One reason I think we should be cautious about signing Vini Jr, is that when we sign Mbappe in January we will potentially see the same issues with them clashing and that will disrupt the dressing room
🚨🚨| BREAKING: Arsenal are ready to offer Vinicius Junior over £𝟒𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 per week — the 𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 salary in the club’s history. 🤯
The Gunners have decided the financial aspect will 𝐍𝐎𝐓 be a problem in their pursuit of Vini Jr.
[@TeleFootball]
HOW ARE ARSENAL ABLE TO AFFORD VINICIUS JR’S WAGES:
Arsenal are in for Vinicius Junior and the wage bill is of course top of mind, with how RIGID Arsenal’s structure is.
So how will Arsenal manage to do this.
Image rights.
If you didn’t know, Real Madrid take 50% of a player's commercial image rights revenue.
Florentino Perez believes that with playing at Los Blancos, they will get a boost to their name, image and likeness that they will inevitably profit from.
They have run that policy for twenty five years. Figo signed it, Zidane signed it, Beckham signed it. Ronaldo arrived in 2009 as Ballon d'Or holder, demanded 100%, and Madrid refused him before settling at 60-40.
The only other man to break it was Mbappé in 2024, who was able to negotiate at 80%.
England does not have this argument.
There is no statutory law governing image rights here, and the way it works is pretty simple.
The player owns his image, assigns it to his own company, and licences the club for them to use.
Image rights will not make Vinicius cheap. But it will allow Arsenal to offer lower wages which is most likely different to the one that’s been reported.
For Vini, this’ll be a huge change for him and one that can absolutely skyrocket his income by making the move over to London.
Let’s hope the move can happen but Arsenal can push this HARD
The Van Dijk snub isn’t even the most hilarious thing about Ed Woodward during this deal. He was originally sent to Lisbon to speak to Benfica about Ruben Dias. He came back with Lindelof and Jose was pissed.
Ornstein is a perfect example to follow for anyone looking to get in to football journalism. He doesn’t entertain, he informs. He doesn’t build a brand of tearing other people down, he doesn’t say the same thing twice just for RT’s and doesn’t speak at all unless there is something meaningful to be said. It is so unbelievably difficult to be that well informed and to be that accurate, he is obviously someone who has a lot of trust of key people in the game. That’s how it’s done.