'Ramsey can decide whether he stays or goes'

Speaking to 'Sky Sports', journalist Dominic Fifield believes that Ramsey alone has the final say over whether or not he will stay in London.

When asked if Ramsey holds the power, he told The Sunday Supplement: "Yes he is, because if he resists being sold in January then he'll command a higher wage at his next club. That's the reality of it.

"I guess he might find his opportunities at Arsenal to play in the second half of the season, if he's still there, more limited than he would like, but he's still a player whose pedigree and quality is very obvious.

"He is a consistent performer in a team where people like Mesut Ozil aren't consistent, so whoever brings him in knows what they are getting from him.

"Like any player that's run down his contract, that does put him in a position of power to negotiate what happens next.

"Arsenal's wage bill is pushed to its absolute max because they've signed up Mesut Ozil, they've signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Alexandre Lacazette was a record signing and that was all before the Unai Emery era so he has no wiggle room.

"If you are going to pay someone around £200,000 a week, you've got to be sure he's your number two or three player. My guess is Emery probably doesn't think that.

He's a very good player who you'd want in your squad but they seem to have pre-empted the situation because they don't want to get into the Sanchez or Ozil 'will they or won't they sign' disaster of last January and said 'actually we can't go to that level'."