Speaking on talkSPORT’s YouTube channel, Simon Jordan has been discussing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s situation at Arsenal and the way he departed the club.
Aubameyang and Arteta seemingly had a falling out at Arsenal over disciplinary issues, and these problems ultimately cost the Gabonese forward his career in north London.
Indeed, the striker has now been shipped out to Barcelona, and Jordan has quite a left-field theory.
The former Crystal Palace owner says he hopes that his idea isn’t true, but he suggested that this could be a deliberate ploy from Arteta to assert his authority at Arsenal.
Jordan states that Pep Guardiola did similar with Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Barcelona, and with Arteta being a disciple of Guardiola, he thinks this may be an attempt to emulate that power play.
What’s Jordan said?
The pundit shared his theory on this situation.
“I’d like to think that this wasn’t Arteta taking out the biggest name in the dressing room to show that he means business,” Jordan said.
“Arteta is cut from a certain cloth, he follows the direction of his messiah Pep Guardiola, remember Guardiola challenged Zlatan Ibrahimovic and he had issues between personalities there. This is not something that Arteta hasn’t seen or been aware of in the way that Guardiola manages. I think this is a poor outcome, nobody has won out of this.”
A possibility
As Jordan says, you would like to imagine that this wasn’t the case, but perhaps it’s something that played on Arteta’s mind.
Arteta will have learnt a lot from Guardiola, including man-management, and those lessons will have played a part in how he handled this situation.
We can’t imagine that Arteta will have ostracised Aubameyang for no reason, but perhaps he’s taken these extreme measures in order to assert himself as the boss at Arsenal in the same way Guardiola did at Barcelona.
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