Laurent Koscielny

[Big Poppa]

Embarrassing. One thing after another. Club is an utter shambles from top to bottom.

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.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Embarrassing. One thing after another. Club is an utter shambles from top to bottom.

This is good. We've all suspected the squad has been infested with rats who play for themselves instead of the club. Need to weed them out.

 

[vantoure]

I mean, I can't think of a single footballer who cares about transfer fees on their head. Could be he just wants the path of least resistance for himself, which is him being a free agent.

It sounds to me though like it's more than that. As if we are unwilling to negotiate a transfer unless we can bring in a guaranteed replacement.

Which is more than understandable from our perspective and in line with recent rhetoric about how we deal with player sales.

The public statement is an interesting move too. Very un-Arsenal like, but again, probably an attempt to shift away from a management approach that was perceived to be overly submissive.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help arsenal.

We're likely to be desperate to sell him now, so we'd be selling for lower than we normally would like.

For replacement, selling clubs will know we're desperate to fill the gap, so we'd be paying more.

Lose-lose in my view.

There's probably more to this than we've seen so far, as I imagine all of these options would have been weighed internally and with Koscielny himself before things came to a head.

 

[butcher22]

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.

lol our captain is trying to force a move to Bordeaux hahahahhahaha we are finished

 

[carlito'sway]

Shocker, french player goes on strike to force a move

On a serious note he has given us good service and put up with a unreal amount of garbage in his time here, played through pain so many times and his body is a wreck for that. Give him his move he wants and quick, he is probably the only player in that squad who deserves to be released and allowed to move on.

I have said the same as well. The guy didn't put a foot wrong the last 10 years and served the club admirably. Let him go.
Beyond that, what's the point of releasing this statement? That could not be handled internally? That is shambolic. This club is run like a clown show....SMH.
PS. May be unpopular opinion here, but that statement would have never have happened under Wenger.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Sell him and use the extra money to chuck St Etienne’s way so we can have Saliba now.

We need him now damn it.

 

[thierrytheking14]

He doesn't want to be here? Let him go.

Thanks for the service you gave the club. Thanks for some gaffes along the way that cost us big time.

I want people at my club that want to play for us. Cheerio Kos. Don't let the door hit you on the way out lad

 

[FluffyDoozi]

I have said the same as well. The guy didn't put a foot wrong the last 10 years and served the club admirably. Let him go.
Beyond that, what's the point of releasing this statement? That could not be handled internally? That is shambolic. This club is run like a clown show....SMH.

Fully on board with what the club has done. Pretty embarrassing and petulant stuff from someone who I had respect for. Even if you want to move, going on tour doesn't mean your agents can't negotiate a deal for you. Lots of players do so.

Why are you ending your time here like this after all those years of service? Why would you think the club owes you a year off your contract with no transfer fee? How childish can you be FFS?

 

[albakos]

This is very disturbing news. What the ****, now the captain holding the club to ransom ?
Not going to jump into conclusions, but the indications tell of Emery failing to have control of the club again.

 

[Mark Tobias]

Actually shocked by this. Last person in the squad I expected it from!

 

[Mark Tobias]

. The guy didn't put a foot wrong the last 10 years and served the club admirably. .

Great player but claiming perfection is a bit of a stretch, surely?
Lost us a final in his first couple years here.

 

[Ricardinho]

He doesn't want to be here? Let him go.

Thanks for the service you gave the club. Thanks for some gaffes along the way that cost us big time.

I want people at my club that want to play for us. Cheerio Kos. Don't let the door hit you on the way out lad

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?

 

[Alkane]

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

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Emery losing the dressing room in the second season. Everyone knew this would happening.

 

[carlito'sway]

Great player but claiming perfection is a bit of a stretch, surely?
Lost us a final in his first couple years here.

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.

 

[Alkane]

Don’t know how to embed social media images on here but check Koscielnys most recent social media post comments, the revolt is starting

 

[Furious]

Send this bum to St. Etienne and take Saliba this season?

Everyone's happy.

 

[Aevi]

 

[carlito'sway]

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

 

[krengon]

Only person this reflects badly on is Koscielny..