How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
Monday is going to be a very difficult day, I believe, because after all these emotions, you realise that probably you hang up your boots and stop doing something I have been doing for the last 17 or 18 years… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you're not winning you have to be… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
What I've learned mostly is that you have to be ruthless and you have to be consistent and you have to fit every day… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game. — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
Then you have to convince the players and get them on board with what you are doing, and after that you can start to… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want. — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists - they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
If you don't have the right culture, in the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
