Quote Originally Posted by Power n Glory View Post
Come on Zim. I said the following. Why the confusion?



I already said the club should have sold him with two years left on his contract and not offered him a massive pay rise. He's not the player you want to retain at all costs because his performances don't reflect his value. The club messed up. But they messed up because of the demand from fans to retain their star player. As said you rate Ozil to this day and there is no way you'd understand why we sold him. Never. From you, it is always, 'why didn't we start negotiations earlier, why didn't pay the market rate, why didn't sell earlier'....then when the shit hits the fan 'why did we sell'. Every action the club takes, you'd see a negative. Especially if you rate Ozil and think the problem is around him and not actually the player himself. You also always seem to think that chucking money at the situation will solve the problem. But that's exactly why we're in this position with Ozil.
Well yes we're in agreement about that, but that wasn't an option as the club allowed him to run down his contract to 6 months, so what would you have suggested they do then, let him go for free in the summer, because that was the only option left.

That's subjective, you don't think he is, others would disagree, if we'd lost Ozil on a free I'd be disappointed for sure, as I would if we sold him and didn't get anyone decent in, but if we sold him and brought someone of quality and explained he didn't want to sign on with 2 years left, I'd probably understand as long as we replaced him (which was the issue before, selling quality without replacing them with adequate quality).

That's always my point, if you lose top quality, replace it with top quality.

It's worked well enough for Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool, so why not us, I'm tired of seeing us left behind, even by Liverpool now, quality players cost a lot but make a difference, Van Dijk at Liverpool has made a huge difference for example, trouble seems to be we're not willing to do that, I suspect due to Kroenke.