Quote Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur View Post
I can understand why Ox left and add that to what Chesney said about his development, it's understandable. If Wenger couldn't develop Ox into a CM or winger, you'd have to be insane to trust him to turn you into a proper wingback. Ox moving made sense to me. Especially when you factor in that we were slow to offer him a contract. Wilshere is sitting in that same boat right now. We haven't developed him as a player, he's suffered injury after injury because of poor management and now his career at Arsenal is on the line. Moving to Bournemouth for game time was the wrong move but I understand it. If you don't take things into your own hands to try and raise your stock, you may end up frozen out of the squad like Walcott and be in no mans land. Gibbs is another example of that.
Personally I'm happy to see as many of the weak minded brittle players like ox, Theo and Gibbs from the banter era leave. Their weak mentality seeps through the squad.