Mikel Arteta has informed 16-year-old Max Dowman ‘we’re not in Disneyland’ as he insists his age doesn’t give him a free move following his crimson card towards Fleetwood.
Dowman reacted to a heavy problem within the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night time and was despatched off for the second time this month, having additionally seen crimson whereas representing England’s Underneath-19s.
Arteta appeared to have phrases with the teen as he trudged off the pitch earlier than the Gunners had been overwhelmed on penalties, and on Friday he instructed Dowman ought to have saved his cool beneath provocation.
‘Once I do not win, you recognize what the response is? I am p***** off, large time, you recognize,’ stated Arteta. ‘We should be prepared for it. That is the setting, and that is the fact. In any other case, we’re in Disneyland. We’re not in Disneyland.
‘We’re within the Premier League at this stage, and we glance after him a lot such as you can’t think about.
‘However on the identical time, we’ll demand of him the identical as anyone else, as a result of he must earn the fitting to play. In any other case, the remainder of the boys, what are they going to inform me?’
The Gunners did attraction towards the crimson card after Tuesday’s exit however had been yesterday informed it had failed, and Dowman will serve a three-match ban.
Mikel Arteta has phrases with Max Dowman after his crimson card towards Fleetwood
