Sokratis gives his opinion on Aubameyang’s Arsenal exit

Sokratis Papastathopoulos has slammed Arsenal for how they handled the exit of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and says they could have addressed differently it.

The striker left the Emirates for Barcelona in the last transfer window after Mikel Arteta had frozen him out of his team.

He had been struggling all season even though he was the club’s captain and first-choice striker.

It wasn’t his on-field struggles that would eventually lead to his exit, but his undisciplined off-field life became too much for the gaffer and he was banished from the first team.

Auba has rediscovered his goal-scoring touch at Barca and he has been scoring for fun, while Arsenal struggle to find the back of the net.

Sokratis believes there are better ways for players to end their stay at a club, and it is certainly not how it works at the Emirates.

He tells The Sun: ‘Aubameyang is not the only one who left this way from Arsenal, other players also left like that; including myself.

‘I don’t know and personally I don’t think it was the correct choice, the matter could have been resolved differently.’

He adds: ‘[The way I left] Was not the best, I was left out of the team. But it’s a matter I haven’t spoken about yet, I respected the manager’s choice. I spoke with him.’ 

Just Arsenal Opinion

Aubameyang left Arteta with no choice but to treat him harshly after breaking disciplinary rules repeatedly.

The Arsenal manager is not perfect and will probably learn to treat situations differently in his career, but the team needs individuals who will adhere to instructions and not bring negative publicity around it.

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21 Comments

  1. “Aubameyang left Arteta with no choice but to treat him harshly”
    That’s a pretty bold statement without any justification.

  2. Auba was really good when MA arrived, progressively got worse under his “coaching” and miraculously became good again a week after leaving Arsenal.

    Real difficult one to work out…..

    1. Certainly can’t be due to Arteta’s coaching or tactics. Laca has been scoring for fun at Arsenal, and Nketiah has finally become a scorer after 2 years training with Arteta.

      1. This is what bugs me when I was reading fans saying he was lazy and had lost his pace ,his decline started when Arteta took over that is a fact ,obviously he didn’t fit into Artetas way of playing but having watched his goals for Barca you have to wonder how our manager couldn’t get him firing but that can be said with pretty much all our offensive players .

        1. It’s too early to conclude, Barca is dominating their games again, and Auba gets much help from Pedri and Dembélé both are finding him with their precise feet. I’m happy for Auba, but I don’t miss him. He created his own problems and has nobody to blame but himself.

          1. But Didrik with all due respect, you aren’t getting it. You are blaming Auba for what went on. Was it Auba or was it Arteta. The facts are we didn’t come out of it very good but Auba did.

            1. Was it Arteta or Auba being late to training or games?

              goal.com has an interesting article about Auba, written by Charles Watts. His information is more or less similar to what I have been told.

              In addition, did he went to a tattoo during the pandemic, when all members of the club had a strict Covid-19 regime. Doing that he exposed all the players and staff with his egocentric behave.

              Auba was an important player who let us down, and now he’s history and I support the decision to let him go.

              1. You dont get it ot don’t want to get Didrik. Arteta wants easy players to handle but that doesn’t mean you end up with the best team. Management is about handling all sorts of players.

                1. Gouendouzi never got the chance to star under Arteta, he is at Marseille. Auba didn’t star under Arteta and was disposed of as trouble but for Barca he is staring. Those two slightly troublesome players are not at their new clubs under new managers and are flourishing. For me that should start alarm bells ringing because of our situation and they aren’t the only two but probably the higher profile two.

                  1. You have a very short perspective, Auba has got a new chance in Barca, but I doubt his success will last. Auba isn’t an easy guy and made lots of problems in Dortmund as well.

                    Guendouzi had problems with his discipline and got several chances to adjust. His behave against Brighton was unacceptable. Guendouzi is a young player and Arsenal could obviously done more to help him. Arteta isn’t perfect and like most managers he’s doing mistakes.

                    Arsenal has been a mess recently and I believe we had to change our culture to start performing. From my point of view Arteta has got a very complicated job, but he has been sorting out the mess. In general I think he has done a decent job in spite lots of internal and external obstacles. We should not forget state of the club when he arrived in December 2019, with a very hostile and negative atmosphere at the Emirates.

  3. I think we have all done this one to death really

    Spoiler alert…he’s not coming back

  4. ….. He tells The Sun: ‘Aubameyang is not the only one who left this way from Arsenal, other players also left like that; including myself.

    ‘I don’t know and personally I don’t think it was the correct choice, the matter could have been resolved differently.’
    He adds: ‘[The way I left] Was not the best, I was left out of the team. But it’s a matter I haven’t spoken about yet, I respected the manager’s choice. I spoke with him.’… this is my take from Sokratis’s interview and it worries me a lot that we have dictator and authoritarian as our coach.

      1. Saliba was a young boy when he signed with us, after he signed he lost both his parents. He was very close to his mother. To let Saliba play in France has many reasons, from my point of view a win-win decision for player and club. Now he will return as a much better player and probably be ready to play in Premier League.

        1. Some very good difficult but pertinent points made there Didrik Plehn, I believe that the Pandemic also had a part to play in some of the decisions made by all parties

            1. Perhaps you need to use Google and check some other sources Reggie. Are you are only reading the negative stuff 😉

              1. No, im hearing, reading and reading into what Saliba and his agent have been saying. The negative that you are on about, is just that because Saliba is negative about Arsenal and not about him staying in France.

                1. Well, I’m reading that we are about to hand him a new contract. Looking forward to have him in our squad next season.

          1. Thank you, and I agree with you. We had lots of internal and external obstacles and the pandemic made it even more complicated.

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