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I hadn't connected Ramsey's contract withdrawal to the formation change, but they do overlap in November. Gazidis on the other hand announced he was leaving in September.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might suggest that Ramsey and Ozil aren't being played, because if they do play and play well, fans might turn on Arsenal for letting Ramsey leave on a free and for trying to force Ozil out. That said, If coaching decisions are being made for pubic relations considerations, I have a huge issue with both the management and Emery.

 

The theory is that Emery isn't making the decision to not play Ozil: it's Sanllehi and/or Kroenke because Ozil makes too much money. The goal is to force him out by not playing him.

I'm expanding on that theory with Ramsey, because we had an agreement in principle, which then got pulled - my working theory is that we got to a certain point with Gazidis, things continued after he left, and Sanllehi pulled the offer after he consolidated his position.

Not playing Ramsey doesn't make any sense.

 

Also, why does HOLY SHIT stuff keep dropping on Fridays:

'When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.' 🙏🏼 || #DennisBergkamp pic.twitter.com/kKM8kDhm8T

— Mesut Özil (@M10) February 15, 2019

 

If the goal is to make the Champions League, not playing Ozil doesn't make much sense either.

 

Götzil

 

It just seems weird to me that Emery would try to sign Ozil while he was at PSG, and then decide he hated Ozil's game ten months later?

Makes more sense as a power play by Sanllehi given the timeline. Ozil played regularly until the November interlull. And he stopped playing after that. That's around the same time we started hearing stories that Ramsey's contract offer was pulled.

 

The upper management of the club has changed completely and new flavors of the same bullshit keep appearing. The only constant is Kroenke, so until proven otherwise this is Kroenke's fault.

 

I can see a world were Emery wanted Ozil at PSG but no longer wants him at Arsenal. Think about it...

Under Mourinho, Ozil showed he was capable of tracking back and pressing some.
Under Wenger he didn't track back much but he was more active than he is now and his offensive contribution was very good.
Under Emery he has played little to no D, he seems to refuse to press and his offensive contribution has been lacking.

 

Wengerball > Emeryball. Our chance creativity sucks. We don’t touch, we can’t hold, all we do is run the same play over and over. Quick triangle passes in the center, go wide, driven crosses...its elementary play. @yossarian meant to quote you

 

I’ve got a great track record running all streaks.

 

We've had some poor stretches and missed somes sitters but are still currently tied for 3rd in GF and are on pace for 77 which is 3 more then last season.

 

I would expect better, with Aubameyang available for the entire season and Lacazette not missing a long stretch of games due to injury, like he did last season.

 

It was easy to side with Emery over his dust up with Neymar at PSG, Neymar can behave like a petulant child, but seeing it repeated with Ozil, one has to wonder about his approach to big players. Strangely enough, in some ways Emery seems to be a throwback to an old school English coach, never mind the skill level, just give me 11 players that will run until they drop.

 

I feel bad for emery as I feel the ozil decision is above him

I don’t k ow how I feel at this point, back to the usual apathy lol

We won’t win anything, finish 6th and the cycle resumes

We can’t afford anyone to make us better, we need to do a spurs but that is not likely

 

Remember that Spurs were only able to do a Spurs because they sold Bale for a lot of money.

 

More like doing a Liverpool. Don't forget just how bad Liverpool were after Rafa left.

 

They mostly squandered the Bale money, though.

They’ve been much better since that fiasco, but I think there’s real evidence they’ve been extremely lucky in a lot of ways. Certainly Pochettino seems like a legitimate top-tier coach, but even that was basically winning the lottery.

It will be interesting to see if they can keep up the hot streak with recruitment in their coming austerity period.

And don’t even get me started on their injury luck...