Money-grabbers are plunging football into anarchy, warns Gunners chairman

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Grasping football players risk plunging the game into "anarchy", according to Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood.

The Gunners supremo has backed his club's continued hard-line stance over wages
amid the usual summer maelstrom of pay demands and transfer requests.

Full-back Bacary Sagna yesterday signed an improved deal just a year after arriving at Emirates Stadium, with star midfielder Cesc Fabregas set to follow, while Emmanuel Adebayor has also been the subject of recent reports claiming he is after improved terms.

New pay deal: Bacary Sagna

Former midfielder Mathieu Flamini meanwhile quit the club for AC Milan last month, with wages reputedly a major factor in his exit.

Hill-Wood said: "Nowadays, a lot of people sign four-year contracts and you heave a sigh of relief. Six months later they come marching in saying they want double the wages.

"The only answer is to tell them they are on that contract and that's it. Unless you do that, the game will become chaotic and descend into anarchy.

"I think there are very few people who have really got the tradition of the club at heart. You can name them on one hand. Actually I can't name them on one hand and that's a great pity."