Arsenal legend, Ian Wright has advised manager, Mikel Arteta to end his rift with his recently ousted captain, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Speaking after the Gunners beat West Ham in Wednesday night’s London derby to climb fourth on the Premier League table, Wright expressed his disappointment with the Spaniard for his waving talks concerning the Gabonese during his pre-match press conference.
WuzupNigeria had reported that the former Borussia Dortmund star was axed as the club’s captain following a disciplinary breach last week and was left out of the squad for Saturday’s match against Southampton and last night’s 2-0 West Ham victory.
After the derby, Wright warned that the matter could grow to become a distraction if he continues to avoid it, with the Gunners travelling to Leeds this weekend.
“He’s just not entertaining anything to do with Aubameyang and I totally understand when he says he just wants to concentrate on what happened today and he doesn’t want to talk about it,’ Wright told Premier League Productions.
“But I don’t think you can continue to avoid it, especially in the way that it has come about. At some stage you’re going to have to quash it or talk about it.
“He’s got the capability of killing it and saying, “Yeah, he’s in the plans and he’s an Arsenal player”, and he didn’t do it.
“I was hoping for something like that because what you want now is everything’s done, Arsenal have won, they’ve played brilliantly, the boss has been vindicated for his decisions so just quash it so they can move on.
“It’s going to be talked about again, they will mention it again for the next game. And then if he’s not in the next game… so he can kill it, that’s all I’m saying. Kill it.”
