Bukayo Saka Becomes the Highest-Paid Player at Arsenal

JAKARTA - Bukayo Saka became the highest-paid player at Arsenal after signing a new five-year contract. Now, Saka gets a salary of 300 thousand pounds or 6.7 billion rupiah per week.

Arsenal is starting to confirm as a club that dares to give high salaries to players. On the other hand, by giving a relatively high salary, it makes players fight more in the match. As proven, Arsenal is leading the English Premier League standings even though in the last match against Liverpool at the Emirates, Arsenal was only able to draw 0-0.

The draw indeed makes Arsenal fail to get away from its competitors. However, with 49 points, Arsenal is six points ahead of Manchester City and Aston Villa.

Arsenal also floated the dream of winning the league title for the first time since 2004 as well as ending a 22-year title drought with manager Mikel Arteta who has just given the FA Cup and Community Shield titles.

Yes, Arsenal became Premier League champions when still being managed by Arsene Wenger with a row of stars led by Thierry Henry, captain Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires to goalkeeper David Seaman.

The Gunners' hopes of repeating that success are supported by high salaries for players. And, Saka became the highest-paid player after signing a new contract at the North London club.

Saka who showed loyalty and loyalty because he had joined Arsenal since he was a junior. He entered the Arsenal senior team in 2018. When his contract was only 18 months left, the club also renewed his contract for the next five years or ending in 2031.

With a salary of 300 thousand pounds per week, Saka became the highest-paid player at Arsenal. He became the first player at the club with a salary that high.

Previously, Arsenal had renewed the contracts of a number of pillar players. They also received salaries that were not inferior. For the ambition to win the league title, the club is ready to give high salaries to the players. At least six top players receive a minimum salary of 200 thousand pounds.

Striker Kai Havertz became the second highest-paid player after receiving a salary of 275 thousand pounds or around 6.2 billion rupiah per week.

Followed by William Saliba who has a salary of 250 thousand pounds and Declan Rice gets a salary of 225 thousand pounds. On the other hand, the salary of captain Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Jesus is the same, namely 220 pounds or approximately 4.9 billion pounds per week.

Striker Viktor Gyokeres became the new player who immediately received a high salary. Not to mention, Gyokeres who has not yet shown as a predator in the penalty box gets a salary of 200 thousand pounds.

His salary is higher than that of old players such as Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Magalhaes and Ben White as well as Leandro Trossard who joined Arsenal in 2023 when recruited from Brighton and Hove Albion.

Ironically, the new player Noni Madueke who contributed quite a lot to The Gunners even received a 'small salary'. The England national team player, who was brought in from Chelsea, is paid 50 thousand pounds every week.

Meanwhile, Max Dowman, who is still 16 and has set a record for the youngest player to ever play in the Champions League, has received a salary of 350 pounds or 7.9 million rupiah per week. Because he is not yet 17 and still in school, Dowman does not have a professional contract.