HECTOR BELLERIN has revealed the Arsenal dressing room is still divided over the Granit Xhaka “f*** off” row and has called for unity.
Last month, Xhaka unleashed an X-rated on-field rant at Gooners during the 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace after he was booed.
Bellerin has demanded club unity after Xhaka’s ‘f*** off’ row with fans
The Swiss midfielder has since admitted he “can’t accept what’s happened” with his future now up in the air.
Boss Unai Emery is desperate to keep Xhaka at the club, but both AC and Inter Milan are chasing the former Gunners captain.
But amidst all the drama, Bellerin has called for the players to come together in a bid to get Arsenal back to the top.
Last month, shortly after the row, the Spaniard tweeted: “We are all humans, we all have emotions, and sometimes it’s not easy dealing with them.
“It’s time to lift each other up, not to push each other away. We only win when we are together. #COYG”
And now, when asked if his tweet was still true, Bellerin replied: “Those words, what you’ve just read, are just how I felt after the few events we’ve had in the past few weeks.
“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.”
Arsenal manager Unai Emery says that Granit Xhaka could be welcomed back as long as he doesn’t forget his mistake
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
