At the moment, Arsenal is a football club at a crossroads. Everywhere you look there are signs of division and the possibility for events to go one of two ways.
The contracts of Alexis Sánchez and Mesut Özil are perhaps the biggest cases in point, with neither of the club’s two marquee players – as of yet – willing to sign an extension. Both have just 18 months to run on their current deals and if talks continue to rumble on Arsène Wenger will have a decision to make this summer.
Does he sell Özil and Sánchez for a transfer fee or does he let their contracts run down before allowing them to leave on a free in June 2018? If we look at what history has told us, the former of those seems much more likely. Just look at the sales of Robin van Persie to Manchester United and Samir Nasri to Manchester City.
