle problems because of it.
Canāt deal with this guy still having our #10. So take the money and runnnnn!
Hopefully Ćzil gets it
exactly that!
Surely Bournemouth would want him at that price. May be inflated, but I donāt see Arsene being too much of a cunt to Jack when the suitor is no rivalā¦?
Absolutely. I donāt understand how anyone expect 20 or 30 million for a player who has yet to prove he can go through a season injury free. And itās not like he is a teenager whoās only had a couple of injury riddled seasons and might just come good given the long future ahead of him. If there is one thing Jack has proven beyond doubt, itās the fact that he cannot be relied upon to stay injury free all season, season after season.
And we have to be ruthless this season. Get rid of players who havenāt contributed to the team in a while.
Selling him outside England for a lesser fee is always the answer, Iām sure weāll have some clauses in there too, that we probably wouldnāt be able to let fly if we sold him to likes of Bournemouth.
Does he still smoke?
Ā£14m for Woj offends me more than Ā£9m for Wilshere. Jack hasnāt been able to prove he can stay fit long term, a vital consideration whichever league youāre in.
This is great value for Sampdoria, a good move for Jack to a decent club (seek advice from Joe Hart about āuprooting your familyā - doesnāt have to be a negative) and removes one of Arsenalās higher earners from the wage bill, someone who unfortunately doesnāt contribute anything on the pitch anymore.
Hope this happens
Just goes to show you how important momemtum is in a career. When you havenāt really hit the heights for so long, the next wave of talent comes through and you being the hot ticket at one stage quickly disappears, as you get shuffled into the back of the talent queue.
Ā£9 million is a bit of a cheeky undervalued bid, but itās going to be tough to expect much more than that. I said two or three years ago that was the point we shouldāve sold him, when his value wouldāve definately been around the Ā£25 million mark,
Itās a bit of a sad reflection of what has been a slightly wasted career, ruined by long term injuries, at still a young age.
Iāll say again no way this happens, jack would rather play for Southendthan sampdoria lol
I would rather just keep him rather than sell him for Ā£9 million.
Right now he is probably the best backup to Ramsey that we have as the more attacking CM in the 3-4-3. Obviously, we canāt count on him for much of anything and it would be better to have a more reliable player in that spot. But until and unless weāre signing somebody else, I donāt see any reason to just give him away to Sampdoria for peanuts.
All depends if heād be replaced with a quality midfielder like you say.
If that was the case would rather let him walk rather than another season of injuries and will he or wont he sign rigmarole.
Otherwise might as well keep him around.
The thing is heāll probably be injured when you need him as a back up and we need to shift wages if weāre going to bring new players in. His career has been a massive waste of talent no doubt.
Iād hope we add a buyback clause.
Yeah was kind of thinking same thingā¦ even if we accept, have a hard time seeing Jack leave for a team like Sampdoria - he will probably reject it hoping that some other English team come in for him. The days of a glamor team coveting him are long over.
I think the price for goalkeepers hasnāt quite caught up with the crazy inflation for other players just yet (apart from maybe in Manchester), and given that his contract expires in a years time and heās seemingly dead set on leaving, Ā£14m wouldnāt be that bad IMO
Well, just keeping him around is expensive, especially when we will hardly get a few appearances out of that money, if at all we are lucky. And I really donāt think we will miss him. We missed Santi a heck of a lot more last season than Jack.
Pickford?