The Gunners will see the high-ranking duo leave the club this month after not appearing at all this season.
Mikel Arteta has said he wants Arsenal to learn their lesson from the recent dismissals of duo Mesut Ozil and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Ozil, who has been the Emirates’ highest-earning player with his £ 350,000 ($ 479,000) weekly contract, is expected to join Fenerbahce after reaching a break in talks to terminate his contract six months early.
Earlier in the week, the club confirmed that Sokratis’ contract had been terminated by mutual consent, with the defender also leaving north London six months before his contract expired.
Having been with the pair on the club’s books this season, despite both being left out of the club’s Europa League and Premier League teams, Arteta is hoping the Gunners can secure positions. better manage the contract of their players in the future.
“You don’t want to get into this situation again, that’s for sure,” he said. “Not for the player, not for the club.
“But it’s happening more and more at every club and in this situation you can see in other clubs things happening like that.
“I think you need to be open, transparent in that communication to prevent it as much as possible and if they happen, just make a decision and don’t try to delay a situation that doesn’t working much longer.
“Sometimes it’s difficult because the contracts are very close and you have to respect them as you sign them and some days it’s hard to see how things are going to go. six months.
“So sometimes it’s impossible to see what happens in three years. We tried to resolve these situations in the early summer, to try and avoid what we had but sometimes that is also not possible. “
Arteta hopes that Richard Garlick, who was recently appointed as Arsenal ‘s director of football operations, will help prevent more situations like those of Ozil and Sokratis in the future.
“Of course a lot has happened institutionally at the club and with some of the big decision makers as well,” said Arteta.
“We are trying to create a strong team with different attributes that we hope will give us more stability and success in our decisions. ”