Mikel Arteta backs Arsenal's management group amid Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang drama

Mikel Arteta backs Arsenal's management group amid Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang drama

Mikel Arteta insists he has self belief in Arsenal's management institution because the fallout from Pierre-Emerick Auabmeyang's exclusion from the squad maintains.

The Gabon worldwide has been stripped of the club captaincy after breaching disciplinary policies and has been banished from first team training.

He neglected the victory over West Ham and could now not be available for selection while Arsenal face Leeds on Saturday night time, with Alexandre Lacazette - himself out of contract inside the summer - taking the armband for the last three matches.

Arteta instructed Sky Sports: "We have other captains and there may be a list of captains for a reason due to the fact a participant perhaps starts now not to play, a player receives injured, after which the opposite players have to take that obligation.

"In order to try this, you don't want that to show up in a single day.

"That's why you have a leadership organization because they may be constantly making decisions, they're continuously communicating with myself, the education body of workers and the membership in many other factors, and that they need to be was once taking that obligation and leadership."

While Arteta did concede that people could make mistakes, he reiterated how the membership have proven Aubameyang leniency inside the past.

He added: "Absolutely. I assume we all make mistakes. I continually consider that everybody has the proper purpose - even when you have made a mistake.

"You ought to apprehend that probably what for you is a mistake, for someone else is only a everyday element due to the fact they arrive from a exceptional history, or culture, or schooling, and I am absolutely open to that - and I think we've got shown that on many occasions."

Aubameyang isn't expected to play any part within the Gunners' festive furniture and will rather work on maintaining himself fit for the Africa Cup of Nations, which begins in January.

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