Hector Bellerin lifted the lid on what it has been like in the Arsenal dressing room lately.
The Gunners are not holding up too well in their top four race this season. They are 8 points behind one of the Champions League qualification spots and have a negative goal difference.
To add to the poor performances was the entire controversy surrounding Granit Xhaka. The Swiss midfielder being stripped off of his captain’s armband along with Unai Emery’s ineffective tactics has divided the Arsenal dressing room.
Bellerin, one of the four captains posted a Tweet telling his teammatest to join hands in this difficult period and to come out stronger. He also told The Sun, “It’s been hard as a player in the dressing room to deal with these situations. I think it’s important as a club, as everything being divided is never the way forward.
“Everyone demands different things, everyone demands different changes – but I don’t think that’s the way. I think the [right] way is accepting who we are, what we have, getting everyone together, supporting each other, and that is the way that we can reach our goals. One doing one thing, one doing the other… that’s never going to work.”
Looking back at his tweet, Bellerin added, “That was my call for unity in terms of us as a club, as a family, everything that Arsenal is.
“To get together when things don’t go well, that is the time for us to tap each other on the back and be like ‘come on, we need to do this better but we’re going to come back on top’.
“That is what we need, not to start pointing fingers and blaming someone for doing this, for doing that… We’re a club, we’re a team, we’re a family. What we need is to be there for each other. We are Arsenal Football Club. We always need to be at the top.”
