Media: Arsenal raised the salary of Andrei Arshavin

The leadership of the London Arsenal, which previously announced the need for investment in the team and warned of the inevitable growth of the salary, took the first step in this direction, raising the salary to the 30-year-old Russian midfielder Andrei Arshavin.

Despite the fact that over the past year, Arshavin was subjected to numerous criticism, which even gave rise to rumors about putting him on a transfer, now the Russian national team player was on a par with the highest paid football players of the “gunners”, such as Robin Van Percy, Theo Walcott and Thomas Vermalen, reports The PEOPLE .

According to the media, the Arsenal’s decision to increase the salary of Arshavin can be considered as the club’s reluctance to be in the same situation that he encountered last summer, when he was forced to part with Manchester City, Gael Clish and Samir Nasri.

However, at the same time, the Arshavin contract was not extended, and his current agreement, like the above players in the London Club, was still calculated until the summer of 2013.