Mohamed Elneny says Arsenal gamers are fearful of stepping out of line after Mikel Arteta’s choice to bin off Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang final season.
- Aubameyang was stripped of Arsenal captaincy
- Arteta took choice as a consequence of disciplinary points
- Launched in January and joined Barcelona
WHAT HAPPENED? The Egyptian midfielder additionally recommended that egos at the moment are not allowed within the Arsenal dressing room, because the Gunners put together to fulfill Aubameyang for the primary time this weekend following his controversial departure in January.
Aubameyang was stripped of the Arsenal captaincy after which axed by Arteta after a sequence of disciplinary breaches, with the striker becoming a member of Barcelona after being launched by the north London membership.
WHAT THEY SAID: He’s now again in England with Chelsea and talking forward of Sunday’s journey to Stamford Bridge, Elneny says the agency method by which Arteta dealt with the state of affairs had others terrified of what may occur ought to they fall foul of the supervisor.
He mentioned: “Everybody checked out themselves as a result of [if] Mikel did that to the captain of the crew, what’s he going to do with one other participant? This confirmed that now we will’t mess around. Everybody was scared! Everyone seems to be scared with their place as a result of this occurred to Aubameyang.
“After all if anybody is just not the captain of the crew, does a small mistake, they’ll have the identical downside, and nobody wants that downside.”
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Arsenal head to Chelsea this weekend sitting high of the Premier League and Elneny believes a giant a part of their success is a new-found dressing room togetherness.
“We don’t permit massive egos,” he mentioned. “That is the dressing room now we have now. Everybody loves one another and everybody works for one another. That is what truly makes our squad actually robust, as a result of we don’t have egos within the crew.”
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WHAT NEXT FOR ELNENY? The 30-year-old will probably be hoping to make his first Premier League look since August when Arsenal journey to Chelsea on Sunday.