Keown blasts Gunners

ALEXIS Sanchez and Mesut Ozil have l et Arsenal down this season and should be sold if they are not ready to fight for the team, according to the club’s former defender Martin Keown.

Sanchez and Ozil scored 41 goals between them for the Gunners but it was not enough to secure Champions League qualification as Wenger’s men finished fifth.

The uncertainty regarding their futures has intensified due to problems on and off the pitch.

Ozil sat out five consecutive starting line-ups f ollowing Arsenal’s first 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich while Sanchez was dropped during the same period, after storming out of a training session.

“It became about Ozil and Sanchez for too long in the season. I think their behaviour let Arsenal down in that period,” said Keown, speaking ahead of the FA Cup Final.

“Ozil wasn’t available for large periods. Was he injured, wasn’t he? Was it sickness, was it injury? He didn’t seem to be around when they needed him most.

“Sanchez then had an incident at the club. It felt like he threw his toys out of the cot.”