He's a grown up, and our captain - what on earth could we be so scared he might say, if not that he wants to leave and weaken our bargaining position? To issue a media ban is fine and all, just feels like it's not particularly mature. If it's even true, of course.
It's one of the reasons I think he's definitely off - footballers have scarcely got less free time on their hands than benefit cheats and restaurant critics, and yet they can't find the time to negotiate a contract? It's a wonder any of us stay employed at all, if that were the case. He's had all season to consider this, and he'll have gone into whatever meeting was had yesterday having a good idea in his head whether he wanted to stay or go. If it's about money, he'll leave, if it's about signing players he'll leave - we can't compete with City and won't compete with Juve on either front. He's had long enough to consider how much Arsenal means to him, and personally, I think that if he'd resolved to stay at Arsenal there's no reason at all he shouldn't have been ready to put pen-to-paper at 09:00 this Monday morning.
