Arsenal plan to pay new signing the wages Alexis Sanchez wants

Arsenal want to break the bank for Thomas Lemar

Arsene Wenger may not be willing to pay Alexis Sanchez the wages he so desperately covets, but Arsenal are willing to meet Thomas Lemar’s outrageous wage demands. The news of what the Gunners are willing to pay the Monaco star will only increase the tension between the club and their Chilean talisman.

English sources claim that Arsenal are confident they can land the French attacker for a transfer fee of somewhere around £92 million. That isn’t the most shocking figure in the report though. It also claims that Wenger and company will hand Lemar a wage packet of £250 thousand per week.

Expect that news to send shock waves through the Arsenal dressing room. Alexis and his representatives will certainly use that as a benchmark for their negotiations with the club. Learning that a relatively unproven commodity like Lemar will be paid so handsomely will only embolden Alexis’ demands.

This report could also have a dramatic impact on Mesut Ozil’s chances of signing a new deal. It’s been the commonly held belief that eventually he and Arsenal would work out a deal for him to stay. The lack of progress on a deal has begun to eat away at that spirit of optimism. Learning that Lemar has been offered such a prodigious sum will have a serious impact on Ozil’s wage demands as well.