Club football is back at last.
Liverpool v Manchester United will be an exciting game and probably a controversial one.
Watford v Arsenal will be a ding-dong battle with lots of goals and mistakes.
But on Thursday King Wenger announces that his best player, Alexis Sanchez, could be sold in January. And Ozil could go too.
Over most of his 21 years at Arsenal, the great French polymath has seen himself as a developmental manager who sometimes buys readymade stars to get himself out of trouble.
But now he is selling stars to get himself out of trouble.
And the team want those two to go.
Wenger refuses to pay £300,000 a week each to players who don’t really want to play for him any more – and will only consider staying if they get a big pay rise.
LET’S FACE IT : Ozil’s main job was to to hit Sanchez with early passses, so he’s redundant if Sanchez isn’t in the team.
Sanchez used to carry the team, and carry Ozil.
Good players are never available in january, so this situation is ridiculous.
Searched ANR for an Ozil piece from 2014, failed to find it.
But discovered a post that was valid at the time and even more interestng in retrospect.