And do you not think it is our club's fault partially for selling him to a rival? If we had sold him elsewhere, we wouldn't see these pictures of him with the Premier League title and that goofy grin everywehre!
He was still contracted to Arsenal and technically speaking, we could have sold him to anyone we wanted to or told him to honour his contract. We sold him to City because we got a healthy transfer fee - that is fair enough, but why sell to a club in the same league as we'd be weakening our own team and strengthening a rival?
We didn't even need the money, anyway. Arsenal have enough money as it is.
What I suggested above about selling elsewhere is what we did with Viera - he wanted to move to Real Madrid, but Wenger stayed firm and told him to stay put. Then we sold him to Juventus, but he sulked because he didn't leave when he wanted to nor did he move to the club he admired.
That's a reason why he's a representative for Manchester City and not Arsenal. He still holds a grudge against Wenger because he was the reason why the move from Arsenal to Madrid did not unfold.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...Madrid-Exclusive-interview-article401449.html
But anyway, my point is that if Wenger wasn't afraid to tell players to 'know their place' about 7/8 years ago, then I don't see why he's had this gradual change of attitude. Perhaps it is our Chief Executive Gazidis that has influenced him, but I'm pretty sure Wenger is allowed to have a say in the club's imperative decisions.