I don't think it's that big a secret. Wenger wanted to keep a player that was unhappy and risk losing another on a free transfer. It seems as if he sees no mistakes or flaw in his logic and that's what's worrying. We're in a similar situation with two other players this season and i have the feeling he'd argue for us to keep them regardless or their contract situation like he did with Cesc and Nasri last summer. Maybe he feels if we'd have kept them, our season wouldn't have been such a disaster.