Nice article from David Walsh on Unai's impact

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There is no if in regards to the Welsh, we are selling Ramsey or more accurately allowing him to leave, one cannot call it a sale if the exit is left until the summer and no fee is received.

I have no idea what is occurring with Ozil. The manner of his excusion from Bournemouth was simply beyond logic and hints at issues, his continued absence since then, including for some huge domestic games, on the basis of a back injury, a little suspicious at best. Given the drain he is on the relative limited finances available to the club I for one would not be surprised one jot to see him leave.

It would be wrong of you to suggest there absence removes all creativity from the current playing staff and anyway I would expect the new summer window to be quite a busy period for us.

There is another possibility we should not dismiss - Ozil mans up, listens to Unai, and turns into the player he could be and the club get a big boost as a world class player reaches his potential for us. Just saying like...

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There is another possibility we should not dismiss - Ozil mans up, listens to Unai, and turns into the player he could be and the club get a big boost as a world class player reaches his potential for us. Just saying like...

Well yes, not impossible at all, he could awaken from his absence this weekend and put in a stellar performance as we all know he can, however one cannot but think that is a slim prospect given events of recent weeks.

Remember this is a man retired from the rigours of international football, a man who relatively speaking would have been well rested but was then deemed to be not up for the fight of Bournemouth where he was clearly not injured.

His sore back having come afterwards.

Nah, this all stinks of pish. This is Mourinho v Pogba without the lunatic egotistical element of that particular shítfest.