Arsenal: Aaron Ramsey to Chelsea is what nightmares are made of

Arsenal have had Aaron Ramsey pop up as a “shock summer transfer target” for Chelsea. Could there be any imaginable fate more horrifying?

Arsenal’s summer figures to be a hectic one, as they still haven’t locked down Jack Wilshere or Aaron Ramsey and there are going to be plenty of transfers and rumors of transfers, none of which will be able to be ruled out because of how ambitious the January transfer window was.

But before any of that, we now have the emergence of the first horrifying link – Ramsey to Chelsea.

On a personal level, my two favorite players at Arsenal had/have long been Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey. Losing one to Chelsea was bad enough. Losing both would be akin to a massacre.

But obviously this is much bigger than my own personal discomforts. Aaron Ramsey has been a hero to the Gunners, an absolute monster of a pressure stomper, nd to lose him would be to lose one of the few guys capable to turning a game on its head all by himself.

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Ramsey has secured the Gunners two FA Cups through his exploits, one of which ended the decade-long trophy drought, and he just has that unteachable instinct of being in the right place at the right time.

More than that, he is Arsenal, and while he weathered the part of the Gunners’ history that was fraught with tension, an era that many would like to forget, he has the club in his DNA and we can’t just sell off everyone that has that.

I have been making my peace with the fact that Ramsey might leave. He is bursting at the seams, hitting his prime in the best form since his breakout season, and he is ready to join the upper echelon of dynamic midfielders in the world of football.

There are naturally going to be some questions about whether or not he can accomplish that at Arsenal, as they spent so many years misusing him by playing him out of position.

Wherever Ramsey goes, if he goes, he will be something truly special. And to see that happening at Chelsea, where Frank Lampard, a Ramsey-esque midfielder, did it, would be too much. It would be foolish, moreso, because the Welshman still has so much to give.

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Thankfully, the Gunners are building a viable force around Ramsey to the point that I don’t see why Chelsea would look any better. But what this all might come down to is how the team builds in the summer.