Arsenal: Losing Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere may be therapeutic

Arsenal have long been tied to this hope of a bright future, but losing Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey may be a therapeutic severing to reset that.

Arsenal’s decade of FA Cup trifecta but little else has been characterized by a bunch of clear themes – an unwillingness to change. There have been so many things that the club has relied on that just haven’t worked out.

Gradually, recently, they have been pushing away from those things. Dead weight has been cut and expectations and potential has either been capitalized on or reinvested elsewhere.

Even Arsene Wenger‘s power is filtering off to more sources than ever before. It leaves the Gunners with just two pillars of that unfulfilled era – Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey.

Both Gunners from their teenage years and, for Wilshere, long before even that, the hopes of the club have been pinned on this golden generation of Wenger-era wonderkids. Spots had long been reserved for these two to inherit the throne, so to speak.

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Again though, slowly but surely, that throne was filled. Wilshere’s was, at least, at the dependency on his potential faded into a dull hope for something great.

Ramsey has found more success, obviously, turning himself into a hero and a goal menace. He has been a fantastic presence and fulfilled the long-held hopes in his development and there are hopes for many more years to come.

But with both of their contracts running up and little progress apparently being made, I have come to try to find a positive or two buried in the utter despair I’m leaning towards. It’s not easy to do, as these are two players that I feel very positively about, and want to see them stay at Arsenal, for far more than sentimentality.

That said, if I were to dig for a positive, the one that I can find is that maybe it would be therapeutic to essentially cut out the last two remaining pillars of the olden days. Obviously there are still others on the team, but none that go back as far and none that were to have such a prominent role. Plus, the others that remain are all in their declining years anyway.

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There is a certain motivation in starting something afresh, and while it has been a process getting here, starting a new era at Arsenal, cleared of everything old, may be something to stand behind, even if done so with a deal of hesitation.

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