Unless Özil is prepared to take something like an 80% pay cut, and bring his wages more in line with his return, then we can't afford him - it's that simple.

If our players want to be taking home that kind of money (and this goes for all of them) then they've got to be bringing CL revenue to the table - we've given them an extra 3 years on CL wages to prove that they can do it, but it hasn't happened, and now we're out of time. At this point, I think we need to consider offers for any player earning over £90k/wk - the only player above that level who I would say is 100% safe is Leno.