The players that must leave Arsenal this summer

Players that should leave Arsenal this summer by Mo

I know everyones thoughts are focused on the NLD tomorrow, but I have been thinking a little farther ahead about what Arsenal need to do in the summer. The fans and the media are everyday talking about what players we need to bring in, but very few think about what players we should get rid of. After seeing the Gunners hopeless displays in recent weeks, I have thought about what players we need to move on.

First there are the obvious ones: Arteta, Rosicky and Flamini. Most likely all of these players will leave in the summer when their contracts run out. But since Wenger is the manager i would not be surprised if he decided to give Flamini a contract extension instead of buying a proper DM.

Secondly there are the players that are out on loan: Szczęsny, Debuchy, Sanogo, Akpom, and Jenkinson (there are several others but most them have barely featured in the first team). In my opinion we should keep Ospina as our backup GK and sell Szczęsny on. He is not a world class goalkeeper and I and most fans never feel safe when he is in goal. He is too error-prone for my liking.

Debuchy has disrespected Wenger publicly so he will probably be shipped out in the summer. I personally would feel a lot safer knowing he is our second choice RB instead of Jenkinson who has gone from being one of the better West Ham players last season to playing badly, conceding penalties and losing his place in their team. Sanogo was never Arsenal quality, he is too slow and does not have the ball control or technique to play as a striker in this level. Hopefully our manager has realised that. Akpom is still young and will hopefully get a chance in the squad next season.

Thirdly the players in our first team that I personally want to get rid of. These are the players that I feel do not deserve to put on the red and white, some of them might be controversial and a lot of you will probably disagree with me, but this is my personal opinion.

The first one is Aaron Ramsey. He is now 25, has been in this club for 8 years and besides that one season when he was scoring a lot of goals he has done absolutely nothing in the other seven years. He is not a good dribbler, he always passes sideways or backwards and the few times Ramsey tries any forward passes most of them are misplaced (I have even seen him pass the ball out of the field recently). Aso he is the player that has been dribbled past more than any other in the BPL this season (51 times). He barely scores any goals, but the one thing that really annoys me is how many times he loses the ball in one game. How can he help Le Coq if he is the one creating the problem in the first place? Ramsey runs around like a headless chicken for 90 minutes and people are saying how he runs everywhere, well in my opinion Ramsey would be more beneficial for the club running alongside the linesman than inside the pitch.

Our English players are constantly injured therefore i personally feel like we cannot afford to have all of these players that barely contribute anything during the season in our 25 man squad. Wilshere, Walcott, Welbeck and the Ox are injury prone and i feel that at least one of them has to go in the summer to free up space and wages for incoming players. Welbeck has only been here a short time so he definitely deserves to stay, he has also provided us with some important goals. The Ox is young, he can get past opposing players and create chances out of nothing, so he of course stays. That leaves us with Wilshere and Walcott. Wilshere is injured more than he plays. He is still young and i personally will not give up on him yet. Walcott, on the other hand, has been in this club for 10 years and what has he really achieved? He is never consistent, one game he is great, the next he is horrible. I also don’t feel like he has the abilities necessary to play as a striker. That leaves only his pace which is the only attribute he has, but with teams always parking the bus against us, he barely gets to use that pace. That to me means he is redundant. I feel like its time to give up on him and I hope that players like Akpom or Gnabry can step up or we can buy another Striker/Winger.

To conclude these are the players I feel should leave in the summer. (Btw I love Rosicky but he is 34 and always injured, I will be sad to see him go).

Rosicky, Szczęsny, Arteta, Flamini, Sanogo, Ramsey and Walcott.

I do not want to speculate on incoming players because that would be pure guesswork, but with the new TV deal we should have no problem replacing these players. We will also get back players like Hayden, Jenkinson, Akpom and Gnabry when their loan spells end in the summer, and hopefully some youth players will take the step up like Iwobi has done this season.

Written by Mo from Norway (username makatelli)

224 Comments

  1. Reality check on wenger’s capacity in our usual adversity:

    Arsenal will beat Tottenham, Go away to Barca win 1:2 or 2:2 draw and win the next 9 premiership fixtures.

    Will it win us the league? I don’t know

    Personally & Defiantly i still want a major earthquake shake up…….BRITISH BOYS OUT!!!

      1. Let talk about that after the Spurs game . On another note ,even the press are beginning to see that Ramsey is the problem in the middle
        From football 365

        Consider the above with the fact that no Premier League player is dribbled past more times per game than the Welshman( Ramsey), and it makes for a damning indictment of his tactical discipline. The desperation to score goals and help in attack is admirable but foolish, something which must be tempered, nurtured and somewhat suppressed if looking to excel in a role which demands restraint, control and authority. It is no wonder Arsenal struggle when the player who should dictate their play is too busy revelling in his own ‘freedom’.

      1. We have to put all knowledge of a horrible 2016 form aside and take this match as a finale itself.. We cannot afford to lose! COYG!!!

    1. Yes, but he won’t be sacked. I hate to say it but it’s the firs time i really feel like Spurs will beat us hard… Still though, we’ve been beaten hard before and he’s still here so I don’t know if anything will help to get rid of him!

      1. I really don´t see what you see…

        If only we could have all 11 players on the pitch respecting the scouting report…

        Ramsey, Theo, and hate to say it…Mesut, you can´t turn it on and off when you want, especially on the defensive end of things…

    1. US Franchises are not the problem, letting Americans that should be running businesses run clubs is a bad idea.

      The English players that we have bought are the problem. I would go further and sell Ox as well, he is too error-prone, and does not put enough thought into what he is going to do when he gets into certain spaces. You can see the marked change in this type of mentality especially in a Campbell.

      What do we do with Ramsey for the rest of the season??

      And we thought Wenger was crazy for playing him on the wing. We all see now this is the location of the pitch where he can do the least amount of damage to us. This also keeps him in an isolated portion of the pitch and not the beheaded chicken routine. Barcelona still want him which tells me he has been given too much freedom with Wenger…as BCN has strict team rules for shape and spacing.

      I would play Welbeck and Sanchez up front and play Coq and El Nene together, Ramsey and Campbell wide…

    2. I´m American, and you know not what you speak of, respectfully. If that was the case we wouldn´t have the most professional sports clubs filing for bankrupt and having franchises moving their team in the middle of the night.

      I find it hilarious as well that the mantra on the other side of the pond is ´we´d be willing to go bankrupt to win a championship.´

      But don´t be surprised if American owners aren´t willing to follow an over-priced pipe-dream in a large majority of British footballers. So regardless of where you are from there are bad owners and managers…

    1. wilshere is the best player the english nation has, dont jump into conlusions on a men who is injuried. rather then that focus on the players who are playing now and had plenty of time to prove their woth

      1. Wilshere being injured for most of the season makes him useless most of the time though

  2. the only players I want to see remaining for next season are sanchez ozil cech koscienly monreal bellerin coquelin welbeck campbell chambers iwobi wilshere and cazorla.

    Get rid of the rest.

  3. My personal british invasion.”First team player” it’s either OUT of the first team or OUT of the club.

    Theo Walcott, average player, inconsistent, injury prone and technically inept
    Duration: 10yrs
    Verdict: SELL

    Jack whilshere, average player, inconsistent, injury prone and technically inept
    Duration: 15yrs
    Fact: No10 shirt is the farce of the decade worse than mayweather vs pachiao fight.
    Verdict: SELL

    Kiren Gibbs: average player, inconsistent, injury prone and technically inept
    Duration:12yrs
    Fact: he’s not the future, never gonna improve
    Verdict: Squad player

    Ox chamberlain: average player, inconsistent, injury prone and technically inept
    Duration:5yrs
    Fact: he always flatter to deceive, the odds is still against him he might just good and not great.
    Verdict: LOAN

    Danny Welbeck: Ox chamberlain: average player, inconsistent, injury prone and technically inept
    Duration:1 and half yrs
    Fact, he’s not the messiah and he’s never gonna rule rome.
    Verdict: Squad player.

    BRITISH OUT!!!

  4. My personal
    british
    invasion.”First
    eleven player”
    it’s either OUT
    of the first eleven or OUT of the
    club.

    Theo Walcott, average player,
    inconsistent, injury prone and
    technically inept
    Duration: 10yrs
    Verdict: SELL

    Jack whilshere, average player,
    inconsistent, injury prone and
    technically inept
    Duration: 15yrs
    Fact: No10 shirt is the farce of the
    decade worse than mayweather
    vs pachiao fight.
    Verdict: SELL

    Kiren Gibbs: average player,
    inconsistent, injury prone and
    technically inept
    Duration:12yrs
    Fact: he’s not the future, never
    gonna improve
    Verdict: Squad player

    Ox chamberlain: average player,
    inconsistent, injury prone and
    technically inept
    Duration:5yrs
    Fact: he always flatter to deceive,
    the odds is still against him he
    might just be good but not great.
    Verdict: LOAN

    Danny Welbeck: average player,
    inconsistent, injury prone and
    technically inept
    Duration:1 and half yrs
    Fact, he’s not the messiah and
    he’s never gonna rule rome.
    Verdict: Squad player.

    BRITISH OUT!!!

  5. NL “D” day !!!
    COYG 🙂
    We’re the gooners
    and we’re gunning
    Arsenal are coming never losing hope
    We’re making something out of nothing
    Red and white London town
    Arsenal gonna run this town
    Arsene Wenger shut it down
    All the gooners jump around
    there’s rumours on the underground

  6. I just hope AW isn’t his stubborn silly self, and does something stupid like pur Ramsey or Welbz on the right wing instead of Joel, to try and show the booing fans he was right and they were wrong. JC shouldn’t be used as a pawn anymore he deserves to be a real footballer.

    1. Well he has done it, and put JC on the bench. Red Thumb Down man, you better hope coz hell will break loose if he looses with his team selection.

  7. every ones thought is focusf on the NLD “tommorrow”… its “today” in less than 1 n a half hrs from now admin..

  8. All this talk of what players should leave!

    How about changing the manager? Otherwise everything stays the same or goes backward..

    I will get excited about a new team when there is a new manager and a new potential for glory.

  9. To our American cousins over the pond.
    You don’t even refer to it by its right name.
    FOOTBALL. Known the world over as football
    and you keep calling it soccer. Get that right then we can discuss the plus and minus of ownerships
    Having said my piece glad of the USA support for the GOONERS.

    1. It’s not about nationalities it’s about the support they give to the club.

      Kroenke didn’t buy the biggest share holding in Arsenal for love of the club or because he is a football fan. He bought it as one of numerous investments because he knows it lines his pockets well.

      The sooner he and Wenger go the better it will be for the ‘football’ club in terms of success on the playing field (where it matters most) and not just the bank balance.

  10. I think that Wenger has a plan for the Spuds ??
    Todays line up!

    Ospina
    Bellerin
    Mertesacker
    Gabriel
    Gibbs
    Coquelin
    Elneny
    Ramsey
    Ozil
    Sanchez
    Welbeck

  11. Kick off is in 42 minutes and team has been announced so where is the build up? And let’s have some positivity and none of the negative who should go crap!

  12. Wengers team today:

    Steve Bould
    Ozil Ramsey Bellerin Giroud
    Wilshere Ramsey dale winton Cher
    Wellbeck
    Walcott

  13. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH STICKING WITH RAMSEY? WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS MAN? WHY NOT CAMPBELL? HE’S WORK RATE IS ONE TO NONE AND HE MOVES HIM TO RIGHT. EVERYTHING IS FINE IN THE LINE UP APART FORM LEAVING JC ON THE BENCH..IF WE LOSE TODAY MUST BE CURTAINS.

  14. You do not need to worry about the new manager joining arsenal. if he becomes a yes man just like wenger, the fans will know who to aim their concerne against. right now wenger is the problem

    wenger in this time of situations, is the only person who is protecting the board from the fans. fans surely have enough of wenger and respect him for the time he has spend at arsenal. but waiting forever is a little bit to much, and if he is smart and not sick in his head. he is kinda sick bec as he has no life besides football.

    he will resign and live his life as some football reporter. if not for him being sacked again like the french tv station did for babbling bs.

  15. Campbell was the best player against swansea, so, he won’t get to start against spuds, Ramsey was the worst and he’s got to replace Campbell. What a me Le Bottler!

    1. Sell the lot of them, wrap up the business sell the land for building and give a %profit to long suffering fans, (all a joke by the way). Hope I’m wrong but I think we’re going to get annihilated today. If sanchez comes good and well eck is on it we may get something. Wtf is Ramsey playing ahead of Campbell on the wing? #ficklefavouriteswenger

  16. what has RAMSEY got to do to get outof them
    and qhat campbell has to do get in
    totally gutted to see rambo in the team !

  17. The fan’s booed wenger for taking off Campbell,
    So the deluded one gets bitchie by benching Campbell for the this game! ? ?

    I can’t wait for Flamini to come on to replace Coquelin and then drop kick Kane! ?

  18. This is Spud-tacus and Flamini wants his Warrrrrr!!

    Flamini is on the bench and no doubt that he will be spending most of his time warming up by the touch line; Practicing his kung-fu – kicks!.. Readying himself for action!

    His mission: Take out as many Spuds as possible,
    in the time it takes the ref to pull out a red card!

  19. Ramsay is the worst player in the midfield right now, Ospina could have done a better job there… so disgusted to see Campbell on bench. Typical Wenger tactics…
    Frankly speaking Ozil has improved a lot, especially he tries to put in a couple of challenges here and there.. And then he passes to Sir Giroud /Walcott, who do nothing

  20. Admin is late again with his line ups! ?
    must be drowning his sorrows already!
    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????

  21. the way we have played till now i hope that we only lose it marginally… getting routed at the lane would be scandalous

  22. BELLERIN STRUGGLING BECAUSE RAMSEY IS ON THE BLOODY LEFT WHERE ALEXIS IS AND NOT HELPING..WHY HE THINK IS DOING? LACK OF DISCIPLINE EVEN PLAYING ON THE WING. WE NEED CAMPBELL IN THAT PLACE SOON

  23. Wow …i can’t believe the difference in effort and organization … If manager can’t get basics right the rest ain’t worth jack sh@@ …someone will get sent off coz of this

    1. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? SPURS IS NOT LETTING THEM ANY SPACE WITH THIR PRESSING AND BECAUSE THE LEFT BACK ARE BOMBING FORWARD SPECIALLY ON THE LEFT WERE RAMSEY LEAVES BELLERIN EXPOSE.ARE YOU WATCHING SAME GAME? GABRIEL GUTS IS WHAT WE NEED TODAY NOT PRETTY WIN.

  24. its very clear that only one team is out there trying to win… the other is just to mark attendance and collect the week’s paycheck

    1. LOST IT? HE’S BEEN OUTNUMBER ON THE RIGHT BECAUSE RAMSEY IS ON THE LEFT WHERE HE SHOULD NOT BE AND LAMELA WITH ROSE ARE DOING ONE TWOS

  25. Ramsey driving me mad and elneny looks light weight. Love Gabriel spirit then, have we found our leader? Campbell for Ramsey please, (will never happen).

  26. welbeck, bellerin, ramsey, goal.
    Where the f@@k is giroud, sanchez and ozil when we are attacking?

  27. must go-mert,arteta,Jack,theo
    all on loan must go as well
    with all that money plus £95mln given to spend get Di Maria and 4-5 more,1-2 for each line,smart and hard working players,don’t have to be exceptional
    also,should give some role in the club to Henry and,possibly,Zidane,since he will be available in the summer

  28. Everytime I have something negative to say about Ramsey, he proves me wrong! I’ll continue until he gets a hatrick!

  29. That goal was exactly what we needed. Welbeck tormenting them and our back 6 looking pretty solid. Expecting more from Sanchez and Ozil though. COYG!!!!

  30. Oooospina. We should stop playing unnecessary passes to the gk. Thats how routeledge the scored equaliser against us

  31. Play players in their correct positions and see what happens!

    World class finish. Messi would have enjoyed that.

    Wellbeck should have made it 2. We could regret that.

  32. second half they will come pressing us all over again from the way go..guts needed and let’s kill them on the counter…COME ON

  33. WELL NOW WE ARE GONNA SUFFER ..WHAT HE WAS THINKING? NOW WE GOT BALL WATCHING AN EL NENY ..WC DM DO NOT DO THIS.

  34. coq should have come off, no way that hot head was not going to make a bad decision, now we have to try to hang on 35″

    1. @luvdaguns,
      we all know he should of come off mate, but unfortunately we have nobody on the bench even half decent to take the DM role and our manager is clueless anyway.

  35. Why on earth is Coquelin making that tackle there.
    Why is Mertesacker shouting at him saying DON’T make that tackle……

    We’re up against it now

  36. Since 2008 when Gilberto left the club we have not bought in a top DM and have been paying the price since.

  37. I want wenger to leave after this and if he doesn’t he is an insult to this once great club .. And the yank needs to go to,he makes me vomit even more

  38. Thank you Francis Coquelin you f’n idiot, how stupid are you, hope you never start a game again

  39. gutted… absolutely gutted, they have kane, our feature striker is on the bench… becuz he cant score…

  40. Would it have not been a great idea to replace coquet in with flamini at half time? Here we go again!

  41. Blow the whistsle, i can’t watch this not more.
    I’m so angry.
    ARSENAL YOU JOKE

  42. Coquelin sent off, so Wenger already has his excuse ready for the press as to why we lost. Pathetic, get out of here, you’re ruining this club.

    1. keep sleeping for another 4-5 hours maybe you can dream that Alexis scores a hat trick and we end up winning 4-2.

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