Graeme Souness looked at Mikel Arteta after Arsenal’s surprise defeat to Burnley on Sunday.
Arteta faces developing questions about her long career after the 1-0 loss to the Clarets, who were the seventh of the Gunners in their first 11 Premier League games this season.
Granit Xhaka was expelled for a moment of madness after the defeat, when he grabbed Ashley Westwood by the throat.
And Arsenal, at 10, succumbed to a fourth consecutive home defeat on the most sensible flight after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang headed to his own goal.
Arteta’s team might have been lucky enough not to be nine men after Mohamed Elneny admonished for putting his hands on James Tarkowski’s face when the Gunners defended a corner.
And Souness then smashed Arsenal’s technical team for giving the midfielder a very important role as a scorer with a loose kick.
“You build your team defensively,” Sky Sports specialist said. “Who in his staff concept would be a smart concept for Elneny to be scorer on a stopped kick, when Elneny absolutely ignores the ball and just looks at his boy and pushes him down?
“He [Elneny] comes down pretending to have been pushed. He’s been sent back there.
‘Who looked at the stage and the idea’ could be one of our markers?’If you do it once, you don’t have it close to scoring a player.
Souness said the 28-year-old Egyptian alien has known more than risking the referee’s wrath with his already precarious team.
“This guy is 28,” the former Liverpool midfielder said.
“Someone on your team must have noticed this and thought, “I’m not sure about this boss, let’s put someone else there. “A member of your team has to say, “It’s up to me. “
“They’ll let you know at 15, 16 how to score and if you have part of your brain, it’ll be in your head forever. Don’t tell me that Elneny hasn’t marked anyone in the afterlife in a stoppage for Arsenal and has shown symptoms that he may not be very good. “
Souness added: “Nine men may have been reduced smoothly tonight and, in my opinion, reduced to nine men.
“Someone on the training team must have noticed this in him and thought, “We can’t let him write down somewhere. “
He even blamed former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who signed Elneny from Basel in 2016.
“It has to happen to Arséne Wenger, ” said Souness. ” He signed it. The one who signed it and worked with him for a while. He or his coaches have to say, “That’s how you score. “
The loss left Arsenal ranked 15th in the Premier League, five numbers above relegation, ahead of an inescapable clash at home with Southampton on Wednesday.