The PSG winger attacked the coaches for their boring brands of football - but does he have a point or does the end always justify the means?
Football has never been a matter of life and death but Hatem Ben Arfa revisited an old theme last week when he claimed that the likes of Jose Mourinho and Diego Simeone were killing 'The Beautiful Game'.
"Many coaches are convinced to produce football on the pretext that they are looking for a system to block the opponent," the Paris Saint-Germain forward told France Football.
"But [what you have] with Mourinho and Simeone, this is not in the essence of football.