Agree with NQ - everyone’s getting a final chance chance, even if we’re mostly just paying lip service to seniority until we can make the necessary changes. The fact is we could be saddled with most of these players until the end of the season and, as Emery found out, we’re likely to have to turn to everyone at some point - we need to keep everyone at least acting like professionals while they’re still here, otherwise certain players could cause a lot of friction and unrest, which we can’t afford.

Unless there’s a catastrophic breakdown in discipline that gives him an opening, I think Arteta will look to phase certain players out a little more subtly, e.g. use rotation or injuries / suspension as an acceptable excuse to swap in younger players, and then keep them in on the grounds of merit (rather than publicly humiliating a more experienced player by dropping them in front of the world). It’s a small difference, but you know what footballers are like with their fragile egos - this allows everyone to save a bit of face, and might be enough to keep the dressing room united until we can get through to the summer.