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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that increased pressure from the club's supporters nearly forced him to drop star player Aaron Ramsey. The Welsh international has impressed this season and helped the Gunners to top of the Premier League table.
However, not everything was all peachy for the midfielder, who struggled to adapt to life at Arsenal and also initially struggled to impress the club's faithful for the first few seasons and after recovering from a serious injury.
"Let’s not forget that one year ago people were saying to me, 'it’s difficult to play him at the Emirates'," Wenger said. "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."
Written by James Turnbull
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