Irons hope defender’s ‘wake up call’ works out

Carl Jenkinson was told tonight: “We want the player back we saw last season.”

The Arsenal right back has been well out of favour of course after a poor start to his second Boleyn lon spell and club insiders have claimed that having been sent a “serious wake up call” he is ready to come back and stake his claim big time.

Jenkinson is costing the club  around £4 million in loan fee and wages but has been a shadow of the player we saw last season.

And although the calm Slaven Bilic never makes a song and dance of his dilemmas he has been very disappointed the player has failed to fire so far.

He has responded with a steel fist inside the velvet glove by not hesitating to drop him in order to give him a dose of shock treatment.

And a top insider told us this evening: “For all the pleasant and amiable approach from the manager, he knows exactly how to operate in circumstances.

“Jenks has had a wake up call. We all expected him to be left out for one game but it’s extending now although we get the impression he will soon get his chance again.

“We all want to see the player who performed so well last season and hope the spell on the sidelines will have had the desired effect.”