Wages a big stumbling block in Arsenal’s Sahin deal

Although the negotiations between Real Madrid and Arsenal over the loan of Nuri Sahin to the Gunners seem to be coming to a conclusion, it is being revealed this morning that the Turkish international’s current wage deal at the Bernabeau is a staggering £120,000 a week. This figure is far beyond Arsenal’s wage structure and would certainly annoy Alex Song (who left while earning £55,000 a week) and Theo Walcott (who is believed to demand £100,000 a week but has only been offered £70,000 a week). There is no way that Wenger would agree to that unless Madrid agreed to pay half his wages during the loan period. This would also scupper any chance of a permanent deal at the end of it unless Sahin drastically reduced his wage demands. This news had made me a bit more pessimistic about Sahin coming to Arsenal, but I guess, like Adeba...