Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed that he was advised to drop Aaron Ramsey from home games due to the serious pressure he was under from the Emirates Stadium faithful.
The Welshman has to be considered the most-improved footballer in world football as he has gone from a club villain to a club hero in the matter of months.
At the beginning of last season, Ramsey was booed and jeered every time he was included in Wenger’s starting line-up, so much so that Wenger was told to keep him out of home games due to the pressure put on him by the crowd.
However, now, Ramsey is probably the first name on The Gunners’ team-sheet as he has won Player of the Month four rows in succession for the club.
In a recent interview, Wenger has actually revealed how he was told to drop Ramsey from home games due to the impatience of the home fans.
“Let’s not forget that one year ago people were saying to me, ‘it’s difficult to play him at the Emirates’,” said Wenger.
“You could see there was an impatience with him at the Emirates. You always are, as a manager, in a period where you think: ‘Do I push him through and he can go more down, or do I give him a breather to regenerate, to get him a fresh start?’
“That’s always difficult for us to assess because it is linked to their mental state. When their own confidence is down, of course they are in trouble. But he is a confident boy.
“You have to give him credit for that transformation because he could deal with that. He could come back, never give up, convince everybody that he has the needed quality.”
