Arsenal: Moving on from Jack Wilshere easier done than said

Arsenal and Jack Wilshere have officially parted ways, which is a tough concept to swallow. But when you really get down to it, is it really?

Arsenal relied so much on Jack Wilshere for the longest time. Not so much on the pitch, but for the future of the club itself. When you’re touted as the future of a club for long enough, fans start to expect a certain level of performance out of you when you get to actually being on the pitch.

Not to mention the emotional attachment that comes with a player who is 100% Arsenal. For a club that spent the last decade struggling to get back to the glory of previous years, Wilshere was something to cling to as a symbol of the hope we all had in this club, centered on him.

Even as he grew towards his prime years without any great return, there was this lingering hope that once Wilshere hit his prime, we would be in the clear.

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That never happened. And now it will never happen, because Wilshere has left. When you sit here and talk about it, and reminisce about what might have, could have, should have, been, there is that inevitable desire to believe it can still happen.

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For that reason, it is hard to wrap our heads around what the club will be like without Wilshere.

And then you step past the talk and the expectations and the hopes and you realize it won’t actually be that hard. You often hear about how something is easier said than done, but with Wilshere, it’s the complete opposite. Wilshere is difficult to talk about, but when you get down to the brass tax of what needs to happen in order to make it okay, it’s pretty simple.

This was made easier by Wilshere’s inability to amount to anything consistent over the course of last season. As much as it hurts to admit, he wasn’t good enough, and for that reason, someone like Lucas Torreira should feasibly remove all lingering attachments to Wilshere.

We just have to get it done and get him on the pitch and realize that both club and player are better off without each other.

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And here I am again, feeling bad that I am saying such things about Wilshere, but again, it’s harder to talk about than it is to actually do. We will be just fine without him. And he will be just fine without us.