Mikel Arteta insists he is no dictator amid accusations that he was too strict with players such as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Sportsmail columnist Martin Keown still questions whether the Arsenal boss was right to exile the striker last year over breaches of discipline.
‘Maybe the player could have been forgiven,’ Keown said on Friday. ‘You have these ideas of how you want to live a perfect life, and then you look around and you see that players have flaws.’ Rather than trying to be ‘righteous and virtuous’, Keown believes managers should make allowances for ‘young players who make mistakes’.