It’s not often you find supporters siding with a player who has just criticised the club publicly on social media.
But when Ainsley Maitland-Niles took to Instagram to make it clear, yes, he would like to leave Arsenal before the September transfer deadline, the response was one of sympathy rather than fury.
He is, as they say, ‘one of their own’ after all. The admiration between fans and player is mutual.
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