Arsenal: Actual “price” for Aaron Ramsey departure moot

Arsenal are being told they will have to spend £40m to compensate for Aaron Ramsey’s pending departure, but that’s the least of the worries.

Arsenal‘s resounding win over Chelsea is till flowing through our collective minds, and while it is lovely to bask in that glory, there are still underlying issues that are going to cause problems going forward with the club, and none are more obvious that Aaron Ramsey’s pending departure.

It’s been made clear that there is no going back now. Unai Emery’s apparent, shared excitement to work with Ramsey at the start of the season has amounted to him leaving the club after a contract offer was ripped away for no apparent reason.

Nowadays, it is being said that in order to replace, it will cost the Gunners £40m. Of course, that is just a random figure thrown out there by talking heads, but the point is that in a world where this club is broke, it’s going to be hard to find the money to replace such a crucial figure.

But money is the least of the worries, honestly. This whole thing is a fiasco and it doesn’t matter to me how the club approaches it, they aren’t going to make it better. You could sign James Rodriguez and it wouldn’t fix it. That would open up a whole new wage situation that we aren’t ready to deal with.

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What this comes down to is a complete collapse in the values of the club. Ramsey is a Gunner, he always has been and he always could have been. He had a contract offer taken away from him.

Even with his contract set to expire at the end of the year, he has still monumentally overshadowed Mesut Ozil, who is making three times the wages that Ramsey is making and playing at about a tenth of the Welshman’s effectiveness.

Ramsey was let down by the club, yet he continues to uphold his end of the bargain. Meanwhile, Ozil has let the club down, while the club continues to uphold its end of the bargain.

That is what is important about the pending Ramsey departure. Not the price that it will cost to replace him.

And oh, by the way, £40m? What midfielder are you going to buy for £40m that can replace Aaron Ramsey and all that he does? Because this midfielder is not known to me.