Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post

I honestly don't know how this club got itself in this mess, got to be down to pure incompetence.
Think we've wasted a lot of money since the stadium was paid off and we don't get any value for our players that leave, Oxlade is perhaps the only exception to this in recent memory. I mean, Wilshere, Ramsey and probably Welbeck all leaving without a transfer fee, that's got to be around 80m in today's market? We also passed up on 60m for Alexis when it was clear he no longer wanted to be here but he was instead moved on 6 months later and we got an average player in return.

We also broke our wage structure for Ozil and I imagine Auba and Laca aren't too far behind. Mkhi too.

Seems like the club is trying to do a bit of housekeeping to me and we won't really know the state of play until the summer.