Laurent Koscielny

[Mark Tobias]

Good servant to the club but he’s under contract, if you didn’t want to stay till you’re 34 don’t sign a contract for so many number of years.

Hope we keep him for the year and let him rot

You'd rather we lost him on a free?

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Only person this reflects badly on is Koscielny..

And Raul, Edu, Emery and the Vinai.

 

[Mark Tobias]

I am talking attitude and commitment wise, evidently not performance's.
Having said that for Kos to get to that extreme, something must have happened between him and the current managing team. That is very unlike him. Was he promised something that was not delivered? I have a feeling there is more to this story.

Okay, thanks for clarifying. I also think so. His love for this club was visible throughout the years. Something more to this.
Emery making several enemies.

 

[Alkane]

You'd rather we lost him on a free?

If we grant his wish we lose him for free anyway. Point is we need to set a precedent and show refusing to turn up will not get him his wish of a terminated contract.

 

[Vinci]

Should only release him on a free if Mkhi and Özil do the same.

 

[Tourbillion]

You're being melodramatic. It's a personal choice of one player who's approaching the end of his career.

If anything it's the club showing some much needed teeth.

In Bastard Raul we trust.

 

[14Henry]

Anyone blaming Emery needs a good look at themselves.

Koscielny has been an Arsenal player a long time. He is a character of the club. Captain. If he was promised an opportunity to leave then he needs the club's to bid for him.

If he has been told he won't be a guaranteed starter next year at 33 then play your balls of it training and preseason and show your the best.

Either way Koscielny is an Arsenal player. Not an Emery player. Not a Raul player. He plays for the fans and it's them who pay his wages. Respect the badge and he can certainly have his say a different way.

Look at how Gary Cahill conducted himself this year. Club captain to dropped and played basically 0 minutes of football all year. Not even in cups. Not a word until basically the last game or two of the season when Chelsea had all but secured champions league and were in the final of the cup.

 

[YeahBee]

Damn!
Did not see this coming

 

[Aevi]

Exactly....There is something strange about this saga.

Having similar thoughts. Feels too out of the blue, like some info is missing.

Still don't like the refusal to join the tour though. He's captain, you don't act like that if you're captain.

 

[A_G]

"Hasn't put a foot wrong in 10 years" :rofl:

 

[carlito'sway]

If we grant his wish we lose him for free anyway. Point is we need to set a precedent and show refusing to turn up will not get him his wish of a terminated contract.

So we are going to pay him over 3 M this year and have sitting at Colney? Would be very smart from a club that apparently is trying to cut costs.
At the end of the day, he will leave this summer, that is a simple fact.

 

[pacstud]

The board dbs really want it both ways. ****ing hens.

 

[A_G]

PS. May be unpopular opinion here, but that statement would have never have happened under Wenger.

How is that any different from the statement they put out when RVP announced he wanted to leave?

 

[carlito'sway]

"Hasn't put a foot wrong in 10 years" :rofl:

You are as thick in real life?

 

[thierrytheking14]

Credit where credit is due - his goal gave us the platform to go on and win our first trophy in 9 years. Didn't he score the goal one year that got us the win to get top 4 also?

Hence why I said thanks for the service. Hes had some great games for us, I'm not trying to take that away from him.

But let's be frank, he's made a fair few costly errors that have cost us. Most notably Birmingham in Carling Cup.

Get a few million for him, let him go if he doesn't want to be here, that's all I'm saying.

 

[carlito'sway]

How is that any different from the statement they put out when RVP announced he wanted to leave?

Are you for real? You really don't know the facts, don't you? RVP came out first with a public statement and the club had to respond to it. AFC did not come out publicly until then. They did everything to handle this situation internally.

 

[North5]

Wow... What a shambles.

disgraceful stuff really. Sums up the current state of the club.

 

[Gervais]

Yeah, he's gotta go ASAP.

 

[NieThePiet]

He was a fantastic defender for most of the time, we don't have to talk bad about his performances now, just because he decided for this sh't move.

The statement from Arsenal was completely right too.

Think we will wait very long to get an offer or we will cancel the contract to save the wage at least. Surely he will not play another game for us.

 

[A_G]

You are as thick in real life?

It was a ridiculous statement from you, he's cost the team in several big games including semi-finals and finals.

Are you for real? RVP came out first with a statement and the club had to respond to it. AFC did not come out publicly until then. They did everything to handle this situation internally.

You can't go on tour without your club captain and not give a reason. It would've been leaked by journalists at some point and made the club look worse.