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Arsenal have already lost Aaron Ramsey, if you believe the numerous reports out there. Which means that the hardest part of all of this is yet to come.
It’s hard to discern what the future holds regarding Arsenal and Aaron Ramsey. So many sources are saying that he has already left the club, and that he will run out the remaining months of his contract before moving to a “bigger club.”
That sucks. The indecision and lack of official notice sucks. Knowing that we don’t know everything, that we are due to repeat the same roller coaster of last January, sucks. There is a lot about this that sucks.
Frankly, I just want Ramsey to thumb his nose at everyone, sign a new deal, laugh, and say “haha, you all don’t know anything. I was always going to stay.” I want nothing more than that. But that doesn’t seem likely to happen.
Meaning that the hardest part of this whole ordeal is yet to come. The hardest part isn’t the uncertainty, or accepting that he is leaving, or worrying about what happens next.
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The hardest part is watching him perform while we know that he is gone. It happened first against Fulham, with that magnificent backheel finish that started with him as well. That was textbook Ramsey. The celebration, the upturned palms and the resigned look, said everything, as has been pointed out.
“This is what you’re missing,” that look said. And oh, don’t we know it.
You can’t just let Ramsey rot on the bench for the rest of the year. As much as I feel like that may actually be the best way to mitigate the damage, you just can’t do it. He means too much to the club, he can do too much, and it would be foolish and, dare I say petty, if he wasn’t given as many chances to change matches as possible.
And that factors into the hardest part, of watching him perform and wishing he would stay. This part that we can’t really do anything else. The club needs him. His teammates need him. He makes everyone around him better and until we have a chance to replace that, assumedly in January, the struggle will be real.
This is all a bit of a nightmare, and the worst of that nightmare is only just kicking off. Here’s to hoping that something changes between now and whenever it’s all over.