Arsenal legend Ian Wright feels Joe Hart's axing could be the best thing to happen to the Manchester City goalkeeper.
Wright says Hart will come back a better keeper and stronger person from the controversy.
He told Absolute Radio: "You have to be on the top of your game, every game, because there is somebody looking to take your position. You get paid a lot of money to play football. I always used to pour scorn on that when people said that, I used to say what has that got to do with it, but the fact that somebody is willing to give you that kind of money is because they know that you are capable.
"It is up to Joe to make sure that he has got the right people round him. I said he needs a coaching team, and he needs goalkeepers around him that have been through what he is going through right now, so they can help him through that. That is what I've said. I think it is a good thing that the mistakes he is making up to this point, to be taken out of the team, for him to be sitting on the bench, asking 'when am I going to get myself into this team?'.
"If (Costel) Pantilimon doesn't make any mistakes, why should he be dropped? That is how you make competition for places, that is how a player then works on his game to become better, and when Joe Hart gets his chance again, I guarantee you he will be a different person.
"That is why he needs this. Everybody is saying, 'well it's not going to be good for England'. No, it is not going to be good for England, but in the years to come we will have a better goalkeeper because he will have learned from the fact that he needed the break that he got."
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