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Arsenal had cheeky tactic to avoid meeting old Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain contract clause

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Arsenal had a cheeky tactic to avoid meeting an add-on clause in the deal which saw them sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton in 2011.

Oxlade-Chamberlain spent six years with the Gunners, making 198 appearances and winning three FA Cups before moving to Liverpool in 2017.However, Arsenal's tactics for avoiding having to pay additional performance based fees that had been included in the transfer limited the number of starts the midfielder made for the club.The Gunners were required to pay Southampton £10,000 every time Oxlade-Chamberlain played more than 20 minutes in a match, perhaps contributing to him starting just 115 matches for the Gunners.Alan Gernon explained this clause in his 2018 book, The Transfer Market: Inside.

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