Rafa Benitez claims Mikel Arteta did all the pieces he might to assist Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang earlier than the striker left Arsenal.
Earlier this month a video emerged of Aubameyang criticising Arteta’s administration at Arsenal inwhichheclaimed the Spaniard didn't know the way to deal with ‘huge gamers’.
Throughout their closing few months collectively at Arsenal, Arteta stripped Aubameyang of the captaincy following a number of disciplinary breaches.
Arsenal subsequently agreed to terminate Aubameyang’s contract, which paved the way in which for the striker’s transfer to Barcelona within the closing levels of the January switch window.
However Benitez insists Arteta tried to ‘assist’ Aubameyang earlier than finally deciding that the 33-year-old had no future on the membership.
Talking about Arteta’s fall-out with Aubameyang, Benitez advised Premier League Productions: ‘I'll let you know one thing as a result of I do know a little bit bit from the within.
‘He was attempting to assist the participant as a lot as he might and after he couldn’t and that’s it. And he has to decide.’
Benitez additionally praised Arteta for enhancing Arsenal’s enjoying fashion and believes the World Cup break might enhance the Gunners’ possibilities of competing for the Premier League title.
‘I feel they’re doing nicely, analysing the sport, not simply watching the sport, analysing the video games, they're doing a whole lot of issues proper,’ Benitez stated after Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday.
‘They press excessive, they've the possession, they transfer the ball in a short time, they've gentle gamers, very dynamic up entrance, as quickly as they offer the ball away they press and regain the ball shortly. They've good gamers in one-versus-one conditions, they play wall passes, a whole lot of good issues, the defenders are very excessive.
‘He [Arteta] stated that, ‘we made simpler roads in harmful areas’, when you find yourself doing nicely, when you may have good gamers you possibly can take the chance, [Kevin] De Bruyne was speaking about that, he can take the chance within the final cross. They [Arsenal] can try this as a result of they're so fast after they go to press.
‘They've a lot tempo in assault, they're now mentally prepared. It’s like when Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool had been doing nicely, they go and press shortly and since you are on prime of the opposite group you regain very excessive and then you definitely create extra probabilities.
‘What they're doing now, a whole lot of groups play from the again, and since they're so fast to regain and the opposite group is vast open after which they create extra probabilities and rating extra objectives.
‘It’s good to offer time to the proper coach, in England it’s very simple to speak about, ‘they should spend cash, it’s the one method’. And it’s not the way in which.
‘With the economical disaster all over the world, you must enhance your gamers, you must coach your gamers correctly, you must regulate the academy and produce gamers from the academy, and if you should purchase gamers purchase top-class gamers, however not top-class gamers in [just] skill, [but also in] mentality.
‘Then if the supervisor is correct, if the concepts are proper, you must give him confidence, that's actually necessary to do one thing. He [Arteta] was below stress a few instances, and nonetheless they had been spending some huge cash, don’t get me incorrect, however they had been supporting him and he was doing nicely. And on the finish of the day, the worth of the group, the gamers, the membership, is a lot better now.’
Talking on Arsenal’s title probabilities, Benitez added: ‘They've a younger group, with the World Cup now and the break, they may recuperate and have contemporary legs for the second a part of the season.
‘If they've confidence, in the event that they win two or three video games, they are going to be there, as a result of they may have extra perception and the vitality to do it.’
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