After Tuesday’s official club announcement that Emmanuel Adebayor has signed his new contract doubling his earnings, something occurred to me while staring at the Sky Sports website at work. Something that’s had its seeds sown not only by Saturday’s game but throughout the whole protracted transfer ramblings this summer that the club had.

The fact is it’s all a bit of a contradiction really that on one hand Flamini walks out of the club because he had his head turned after a good season wanting a pay rise. Fair enough, we are getting used to this sort of thing to be honest at the Arsenal. With no major shareholder or egomaniac foreign billionaire chairman to lob cash into the club it’s going to happen. Then a few months later the club cave in to Adebayor’s demands under some misguided impression that he’s the new Henry. Ok he got thirty goals last season, but six I think where against Derby.

Also he didn’t score for seven games when we needed him to after his hair cut. We’ve all been fed the lines, we are a tight ship and clubs have to be self reliant etc etc and I have nothing against that. More clubs should follow this ideal, but then we see it hijacked and contradicted with someone just in it for the money and who is not as good as he thinks he is. Also, it rather creates a frustrating atmosphere on matchday when they under-perform. What about the other players who had a good season? Where is Sagna’s massive wage increase?

I wasn’t surprised by the booing last Saturday, and to be honest I don’t think it will bother him all that much. For him it’s early in the season and he’s (and the rest of us!!) hoping that his form will kick in with the constant first team starts the gaffer is going to give him. Well it had better before we all totally lose patience in his inability to stick easy changes away or before Eduardo and Carols Vela start making an impact in the first team.

What makes this situation unique is that of all the players over the years, so many have made noises during the summer wanting to leave but this time one has stayed. We have had it from so many - Helb, Cashly, Reyes, Anelka, to name a few. Kicking up snotty comments and making unsettling remarks towards a club that’s made them. That’s no different than Adebayor, only this time the deal fell though and that puts us Gooners in an odd situation.

These things usually end with another of our players doubling their take home pay and under performing for Barca or AC Milan or whoever while we gloat from afar. Now we have to get back behind the player, support him, toe the line and not get cheesed off with it. If performances don’t improve the moans groans and boos will flair up more and increase, and as with modern football contracts not being worth the ink they are written on at the moment what’s stopping us going through the whole process again next summer?

The idealist in me likes to think our approach to Ade on Saturday might be the first signs of a fans’ revolt - not towards the club mind you - but something that’s been festering not only over the summer with our wantaway players but maybe a general reaction to players like the Ronaldo’s of this world and the apparent slave trade they think they’re in. In the credit crunch world and with increasing ticket prices, the punters don’t really like to see their clubs blackmailed by big headed players.

Then I wake up and just realise it might have all been something to do with another missed chance from him. That to say those in the media who have the impression that all modern footballers are now highly paid mercenaries isn’t quite the whole picture. It’s all about conduct. Gilberto and Vieira left the club and are revered as legends because of their conduct. They just got on with it even in the midst of transfer speculation and because of Ade’s unbecoming conduct over the last few months, when his time does come to leave I don’t think the same will be said up in the stands by those that have helped to pay his wages.