Hatem Ben Arfa told Unai Emery in the spring of 2017 after Barcelona's remontada that he would never pass the quarter-finals of the Champions' League, even with the best team in the world, according to France Football.
Hatem Ben Arfa was also known to do little imitations of PSG manager Unai Emery's attempts to speak French for the other players. (FF)
Dani Alves requested that PSG Sporting Director duo Antero Henrique & Maxwell reinstate Hatem Ben Arfa into the 1st team, who he nicknames "Fenomeno" because of his brilliant abilities in training - without success, according to France Football.
At the end of a training session in April 2017, Hatem Ben Arfa joked to the Emir of Qatar Al Thani about how he was more accessible than President Al Khelaifi, who had been dodging meetings with the Frenchman. Al Khelaifi, humiliated, ensured Ben Arfa didn't play for PSG again.
Hatem Ben Arfa announced on Instagram last week that he is leaving PSG when his contract ends this summer - he is now thinking about how best to celebrate his birthday on April 5th & is tempted to bring everyone pizza in the PSG dressing room to provoke the club's staff. (FF)
In an autumn 2016 training session, Unai Emery said the following to Hatem Ben Arfa after the latter was being particularly selfish on the ball: "Stop taking yourself for Messi. You're not Messi." (FF)
5 months following his arrival, then PSG Director of Football Patrick Kluivert told Hatem Ben Arfa: "You have to leave, the manager doesn't want you, we have found you a club, Fenerbahce, you'll see Turkey is a good league." Ben Arfa ignored him. (FF)
Last summer, a Hatem Ben Arfa + money - Jean Michaël Seri swap deal was in the works on transfer deadline day, with Mario Balotelli even calling Ben Arfa to make him come back to Nice - everything else was agreed, but Ben Arfa said no. (FF)
Hatem Ben Arfa has previously been spotted by a PSG employee eating a kebab in the Camp des Loges training ground parking lot, according to @parisunited6's new book.
Hatem Ben Arfa today posted a 1-year anniversary photo of his being demoted from the PSG 1st team: "A year out in the cold is something to celebrate."
Hatem Ben Arfa has decided to sue PSG for what he views as unfairly denying him his morality bonus in the final year of his contract, according to Le Parisien.
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