Arsenal face huge wage demands from Ozil, Sanchez

ARSENAL could yet hold on to Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez beyond the end of the season after it emerged that they are demanding wages of nearly £300,000a-week in order to rival Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba as the Premier League’s highest-paid player.

It’s expected that while Ozil will commit his future to the club in the form of a new contract, Sanchez is likely to leave this summer, having grown frustrated with the club’s failure to challenge for the Premier League and European success. Both Ozil and Sanchez are out of contract at the end of next season, and their futures are in serious doubt along with that of manager Arsene Wenger.

Ozil spoke this weekend about his contract renegotiations, and insisted that they do not depend on what Wenger decides to do in the coming months, given his deal expires at the end of the season and he has not yet made up his mind on signing a two-year extension that has al- ready been offered to him.

Now, the Evening Standard reports that an additional hold-up in contract talks has come in the form of Ozil’s and Sanchez’s huge wage demands which would put them in the same region as United midfielder Pogba, who remains the most expensive ever signing.

The north London club are being asked to match their £290,000-a-week demands in order for the pair to commit their longterm futures to Arsenal. – The Independent