I honestly believe it is a coincidence that both incidents happened at same time. These things happen, it is hard for me to believe that Arsenal would frame a player just because he refused to extend his contract with the club. There is no history of the club having done something like this in the past, I don’t think they will start now.
Nah, I'm not actually suggesting that his was framed by Arsenal or Arsenal raised the matter again because he refused to renew after his demands were not met. I think as an Arsenal player that he was, Arsenal didn't want anything that will distract him playing like all these court cases and the rest, so they simply suppressed the case so it doesn't come out in the open like it would have been but now that his no longer an Arsenal player, the club has removed it's hands from the case that's why it out now again.
I highly doubt a football club could have such power. The ability to sweep this under the rug for so long, just so he would not lose value or something or whatever, isn't that possible for a football team. How do we know? Because there has been other teams and players that had bad stuff and all of that was on the news, so that is an important point, we have already seen them fail to do it before, so they are not that powerful.
Plus, why would anyone listen to them? Like why would any newspaper not write about it? That is a huge click material and would be able to actually get it. The only reason is because the news became public now, with the allegations turning into criminal suit, and that is why we are seeing it today, nothing more.