Wilshere’s salary collapse, Arsenal’s Golden Boy

“It’s hard to tell your son that no one loves you.” Jack Wilshere’s lapidary phrase in an interview a few months ago indicated how badly someone who was once a great prodigy of Arsenal and English football was having a hard time. After almost a year off, training with the ‘gunner’ team and even with some Italian club, He will play again thanks to the contract offered by Aarhus, a team from the Danish first division.

The terms on which Wilshere has agreed to return to football also sum up the problems he was having in pursuing his career. According to the Sun, the left-footed midfielder will receive a salary of 5,000 pounds a week, lower even than defender Tingager, who is the highest earner of the workforce with 6,700 pounds a week.

This is a far cry from the emoluments he received when he was an Arsenal player. So, in his prime, he received 100,000 pounds a week, 20 times more than now, and that was a young player with room for improvement, which indicated that he could get to sign another more juicy contract in the future.

However, the lack of minutes and the loss of confidence made him disappear from the spotlight. He was loaned out to Bournemouth and ended up at West Ham. TAfter several months exercising alone or with clubs that reached out to him, he has decided to return to modest football like Danish and with a salary that is far from that of the big stars, which he once was.