Today’s tittle-tattle is out of control
Don’t listen to that voice in the back of your head, Arsène. You know, the one that’s saying that you could probably do without Mesut Özil because Jeff Reine-Adélaïde is showing rich promise and 2017 could be the year when Yaya Sanogo really explodes on to the scene. Sanogo isn’t going to explode on to the scene. He might crackle and froth a bit, like a volcano at a school science fair, but then he’ll fizzle out and you’ll end up thinking that maybe you should have given Özil that massive contract that’s making you feel queasy at the moment.
Özil is reportedly asking for £348,000 a week – don’t blame him, blame market forces and Brexit – and that’s not how Arsenal traditionally roll. Who does he think they are, Shanghai Shenhua? It does seem an obscene amount to the Mill, whose wage packet arrives in the form of a box of Refreshers and a multipack of Um Bongo each month, which goes some way to explaining its somewhat sickly look. But this is modern football and Arsenal face losing Özil, their assist genius, if they don’t pay up.
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