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31 Aug, 14 tweets, 5 min read
I made a thread explaining how AMN messed it up and is being punished by the club. From my end, he's probably not going to play a few games until the club feels he has learnt his lesson.

Fans meanwhile are outside here crying about him, as if he would get us points on his own.
What AMN did was sacrilegious. He is a very self-confident young man but he was born and bred here. He refused to commit to the club's new project where he was needed in front of everyone, including the other Hale End boys! He wanted to strong-arm the club! He went off to West
Brom to play in midfield under Sam Allardyce. Sam Allardyce CALLED HIM OUT IN PUBLIC to listen to his manager and commit to the club.

When he came back to Arsenal, the club's executives had become determined to make an example out of him. As Arteta said when he was hired, if you
won't fully commit to what we are trying to do here, then you cannot be a part of the group. It is not negotiable.

He came back after being called out by Big Sam and now simply wants to play like that?

Nah, man, there's something called discipline. If I were Arteta, he would
never play for us again. Especially if I can get another option in the transfer market.

He is one of the snakes Freddie Ljunberg warned the club about before he left. Too selfish, too uncaring about the club that made. Unprofessional and undisciplined. Always whining.
People think that this is Football Manager. No, this is real life! Arteta and the club are trying to build a new, proper and winning culture here.

We have always known that the players collected under Wenger were an unprofessional lot. Even the club captain has been disciplined.
AMN needed to personally take responsibility for his own actions and fix the situation. Accept that he deserves some sort of disciplinary response from the club. Hunker down. Train hard. Win the manager back. Improve your attitude. Listen to what Big Sam advised you.

Instead:
Clearly, AMN and his advisers are antagonizing the club. He is too proud to take his punishment. Too swallow it. Instead he is leaking a one-sided narrative to his paid vulture reporter. He is trying to stir up fans in what is already a bad atmosphere for the entire club.
I said in that thread that AMN's punishment was probably for a period of time before he is back out and playing.

But with his actions and his leaks, it is clear, more than ever to the club that he is no longer fit to be a part of the new team.

Here's the club's response:
AMN is done at Arsenal. His personality, his own hubris has led to his downfall. On his way out, he is rattling the fanbase.

Fans don't know they are being manipulated by the snakes. Wenger's children were spoilt and uncommitted to the club. They disappointed Wenger himself.
Now that it is clear that the club are not going to be strong-armed by his infantile tactics and have decided to move forward, Ainsley Maitland-Niles is now trying to act professional.
You can never get a rebuild without a real club culture.

Arsene Wenger gave the players a lot of freedom and each one of them hurt the club back. Ramsey leaving for free. Ozil doing what he did. AMN. Alexis Sanchez.

WE ARE FED UP!

Freddie complained all the time about them.
Remember when Sanchez was publicly defying the club and Elneny felt like calling him out in public?

That's a festering club culture right there. This is part of why we never do well. Arteta knows all these things. He was our former player and a model leader! That's why he was
talking about discipline, culture and all that when he came in. That's basically part of the problem here.

Conte would hate our squad!

Here is the thread in which I explained the AMN story, got the Cedric date wrong but everything fine

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Today, I will answer this.

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You think that is the kind of atmosphere to instill a gung-ho approach? Especially with a coach who wants control?
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