Clrnc wrote:
banduan wrote:
I don't think it's up to Arteta whether to release players. He clearly doesn't want Ozil in the squad for example.
Of course. Edu and co really fucked up massively not securing a deal for Kola or Sokratis for example. Both are leaving ASAP now, half a year late.
Ozil is different, he wants to intentionally stay here to receive all his salary without playing
He wants to earn all of his bonuses.
Which he won’t earn because he won’t play. But we can’t sit across the table from him and say we are going to give him a contract payout without his bonuses, because that would imply we were planning on defaulting on his contract, thus acting in bad faith.
So we should’ve offered to pay out his contract with a fair amount of his bonuses, ie equivalent to what he would’ve earned in a regular season based on his prior performances. And sent him off.
To have just the Ozil situation would be unfortunate. But to have had Ramsey, and now Saliba and all these other expiring contracts exhibits a club that is wholly incompetent at player contract management
