Originally Posted by
The Emirates Gallactico
You're conflating his power/authority with him being omnipresent.
Wenger does get final say on nearly everything at the club (or certainly used to until recent changes) including how the wage system should operate, but outside of telling a player whether he has a future or not at the club & perhaps telling them directly whether he wants them to stay, he doesn't get into the technical details of contracts. He's just one man ffs who can't be everywhere doing nearly everything at the club. That's left to Dick Law, Ivan etc who meet with the player representatives and really hammer out the details to convince them to stay which is where the assurances would have been given I suspect.
And you can't be telling me that another top club wouldn't have picked up Ozil on a FREE? I mean just for marketing purposes he's valuable asset - he's got more twitter followers than the club. The likes of PSG, Man Utd, Chelsea, Juventus etc would have been all over him.
Of course. The club are hardly going to admit to them or give them any credence at this stage are they? As I said above, they've got too much respect for Wenger to dismiss him until at least the summer. But it's the timing of them that was very convenient - they came straight after Ozil resigned.
He'd be on a free PnG which means he would have got a lot higher wages than had he been bought with a transfer fee as that would have just either gone into a signing on bonus or higher wages. That's usually how these things work - I think Kolosanic is on ridiculously high wages here for the same reason.
And I don't disagree that he's been underwhelming which is why no one was prepared to pay a fee for him, but as I said to HCZ plenty of clubs would have taken him on a free.
There's no doubt he's a very talented player and like a lot of players at the club currently, we're not getting the best out of him due to Wenger's incompetence. A change of club could have caused him to flourish. And 10's may be falling out of favour but talented, skillful players like Ozil are always valuable - Man City have the likes of De Bruyne, Silva, Gundogen regularly featuring for them in their lineup. Ozil on his day is as good if not better than them.
I thought it was clear Sanchez went for money primarily. Only about 3 or 4 clubs in the world can offer 600k a week and we're certainly not one of them. Jack's stalling because we've offered him lower wages and Ramsey has apparently just changed agents so we have to wait around a bit to get him resigned.