Francis Coquelin reveals why his first Arsenal training session was so 'explosive'

Coquelin was handed a week-long trial at the club's London Colney training base when he was 16.

However, the training session with the Gunners all those years ago left him questioning whether he would return to the club.

"When I left Arsenal I wasn’t sure whether I would come back,” Coquelin told Arsenal Magazine.

“I remember my first training session with the first team and it was war. I said to the boss at the door when I left, ‘This is different!’

“I remember seeing two players fighting in training, and I had an argument with Jens Lehmann as well and I was thinking, ‘Wow, where am I?’

“Two weeks later we had the European Under-17 Championship and I was more worried about whether I would be alright to play in that [than whether I would get a deal].”

Coquelin has started all of Arsenal's Premier League games to date this season.