Quote Originally Posted by Power n Glory View Post
You just said in your previous post that we could have sold Ozil if we wanted to even with just 6 months on his contract. So why didn't we? I'm not saying we should have let him walk on a free because there were other options. 1) Sell him with two years on his contract. 2) Sell him with one year on his contract at a cut price. For whatever reason, we couldn't and I guess it's tough for fans to accept that maybe nobody actually wanted the lazy bastard.

Which brings us on to another issue. These are the stakes at hand when you spend big on players that flop. The club have done shoddy business in the past but on this occasion, they did the right thing but for the wrong player. You've done a pretty good job of deflecting for this debate. We lost Sanchez but brought in Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang. Has that slipped your memory? Top quality for top quality.

But the past is the past. What do we do now about an overpaid player that his past his prime and doesn't look like he fits into the current system? Can he adapt or do we cut our losses?
I'm not sure if we could, but 6 months is too late, the player has very little value then, we'd get peanuts and wouldn't be able to replace him and that's if we could find a buyer then.

The two years thing wasn't an option, we left it till the last 6 months, so we only had two options, to keep him or lose him (for peanuts then or free in the summer), yes ideally we'd have sold him with 2 years, but the club messed up as they did with Sanchez and now Ramsey (and you could argue Wilshere when Man City came in form him).

Sanchez didn't want to stay, he made it clear, if a player doesn't want to stay you and his contract has nearly run out you don't really have many options, Ozil was happy to stay that's the difference so that was the only option, so we could have lost Sanchez and Ozil or kept 1 and we managed to do the latter and made the best out of a very bad situation.

Mhiki I'm not a huge fan of to be honest, he flopped at Man U and if not for Sanchez walking away for free we probably would have never gone in for him, we made the best out of a bad situation as mentioned, but he doesn't really fit into our team as what we needed was a winger not another central player.
Aubameyang was good business I grant you.

Well now Ozil can be sold for a fee at least as he's under contract, though I would think this won't happen, the club signed him up and will probably want to keep him (and Emery won't have any say in that I would think). As for the past, it's not really the past now as we've repeated the same thing with Ramsey unless we somehow sell him before the end of August, because we'll again get no money for a player we could get maybe 30-35 million for otherwise which is a waste IMO.