Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has come out to say that the club must learn from the Mesut Ozil and Sokratis Papastathopoulos situations. He recently revealed that Arsenal must ensure it never finds itself having to offload high-earning again.
According to him, the club has to manage players’ contract better in the future because the recent saga was not good for both players and the club.
He added that communication is always key when it comes to agreement in football contracts, so Arsenal must learn that going forward.
His words, “You don’t want to get into this position again, that’s for sure,”
“Not for the player, not for the club.
“But it’s happening more and more at every club and this situation you can see in other clubs things happening like that.
“I think you have to have that communication open, obviously to prevent it as much as possible and if they happen, just make a decision and don’t try to delay a situation that is not working for much longer.
“Sometimes it’s difficult because the contracts are really close and you have to respect them while you sign them and some days it’s difficult to see how things are going to evolve in six months’ time.”
“So sometimes it’s impossible to see what’s going to happen in three years’ time. We tried to resolve those situations early in the summer, to try and avoid what we had but sometimes it’s not possible as well.”
“Obviously a lot of things happened institutionally at the club and with some of the big decision makers as well,”
“We are trying to create a really strong team with different qualities that hopefully is going to give us more sustainability and success in our decisions.”
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