http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41095184WBA offered £12m for this guy at the start of the summer and AW rejected it. Now they sell for £7m. Do Arsenal have a plan or is it just off the cuff? They are going to trouser some more serious cash selling players in the next couple of days they said weren't for sale until their terrible start to the season. Someone needs to tell the yank owners there isn't a salary cap/college draft where you can tank and improve longer term unless......
Anyone else think they are tanking this season to avoid a second year of Europa league travels and 'do a Chelski' next season and get back into the Champions League playing one game a week with everyone fully rested and bypass the dreaded EL on a Thursday?
In a word no.
It is stuff like that which shows how clueless he has become.
So he sells the Ox. Going to be out of contract end of year, same as Gibbs, who has also gone.
Same as Sanchez....how the hell is he going to stay motivated, when he already wanted a move???
So he either has to go, which makes Wenger look stupid again, having said he wouldn't, or he stays and, if he is a decent chap, give his all, or as best as he can for someone who in actual fact doesnt want to be there.
Why are all these players not signing new contracts? They can't all be looking at each other thinking everyone else is a talentless waste of space, and we wont win anything. We would have heard more rumours etc.
It has to be because they all have no faith in the strategy, planning, coaching, tactics etc currently going on. They have all listened to the Boss give them talks on all the previous, when it sounded great and involved them, but now they have all heard the record enough times.
What has happened to players like Ox, still only 24, that AW clearly feels he cant take further.
He fucks around with these guys, different positions every other week, that is if they get a game, and it's no wonder they don't develop and mature, and grow into a player with a recognised role, cos it changes every time they go on the field. No wonder they want to move on.
I felt a slight wave of optimism that we were going to get away with a decent bit of business earlier when I heard we might swap a 28 year old great disillusioned player, for a 22 year old full of potential and a boat load of money, but that lasted all of two minutes.
It's so frickin depressing that the thought of coming 4th seems like a wishful thought too far.
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