Mikel Arteta Sends Warning to Arsenal Stars After Aubameyang Axing

• Mikel Arteta has called on his Arsenal charges to accord him "respect and commitment"
• The Spaniard made the demand after he axed Aubameyang as the captain over a "disciplinary breach"
• It remains to be seen when the Gabonese will be integrated back to the squad having already missed some crucial matches

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has threatened to walk away from the club should players fail to respect him.

Arteta sent a stern warning to the rest of the Gunners squad just days after he exiled Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Aubameyang is yet to feature for Arsenal for days now, with the Gabonese getting the axe as the team's captain.

The striker was stripped of the role over what was described as "a disciplinary breach.

However, according to Arteta, he is not keen to run the club like a dictator but was quick to remind the squad to accord him respect.

“I just ask for one thing: respect and commitment. At this level, if I don’t get that, I will pack my bags and go somewhere else because that is the minimum I can ask for," the Spaniard was quoted saying.

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“I am going to expect that from everybody who works for the club. First of all from myself, and the day I don’t do that I will walk through that door and go and do something else. It is as clear as that," he added.

Arsenal, who have enjoyed a fine run of results are scheduled to take on basement boys, Norwich City, in their next Premier League outing scheduled for Sunday, December 26, at Carrow Road.

The north Londoners will be keen to secure a favourable result to cement their top-four place ahead of the new year.

Tuchel to contact Auba over Arsenal exile

Earlier, Sports Brief reported Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has shown a hand of support to embattled Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after the Gabonese was stripped of his captaincy following a disciplinary breach.

Tuchel who worked together with Aubameyang at Borrusia Dortmund has expressed his sympathy with the striker admitting he feels sorry for the Gabonese when he was questioned if he has spoken to the exiled Arsenal striker.

"I will at some point. I feel sorry that he is in trouble," the German boss conceded.