Klaus wrote:
Claudius wrote:
Think back to that January. The mood in the club once we had allowed ourselves to get to that position with our two stars on the verge of leave. We had failed to invest, and created a culture of a two star team, with the two stars tired of getting peanuts to play for a nothing team. I don't recall any fans then advocating that we lose Ozil once it became clear Sanchez was leaving.
Because none did. He was our best player up till that point, and even though the season fell apart he wasn't worse than the rest afterwards.
The only sin we have committed is that we have two players of Ramsey and Özil's class and we're about to lose them both because our manager, this unholy mix of all the bad points of Rafael Benitez and Jose Mourinho, doesn't see the point in creative players. Fucking hell.
Klaus, I really wonder if you direct too much anger at Emery.
I think the whole Ozil / Ramsey debacle is more the responsibility of Gazidis and co., that he found this mess.
Emery is basically in a situation where I suspect he has been told he has a limited budget (see Jan 2019), and needs to reconstruct a team, and is wary of committing 28m pounds a year in Ramsey and Ozil under the circumstances, particularly given that most of the team value is concentrated amongst them, Aubameyang, Lacazette and Mkhitaryan and it would be hard to play all or most simultaneously.
In this light, I think the club decided to shake Ozil and not re-sign Ramsey and, given this, the manager is limiting how much time he invests in them given they aren't part of the future plan. That's my outside sense. So on the surface it looks like an Emery mess up, but I suspect that at it's heart it is not an Emery issue but a broader Arsenal one.
