The effects of the Ramsey contract renewal are still being felt… by the player.
“Hopefully somebody will come up and tell me why,”
“I’ll accept that if there’s a reason. When the time is right, I probably will find out but that hasn’t happened yet.
“There is no contract on the table at the moment so there is nothing for me to consider or whatever. We all know that the contract was taken away off the table. I’m not sure exactly why because a few weeks before we sort of agreed and I was ready to sign.”
“I think any player who is on the bench would be disappointed not to play but I’m part of the team and I want the team to do well,” he said. “We are all in it together to try and achieve the same objective. I’m going out and playing the way I have always played. I try to give my best for the team, help the team and try and go out there and play the best I can for myself as well. Nothing’s in my head when I’m out there; I’m just trying to have fun on the football pitch.
Kind of tough to read, he’s been an excellent servant to us, won 3 FA Cups, broke his leg and came back from hell… the fans love him. He’s one of our own, and it’ll be quite sad to see him exit.
I think the move is quite shocking, because we’ve been dicked around by players for the best part of 20 years. It feels alien that the board would initiate such an aggressive retraction. However, you can see why. Ozil bent us over the barrel with his outrageous deal, but at the very least, he has a commercial value. He’s the face of Adidas, he has sycophantic fanboy son all continents and he’s a world class player.
Aaron on the other hand is much admired, but he’s not kicked his game up to mega money levels. If you’re looking at this rationally, you have to look at the Welshman’s output and what £300k a week would mean for Emery’s ability to make big moves this summer.
How big has the impact been from Torreira? Massive. He’s earning no more than £65k a week. How much potential do we have in Matteo G? Unreal amounts. What’s he going to be earning, £40k a week. Then you have Ramsey, who can’t seem to operate with Ozil or Mikhi, hasn’t been able to cement a preferred positon at 28, and has suspect fitness… and he’s demanding 4.6x Torriera… I mean, that’s fucking insane.
I think the deal was pulled for a number of reasons. Firstly, Emery realised pretty quickly that Aaron at #10 was never going to be as sublime as Ozil. Then he probably noted that to be truly effective, you have to give him a free role… but he’s not really good enough to be afforded that sort of luxury. Emery needs cogs that work in his machine. Wenger had a crack at making art, but it eventually crashed us in also-rans.
The Aaron Ramsey debacle is what happens when you buy pieces without a grand vision. That’s why our squad is still in a mess. There was never a plan. Bottle them up, shake, pray for the best was the strategy and it just stopped working in the end. Sven, Raul and Emery now have to unpick the mess, and they’re going to struggle to do that with £600k worth of talent that can’t play together.
Ramsey was the sacrificial lamb. It’s cost him a fortune, and no doubt it’s set us back £50m in transfer fees.
But the show goes on… sport is ruthless, but it’s hard to feel too much for a man who makes more in a week than most do in a year. He’ll be ok, probably end up at United or Chelsea, and he’ll have a good close to his career.
At least he’s not going to Spurs.
I’m just excited big decisions are being made on data, guiding principles and a master plan.
We’ve dreamed of this… it’s happening… suck it up and enjoy the ride.
The real banter? Carl Jenks will be the last Brit standing from that famous British Core announcement. Guy has more sticking power than curry on a white a shirt. Legend. x
Bit up against it early on
Out first half woes continue
Are we going too have enough gas to mount a second half comeback?
Wow we are getting kinda carved apart. Squad needs a bit of a breather
Signature dish in the 1H programme called ‘riding the storm’…
We are being ripped apart defensively at will. Need to hold out until the second half when we are usually a different team.
Can someone tell me why Bellerin is never marking the man on the right hand side? Why is he always sucked infield? He’s a liability
Why are we playing such a high line?
That was a second yellow I don’t care what anyone says.
Good pressing from Iwobi.
Laca ought to be scoring that …sorry… should be burying that.
Lacazette should have done better with that.
Bellerin took way too long to fire that off
Bellerin did a Ramsey taking several touches before shooting. Wasted.
Marko – What?
Explain where I making it seem like it is a gimme for them.
Them being 15th means sweet fuck all. Better than a lot of teams above them.
This is bloody poor.
Just watched torreira yelling at xhaka who was out of position, who then ran faster than I’ve seen him to get back to his man.
Even that is making me feel good about this team. Loving it.
Guendouzi has been a zombie when starting in the last month or so.
Play Ramsey there.
Ref
Come on no foul There
Xhaka is doing well at LB
We have no left side attack with Xhara at LB and Auba moves inside mostly.
Need Monreal back asap.
Guendouzi gives it away there but gets straight back in to support Mustafi
Last season Mustafi defends alone there
Such a small thing but what a difference it makes to our defence
Mustafi looking far more accomplished in this set up now and growing alongside holding.
Up and up
Yellow there for kayoute the little wanker
Goo b
Saw that
Totally agree
It’s not a bloody poor game, considering we are playing our 3rd game in three days.
Guendouzi has been a zombie when starting in the last month or so.Play Ramsey there.
Ramsey has been worse than a zombie all season
Great to see Matteo and Torreira playing as our two central midfielders, has the potential to develop in to a great combo.
****It’s not a bloody poor game, considering we are playing our 3rd game in SEVEN days
Paulinho
Nah. Other than that one give-away, Guendouzi has been excellent.
Un na,
It is the little things for sure. The 2 cms never want to shy away from the ball. And actually want to stick a leg in defensively or track a midfield runner. It’s great to see even when we aren’t playing great.
Maybe we need two play makers in mid to overcome them disciplined at the back
Someone is more interested in Ramsey playing and proving him right than the team doing well
This game needs Mister Welbeck and the Welsh Wonder. Iwobinho and Guenzizou early candidates to be pulled.
We’re not winning this match by sitting back and absorbing pressure. We’ve been pinned back. Welbeck and Ramsey will push us 10 yards higher
Paulinho???
Guendouzi has been good. Why the hell would we play Ramsay there?? He’s leaving. He’s got a bad attitude. He doesn’t defend. He’s 4th choice there now. He’s off. Accept it
The way ozil drops the shoulder and let’s a ball run gives him so much space from nowhere all the time. Very very easy to watch. Now he just needs to create something haha
Ayew making a full sunday dinner out of that.
Jordan Ayew should have had a yellow card [and sending off] for flopping like a pillow
Maybe we’re too deep ?
Jordan Ayew should have accumulated enough yellow cards to be sent off twice.
Fuck off Atkinson
Ayew shouldn’t have even been on the pitch to make that dive. So it’s lucky for the ref he didn’t call it.
Poor 1H, not unexpected.
Created very little.
The Bellerin dillydally was more than a half chance.
Zaha hit the base of pole.
Lets see what Leno has here, they missed last time
And people were saying Mutafi had improved. He is a shit defender.
Mustafi is fucking useless.
Well I don’t think he took a dive. Went down easy yes, and was clipped as Mustafi crossed behind him, but went down very easy.
Also fuck me that was horrible.
What a shocking tackle from Mustafi there.
Mustafi was trying to clear the ball
Kouyete was trying to get pole-axed.
Bellerin is a horrible defender
I’m sorry, but that’s another poor touch from Iwobi and a give-away of possession. That’s the sixth time, by my count, that he has lost us possession. I know that people are happy about the work-rate he has been giving us, but he doesn’t have the quality to be in the XI, IMO. Not enough quality, not enough class.
Merson, Souness and the likes will be chuffed with that goal. Silly from Mustafi.
Why would Mustafi go to ground? The player was facing away from goal
Terrible decision by Mustafi
Mustafi again, at the worst possible time.
Been too pedestrian in this first half again.
Need to show more will now.
Cunts
Time for the obligatory second half blitz??? Let’s hope so
Palace have belief now. First home goal of the season.
CP never scored at home this season.
It had to be Arsenal who makes all such records!
Mustafi panicked and did not need to go to the ground.
Shows how bad the Bellerin chance looked now…
Mustafi had to go for that ball. Nothing wrong with the tackle.
No complaints about the pen but Townsend marking Leno on a corner is a bit of a cunt
This would have to be one of our weakest defensive 4 in years though.
Even if the middle of the park is more solid defensively ahead of them.
Cue the second half show from arsenal.
Chelsea has gotten 2 yellow cards for flopping about, why hasn’t Ayew gotten a second yellow???
Maybe it’s an indictment of our poor front four in any sort of tough environment away from home, but we could do Ramsey’s runs from deep. Have zero faith in any of Iwobi, Ozil, Aubameyang doing something against aggressive well-drilled defence.
Stil think Guendouzi has been far too passive and lethargic and we need some forward thinking energy in there.
Welbeck, Ramsey for Iwobi, Guendouzi please
Bamford and Iwobi
No need to apologize before sticking one in. We all know where you stand regarding the 22 year old academy product.
Needless tackle
Still we need to aim better n higher next half
Today worst players
1- Mustafi
2- Bellerin
Iwobi , Ozil, Auba need to step up
Tr7
He’s looked more accomplished in this set up for sure. However I can’t deny the fact that this was schoolboy defending. Until we get better he must be protected
I think Bellerin has improved too
Of course they would. They’re being coached defensively now
I hope ozil fan boys are enjoying this game. These guys think they are home and dry, ozil even disappeared against cp, iwobi playing like an imbecile, zhaka never made a forward pass, no one comes to drive the ball forward, gendouzi shits himself whenever he has to contest
Welbeck in place of Iwobi please
What will all these people with boners for Ramsey do when he leaves in the summer.
You would think Ramsey plays with thong and a cape, the way they talk about him.
Iwobi is inadequate. Not starter material.
Our winning run comes to an end here. The game is too pedestrian and our players don’t look interested.
Palace haven’t even pressed us that much.
They’ve let us have the ball in our own half and they know we happy to coast and not really go for it, and then they can feed off our lethargy and catch us off guard at the back.
All 3 of the attackers can’t exactly do worse than that and Ozil has reverted to type. He has to start exuding more control on this game.
I keep saying I’m not at all sure about Aubameyang at LM and personally I would have kept him as an impact player for this game. Having said that Lacazette has had a bad game so far as well. It is a case of 2 up front or 1 at a time I think.
Palace haven’t even targeted Xhaka that much yet either.
I still think we win the game
Ozil and Iwobi out for Mykhi and Welbeck.
Dale
Ayew’s first yellow was very harsh, so you couldn’t really expect the ref to send him off for that semi-dive.
Hopefully, he’ll get his second pretty soon, that would be great news given how we’ve played so far.
Noooooooooo
Why is Auba so anonymous? We have him and Laca and we can’t even put clear chances or trouble them often…
Dale
Ayew’s first yellow was very harsh, so you couldn’t really expect the ref to send him off for that semi-dive.
Hopefully, he’ll get his second pretty soon, that would be great news given how we’ve played so far.
2 goals and we’re above City till at least tomorrow night.
Second half will be pretty telling in terms of our expectations for this season imo.
Leno’s clearance attempt on the corner was lame as well. Led to the panic of the defenders.
Should note Ayew also chopped Torreria down right after he had got a yellow.
The players should be giving back what Xhaka often gets, try to wind up Ayew now and draw fouls from him.
Same for Kouyate as well.
My consternation is that people revert to bashing the player they’ve always hated rather than the state of the game.
Ozil has been non existent this game, as is Iwobi, Bellerin, Laca and a host of other players.
Torriera isn’t have a good game either.
There’s something wrong with the way we start games. It’s been season-long.
Ayews a lucky boy, Holdings shirt was ripped off before that corner.
Piss poor 1H
Iwobi back to old self. Wayward passing, turnovers, not cool.
Ozil still waking up.
Auba non existent. Laca trying but…
Watching the Mustafi lunge again. It’s amateurish, rash and stupid. The guy was back to our goal ffs…
Get rid of Mustafi. Proven not good enough.
We can’t lose at CP. Liverpool made a reservation!
If palace score early can’t see us winning.
Really wish the media would stop pushing this Lacazette, Auba bromance nonsense.
They don’t have a special on-field partnership at all, and Auba should never start on the left again. Thought Emery had already realised that.
Dale
Because he isn’t a wide player. He’s a CF. But he’s being played wide. It simply doesn’t suit him.
Our main issues
1) we look leggy. Emery at fault for not rotating midweek
2) Individual mistakes from the back six.
Organisation/”coaching” helps you only so much.
3) No outlets. We need more off the ball movement
There’s something wrong with the way we start games. It’s been season-long.
Very concerning. It’s like the players need a bollockingn before the game and not at half time.
We really ought to play 2 upfront, and i think Iwobi has played better on the left in recent games
Laca ought to have score from that chance that Iwobi presented to him
Guendouzi has been barking for movement when he has the ball. Ozil is too passive, on and off the ball.
Ozil and Auba (on the left) should not start together in a tough away game. If you’re going to play Ozil, then you have to play Welbeck to at least have a permanent nuisance in attack and not a shadow. Welbeck would have asked them many more questions than Auba or Ozil.
Dissenter
“My consternation is that people revert to bashing the player they’ve always hated rather than the state of the game.”
If you’re referring to me and Iwobi, this is complete nonsense. I’m just watching the game closely and carefully. He has lost possession for us six times, more than any other Arsenal player. And each time it has been the result of a poor touch, a poor decision or a poor pass.
I like his work-rate; I like his running. It remains the case, however, that he lacks quality. Just as I said the other night.
Leno was blocked by a CP guy with no defender in between at all. Strange.
Ayews had to be our target. Get him professionally sent off.
No creativity from Iwobi and Ozil. Little from Guendouzi in 1H other than spraying the ball. Bellerin bombing forward is all we have. Xhara couldn’t bomb forward.
Lichsteiner coming on.
If licht is on for bell? Do you think it’s now a back 3?
Iwobi has been very good playjng on our left flank. Very surprised Emery decided to play him on the other side of our attack.
Whatever the outcome of this match the poor first half nonsense has lasted too long.
With Xhaka at LB, we’ve lost the ability to progress the ball into the final third. That’s the singular skill he provides us that we lack in the squad
Bellerin off….looks like Emery isn’t impressed…i agree, unless he is injured
That bird on commentary sticks out like a sore thumb. Just a pretty face
Not looking like it from the first min or 2. Don’t mind me haha
This just got worse.
Bamford
If the cap fits, then it was probably addressed to you [if that’s how you see it]
Iwobi is not the only payer who’s had a dismal first half.
80% of the team didn’t perform , same as Iwobi.
Ozil, Auba, Laca, Torriera….
Why is that that you’re avidly stuck on Iwobi?
Bellerin is hurt? Hope it’s not serious. Need young AMN back. He played 60 mins for the U23s on Friday.
Hate to say it
Palace more organised than us…
Maybe want it more