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<\/p>\nThe current Gunners captain has been left in England, as his team-mates flew to Los Angeles to continue preparing for the new season. <\/p>\n
Koscielny, 33, is in the final year of his contract but wants the club to release him as a free agent this summer.<\/p>\n
Wright, speaking on his YouTube channel, said the French defender is being badly advised and is threatening to ruin his legacy at the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s given us unbelievable service, we\u2019ve seen him play through pain and build a legacy and legendary status he deserves.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the time in the season where everybody is meant to be together. We are in for a tough season, a transitional period, we need a lot of catching up.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor our captain to refuse to go on a pre-season tour after nine years of unbelievable service, to destroy your legacy a little by refusing to play for a club is something that is baffling me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy Laurent? Who are your advisers and what are they saying to you?<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so disappointed in your decision to do this at this time if your agent sees this, and I hope they do, shame on you, shame on you, for doing this to him and convincing him. No way you can tell me he will come up with this on his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re the one we chose as our captain, our leader, and now we\u2019re going into pre-season with our captain refusing to go on the tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something I cannot get my head around and I pray to god it can be resolved sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t set a good example, Arsenal need to do something quick and discipline (him). I love you Laurent but this is a poor decision,\u201d Wright said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Arsenal striker, Ian Wright, has slammed Laurent Koscielny for refusing to travel for pre-season with the rest of the squad. The current Gunners captain has been left in England, as his team-mates flew to Los Angeles to continue preparing for the new season. Koscielny, 33, is in the final year of his contract but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427],"class_list":["post-135405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}