Arsenal: Jack Wilshere saga proving that Arsene Wenger was the heart

Arsenal’s ongoing situation with Jack Wilshere has a lot of people in a tizzy, but isn’t this what people wanted? Le Prof was the heart of the club.

Jack Wilshere is Arsenal. We’ve know this for awhile. His misfortunes mirrored the clubs and his successes did similar. There was so much untapped potential there, on both sides.

Now, we are nearing an end that many would never have saw coming – Wilshere leaving on a free to pursue his career elsewhere. With just a few months left on his contract, Wilshere has made it clear that little progress is being made.

Apparently the club are offering him a pay cut in order to center the new deal on incentives. The more he plays, the more he is paid. Call it protection for the ongoing injury problems. It’s not a bad idea. In fact, it’s very practical and smart.

But the fact that they are asking Wilshere to take a pay cut can be construed, from Wilshere’s point of view, as a slap in the face, and insult and, if nothing else, a cutthroat move from a club that Wilshere has grown up with.

You may even call it heartless.

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That’s what everyone wanted, right? They wanted Arsene Wenger out of his position of power, more power distributed elsewhere, so that the club would stop holding onto players like Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud.

They were sold because Wenger was out of his position of power. Other people are clearly in charge of the transfer market now and that includes contracts and selling players that are seen as “emotional” attachments.

Well, a byproduct of that is what we now see in Wilshere. Yes, Wilshere is Arsenal, but there’s no denying that he has not played a big part in the progression of the team over the past several years. When he’s on the pitch, he can have a big impact, but the key word is “when.”

It’s not like Wilshere has earned a pay raise. In fact, he hasn’t. He has if you think a lot of his emotional attachment to the club and the spirit that he brings, but, again, that is part of the detachment from Wenger.

Wenger has his flaws, but caring is not one of them. He clung to certain players like they were his own children and Wilshere was one of those players. He never wanted to let him out of his sight.

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It sucks to accept, but I fear that without Wenger pulling strings, Wilshere may be another byproduct of the removal of emotion from club decisions.

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