Arsenal Should Offer Aubameyang A Performance-Based Contract – Simon Jordan

Ex Crystal Palace chairman, Simon Jordan has come out to advice Arsenal to give Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang a new contract based on his performance.

Simon recently revealed that whether the price needed to keep him is wrong or right is not relevant because the club has to pay to keep a player who he is delivering in front of goal.

According to him, the fact that there will be no economic resale value is there, but Arsenal can solve that problem by offering him a contract that is performance-related.

He added that the player will definitely want guarantees, so it is up to the club to find the middle ground.

His words, “If the market pays players like this player with his ability £250,000 a week, whether that’s right or wrong is irrelevant, that’s what you’ve got to pay somebody if you want to retain their services,”

“The only challenge for Arsenal is that he would have no economic resale value [if he signed a new deal]. They can’t sell him for anything.

“If he signs another two or three-year contract, they won’t be signing a player to not only achieve things in the short-term but also make some money off when they come to sell him further down the line, they’d be simply be saying ‘we pay money now to get some short-term success, because that’s what Mikel Arteta needs’.

“I would do something footballers don’t like to do, which is make the offer performance-related.

“I would be saying to Aubameyang: ‘You want £250,000 a week? I tell you what, I’ll give you £300,000 a week if you score X amount of goals’.

“Let’s make this about you, let’s make it about your achievement, let’s make it about your individual return’.

“But players often want guarantees, and then the bonuses on top. It’s about finding the middle ground.”