Quote Originally Posted by 7sisters View Post
Furthermore, I don?t warm to the idea of him walking out on a free. The club need to up their game in that respect.
I think that was the plan all along unless Saudi came in with silly money. When we bought Dec and Kai they were the plan for the new 6-8 MF. If SA had offered a lot for Wigwam we'd have sold him. Dec moving forward is why we took the extra year option on Jorgy.

I think we were expecting TP to leave on a free this year - he's on big wages and we wanted Zubi but he may now be going to Real. {Prob looked at the two games and thought "I can get into that RM MF easy. But if the Arse buy a top striker, with MnM showing what he can do, and Kai having done so, AFC may go with one of those two at inside left and Dec at DM and I could find it harder to break into the team like my mate MnM did at the start of this season. So I'll go to Real and be a nailed on starter cos the Arsenal MF run them ragged."}

But yes, given Jorgy for 12m on a 1.5 year contract with an extra year option was a bargain. Assuming Jorgy goes and we buy a new DM, how much would we pay for Wigwam on a one or two year contract {or one year with optional 2nd?}

Quite a bit, imo. He's playing superbly and with Dec and Odin that's a top MF trio. I wish we'd sign these big money players who are in their late '20s peak with an optional extra year like with Jorgy. If they lose form, we don't pay them a fortune to warm the bench for the final year. If they stay at their best like Wigwam, then we can keep and have another year to find a replacement.