Kevin Mirallas has apologised on social media for his behaviour at an Everton training session last week.
The 30-year-old striker and Morgan Schneiderlin were left out of the Everton squad for Sunday’s 3-2 win over Watford after an incident at the club’s Finch Farm complex the previous day.
The Guardian reported on Monday that the pair were accused of a lack of commitment by the first-team coach, Duncan Ferguson, at a training session and were requested to leave unless they took preparations for the following day’s match more seriously. They apparently took up Ferguson’s offer which prompted the caretaker manager, David Unsworth, to send them home and exclude them from the squad to face Watford.
On Monday Schneiderlin, writing on Twitter, said he had not been “sent away from training” and now Mirallas has spoken out, admitting he struggled to contain his frustration after being told he was being left out.
“I have to restore the truth after some articles in the medias,” he wrote on Instagram. “I was not excluded of the squad due to a lack of commitment during training this was a manager Decision And I was frustrated as I am fully committed in Everton since arriving in 2012 and I can’t accept our actual ranking …
“I apologise to the president and owner, my team-mates and the manager for not being able to cope at that moment with my frustration.”
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