Since Mikel Arteta first took helm to fill the shoes of Unai Emery, the Arsenal boss has made a habit of uprooting much of his predecessor's work.
The Gunners boss shunned many of Emery's signings, leaving little to no trace of Emery's opening transfer window at the club that cost around £72 million.
However, despite having seemingly swept his Spaniard counterpart's work under the carpet, Arteta did decide to persevere with the Emery's choice of captain.
So, Chris Davison and Bailey Keogh spoke live on The Arsenal Way to delve deeper into whether Arteta could've pre-empted Aubameyang's disciplinary circus had the Spaniard put his put his foot down at the first time of asking.
Davison kickstarted proceedings by probing as to whether the Gunners' boss should take a slice of the blame for the latest saga at London Coley.
"I think we've got to question Arteta's decision to stick with Aubameyang in the first place, in my opinion," he began.
"If he had freshened things up uh originally when he came through the door to replace Unai Emery then this situation may never have happened.
"Of course, we can only speak as fans because we don't see what Arteta sees every single day at the training ground, in the dressing room, but what we do see is Aubameyang play every week, we see training videos, we see interviews.
"We see enough of Aubameyang for us to get an incline as to what he's like as a character, as a person, as a player and, when I look at both sides, off the pitch he's got a great character he's a lovable person, great personality
"He's obviously a talented footballer. He's in his thirties now. He's obviously got that experience as a player and he's performed consistently at a high level throughout his career. He's got top quality that a lot of players can learn from."
Davison added by claiming that Aubameyang never had the core attributes to be a captain, noting how the striker's potential to often perform at the highest level wasn't enough.
"Apart from that, what has he got that gives him a reason to to own that captain's armband?" he said. "He can, as we've seen in recent times, go missing quite a lot.
"During the 90 minutes he doesn't have that much of an effect on games. He's not someone you see shouting off instructions to different players. He doesn't seem like that vocal type to get his message across.
"You hardly see him shouting at other people on the football pitch and demanding this and that. Of course being experienced and having top quality as a player is good to have as a captain but at the same time that's only part of it."
Davison concluded, detailing what he wants to see from his captain of Arsenal and why Kieran Tierney would be the ideal candidate.
"You've got to have those leadership skills, you've got to have a strong and loud voice for the rest of the group to hear. You've got to have the understanding of who needs to do what.
"Aubameyang just doesn't strike me as that sort of person to demand this from from his teammates. When Unai Emery originally named Aubameyang as the captain and then when Arteta came in and kept him captain I was thinking, 'you've got players like Tierney in this team.'
"A player we see every single game show passion, show fight and determination on top of the quality that he has as a player as. I don't think there's not a moment during the 90 minutes where Tierney is not talking to his teammates or giving advice and shouting instructions
"That's what a captain stands for in my opinion as well as being a respectable figure, a top professional off the pitch so, in my opinion, Arteta's got to take some responsibility and l'm glad he's finally rectifying it."
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