Who wears it, becomes the focus. With a world club like Arsenal anyway. However, the Gunners seems to be the captain of binding to also to be strong in the criticism: Well two weeks have passed, look for granite Xhakas emotional outburst against Crystal Palace (2:2), as he the spectator at the time of its replacement, animated, louder, his Jersey pulled off in the cabin disappeared.

A few days later, coach Unai Emery stripped him of the Captainamt and made instead, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the new game leader. The justification for the Spaniard: He had a lot of experience, was in the last season, the best scorer of the Premier League, emery’s main Argument: “He is respected in the cabin.”

the origin of the whole debate: Granit Xhaka is augebuht from the Arsenal crowd. (Video: Twitter)

The break with Dortmund

In 79 Games, the Gabon international has scored 50 goals for Arsenal. Be a sporting value for the ailing big club is evident. Nevertheless, Aubameyang is a controversial personality. His move from Borussia Dortmund, he ertrotzte in January 2018, in which he appeared at the BVB Training. Since then, the fronts between the two parties hardened: managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke accused the striker in an Interview with the “süddeutsche Zeitung”, indirectly, money greed, Aubameyang countered via social media and accused Watzke, to have his word broken, to sell mate Ousmane Démbélé never.

the connection to The Fan TV

In London, was exposed to the 30-Year – old previously practically never critical voices its strong average of goals is thanks. But now, with the extra attention and responsibility, what brings the captain connective, are louder, the voices, the questions whether Emery has made the Right to the successor of Granit Xhaka: David Ornstein in “The Athletic” writes, under the edge of the box maintains a friendly relationship with the operators of the YouTube channel “AFTV” the unofficial fans of Arsenal, which also Xhaka regularly harshly criticized.

thus, according to Ornstein, he could escape the critical voices. Aubameyangs connection to the Fan-TV talks not only the fact that he in the social media “Likes” under the Posts sets, among other things, gave Aubameyang a Post, a heart, of the sale of the Xhakas in January calls, but also by the fact that he, the operator in the Box at the Emirates stadium invites for friends and family is provided. “AFTV” published on Monday a 20-minute response video on Ornsteins article and everything is explained for bullshit, something that would have journalists in the national team break-fetched.

outgoing contract

And Aubameyang posted after landing in Gabon, where he will play on Thursday in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the democratic Republic of the Congo, a picture on Instagram and wrote: “I’ll talk to whomever I want, whenever I want. If someone is not happy, you know what that means.” It’s an Emoji of the outstretched middle finger follows.

Pretty clear: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on Instagram. (Image: Instagram)

Actually, Unai Emery wanted to bring with to the appointment Aubameyangs to the Captain’s rest in the environment. This is not managed and is likely to be difficult in future: The contract of the striker expires in the summer of 2021. He is likely to wait to see how the sporting and private Situation to the North of London developed. It missed Arsenal for the umpteenth Time, to qualify for the Champions League, he could be looking for a new challenge.

Xhakas, Flirt with Milan

Xhaka has meanwhile played since the incident against Crystal Palace. In the “SonntagsBlick” he said last openly about his feelings of the last few weeks, as if the constant hostility of the media and Fans frustration and pain built up would be that he didn’t want to hold back any longer, because the limit of the Tolerable had previously been in social media long been exceeded.

The Basel insured to give everything for Arsenal, his Trainer said at the same time but doubt that the 27-would play again for the Gunners. A future Xhakas in London seems unlikely – despite having a contract until 2023. This is the Prince with about eleven million francs, the annual salary of uniformly doped, and it is likely to be a catch for the Englishman not easy to find for the midfielder, for which they paid in 2016, more than 50 million to Borussia Mönchengladbach, a buyer, without having a big financial loss suffered.

Is not fully behind Xhaka: the coach Unai Emery. (Video: Arsenal via Youtube)

In England there are rumours that Newcastle United on a leihweisen Acquisition in the Winter, be interested – subject to the Proviso that the Arsenal is responsible for the lion’s share of the Xhakas salary. In the summer it could pull Xhaka then to Milan to AC Milan. Their CEO Ivan Gazidis worked between 2009 and 2018 for Arsenal before he moved to Milan.

The South Africans know they are good from their London days, and played a key role in the fact that Xhaka decided one day for the Gunners. Now seems not unlikely that it will be liberated between the two to come to a reunion and Gazidis Xhaka from London. As the Ticino TV RSI reported, Xhaka added the search of a house in Milan already.

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Created: 12.11.2019, 16:37 PM