Arsenal star, Mohamed Elneny, has taken a veiled swipe at the club\u2019s former manager, Unai Emery, ahead of the Gunners\u2019 UEFA Europa League semi-final tie with Villarreal on April 29.<\/p>\n
Elneny said he is now happy at Emirates under current Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, adding that Emery didn\u2019t give him a chance to play.<\/p>\n
The midfielder made 17 appearances in all competitions during Emery\u2019s regime at Emirates.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old was loaned out to Besiktas last season but was offered an opportunity to resurrect his Arsenal career at the start of the current campaign under Arteta.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are good, you will play, if you are not good, you will be on the bench, or you will be out of the squad,\u201d Elneny told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what I love from Mikel Arteta because it is fair. If you train good and you train hard, and you are ready to play, he will give you a chance to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what I missed before with Emery. He wasn\u2019t giving me a chance to play, and that\u2019s why I get a chance to go to Turkey and prove myself, and I come back, and I\u2019m happy about myself now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arsenal star, Mohamed Elneny, has taken a veiled swipe at the club\u2019s former manager, Unai Emery, ahead of the Gunners\u2019 UEFA Europa League semi-final tie with Villarreal on April 29. Elneny said he is now happy at Emirates under current Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, adding that Emery didn\u2019t give him a chance to play. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343341,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4427,13123],"class_list":["post-343340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-arsenal","tag-elneny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343340","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=343340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/343341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}