Arsenal legend Paul Merson has slammed his former side for the way the club is handing Aaron Ramsey’s contract extension.
Ramsey could walk away for free in the summer with his current deal set to expire at the end of the current season. The Gunners were in the same situation with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez and now it appears they will lose another star for absolutely nothing.#
Rambo was close to agreeing to a new deal but after months of negotiations, the club withdrew their offer from the table in an amazing twist. Merson has slammed the club for letting his deal run right down.
“It seems to me that the manager has said, ‘I can get better somewhere else’. The contract was on the table and Arsenal withdrew it, and it sounds like to me the manager has said, ‘hold on a minute, I’m not giving him that kind of money, I can get a better player than that’.
“But giving a player £200,000-a-week is going to be a lot less than buying a £40million player and giving him £130,000-a-week,” he said.
“It’s typical Arsenal, isn’t it. How can they let the contract of a quality player like that run down? They’ve done it too many times now. When I was there, when there was 18 months or two years left on your contract you were called in for another one. My contract never, ever, went to less than 18 months at Arsenal,” added Merson.
On October 12th, Ramsey announced his plans to stay at Arsenal for rest of season after collapsing of contract talks.