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Sep 22, 2023·edited Sep 22, 2023Author

At PATI, we realize that we are Arsenal version of business. We are not at the stage of Man City yet, but we will overthrow Man City soon. Two years.

https://theathletic.com/1459938/2019/12/20/mikel-arteta-arsenal-manager-manchester-city-pep-guardiola/

https://theathletic.com/4287702/2023/03/14/arsenal-premier-league-mentality/

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Friends would visit Arteta’s apartment in Manchester and be taken aback, alarmed even, by the way he was living, with notes and tactical diagrams stuck on the walls. The TV would inevitably be showing a football match from somewhere around the world and, if there was no live game on, he would, Wenger-esque, put on an old recording.

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In his final season at Arsenal, the club’s official website asked him to imagine setting up ‘Mikel Arteta FC’ and the ideas that would underpin it. “My philosophy will be clear,” Arteta said. “I will have everyone 120 per cent committed, that’s the first thing. If not, you don’t play for me. When it’s time to work it’s time to work, and when it’s time to have fun then I’m the first one to do it, but that commitment is vital. Then I want the football to be expressive, entertaining. I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition.

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