Arsenal: Aaron Ramsey taking potshots at club’s determination

Aaron Ramsey is leaving Arsenal and that’s tragic. But it’s even more tragic when he keeps taking potshots at the club’s bizarre determination to ditch him.

Arsenal‘s draw against Wolverhampton was the complete opposite as their draw against Liverpool. While one had fight and determination, the other had a complete flatness and befuddlement.

Nothing the Gunners did against Wolverhampton came off. But then again, they didn’t try much. And to Wolves credit, they defended masterfully, blocking every shot that dared to give the Emirates any ounce of hope.

It was going to come down to the substitutions, and without Welbeck, and with all the primary options spent, that left it to Mkhitaryan and Aaron Ramsey, neither of whom are on the top of the food chain at the Emirates, what with Ramsey leaving and Mkhitaryan well… sucking.

But Ramsey was a difference maker. It didn’t take long for him to start trying things, as he so often does. Nothing came off early on, but he wasn’t content dinking the ball around in a semi-circle, waiting to see if anything would pop up and bite him in the nose.

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He had a fantastic opportunity denied by Patricio when he spun and fired off the shot that would have leveled the game, had the opposing keeper not made a tremendous save.

Mere moments later, he was credited with the assist that led to the lucky goal that spared the Gunners a seriously troubling fate.

It’s not like Ramsey changed the game. It’s not like he was unstoppable, or single-handedly doing what the team had failed to do up until that luckiest of goals. But he did what we are so used to him doing – he tried things. He wasn’t content. We haven’t had this problem since Wenger days, where so many players looked so flat, but in those days it was much of the same. It was all about giving the ball to Ramsey and seeing if he could work his magic.

Each time he does something that only he could do, I wonder if the club’s misplaced determination to ditch the Welshman isn’t a bit overdone. I still don’t understand it when I consider how much he is still doing for the team.

At least we know his head and heart are still with the club, even if he is being dealt an unfair hand at such a crucial point of his career.