Ivan Gazidis has allegedly received a £916k bonus from Arsenal for last season, despite the team’s terrible performances on the pitch and failure to secure Champions League football.

Gazidis has apparently received a whopping £916k bonus for last year’s ‘work’ – over double what he got the season before when Arsenal actually managed to get into the Champions League.

This takes his total wages to £2.61m, which is reportedly less than last year overall when he got £2.64m. However, an almost-£1m bonus is laughable.

Granted, Arsenal made a profit for last season. It may have only been £1m after tax but you could argue that some of this had gone towards the club’s chief executive. However, Gazidis’ bonus has always been extraordinarily high. Back in 2012, he got £675k as well as pension contributions of £100k.

Arsenal fans are understandably questioning what the chief actually did to warrant an almost-50% increase to his salary, especially since on the pitch the Gunners didn’t perform. They finished under Spurs for the first time since 1995 and missed out on Champions League football.

As Gooners are saying on social media, it’s hardly a surprise that no one at the club actually seems to want genuine change. They don’t need it.

Prepare for the wedge between the fans and the board to grow even bigger.