Daily Mirror

JUST DEAL WITH IT, RAM

- BY JOHN CROSS

UNAI EMERY has ordered Aaron Ramsey to forget about his contract stand-off and focus on getting back in the team.

Emery (left with Ramsey) confirmed Mirror Sport’s story that the player had been in to see him last week after becoming concerned over whether he is in the new manager’s plans. The Wales star was substitute­d early against Manchester City then dropped against Chelsea last Saturday.

It casts doubt over whether Ramsey – in the final year of his current deal at Arsenal – has a future under Emery. The Gunners boss said: “I spoke with him last week. I said, ‘I want you focused only on training and only on the match, you show us the capacity to help the team’.

“The contract is another thing for his agent and the club, but we want – and I need – his focus only on training, on the match and his performanc­e each day.

“I want the player to be focused only on Saturday. So that our players give our supporters quality and energy.”

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