Football Spy: Arshavin may pay the price.Byline: By JOHN CROSS ARSENE WENGER last night warned that Arsenal will not break their wage structure to sign Andrei Arshavin Andrey Arshavin (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Аршавин, first name also transliterated as Andrei . Arshavin's move has hit a pounds 2.5million stumbling block stum·bling block n. An obstacle or impediment. stumbling block Noun any obstacle that prevents something from taking place or progressing Noun 1. and Wenger has told the Zenit St Petersburg midfielder that hewill not get more than Arsenal's top earner, William Gallas, who is on pounds 80,000 a week. Arshavin, 27, signed a new deal at Zenit last season which took his wages up to pounds 90,000. But there was a pounds 2.5m penalty clause if the contract was broken and all parties are refusing to pay the cash. Wenger said: "The players who come in here have to come in on our wage structure or they don't come in." CAPTION(S): HITCH hitch to fasten by a knot, usually used to describe tying a horse to a post. Arshavin |
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