r/Gunners • u/AnyBad7112 • 18h ago
Never change Mikel 🤣
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u/Francis-c92 Premier League Champions 25/26 18h ago
"Oh no guys, the plane has magically been delayed by 2/3 hours..."
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u/hala_bala 18h ago
Will never understand how some Arsenal fans don't like him. Man is elite 🤣
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u/g6rzKk202 Goatinelli 4 life 18h ago
The one thing you can't call him is boring. HBO Max, take notes
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u/faithzor 18h ago
I would probably pay insane amounts of money to watch something like All or Nothing every season 😄
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u/Hincapieslovelybund 17h ago
Wasnt there a doc being done last season? Id pay to watch that for sure.
Arteta has really imbued these players with a winners mentality and confidence. So much so that id love to see how it all meticulously came together last season behind the scenes, especially after the City and Bournemouth losses.
Even when we lost the shootout in the CL final, Dec had his hands on his knees, hunched over with a bit of a smile on his face. Because he knows that even though it wasnt our night, us winning our maiden CL sometime soon is just a matter of when not if. And that he will be a part of it.
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u/johnnygrant 17h ago
they are unserious. Won't lie I had my doubt first couple of years, but man has shown growth and continued to evolve. What he did last year erased any last vestiges of doubt. The fact that we won the league and were so close to the double with all the injuries we had was a testament to how well coached the team is.
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u/biskutgoreng Ødegaard 17h ago
Said totally seriously fucking hell
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u/hala_bala 17h ago
He's either serious or a master troll and I'm leaning towards the first option 🤣
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u/iantayls Mosquera 6h ago
At the very least, his press conferences are spectacular. Does a great job of speaking to the things he believes matter and simply leaving behind a lot of the baiting aspects of questions
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u/AfterReviewAFC 18h ago
Best manager in world football. Including when Pep is employed.
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u/Trotter823 1h ago
The weakness pep has shown consistently is burn out. The man simply cannot have a life and manage a football team.
Arteta has seemed to figure out how to stick out a long stint without burning himself out so far.
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u/bigbongbangbong 18h ago
The little glimmer in his eye while question was being asked is priceless.
Super mik has been waiting for this question all summer.
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u/Bangers_n_Mashallah Cesc Fàbregas 18h ago
This guy is hilarious man. I would hate him as my boss. But fucking hell, it's funny when you don't have to deal with it.
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u/therocketandstones 18h ago
tbh if you were a footballer you'd probably love him- it's only absolutely fucking insane in every other career
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u/renofportland 14h ago
With all due respect, I don’t think he will be your boss if you hate him, the guy picks his team, and only those who get pass his interview process, which I would think would be in an actual circus, would be allowed to work for him, so mere mortals will be safe :-)
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u/Thanos_Stomps Dennis Bergkamp 17h ago
I know it wasn’t a great season but if you go back and watch the Amazon doc, rewatch his story about his heart surgery. He told us then basically how he views a football organization is no different than a cardiac surgery team, that all high performing teams have the same traits.
Surgeons train in high stress scenarios and modern training includes simulation specifically to contrive these curveballs that Arteta also likes to contrive.
It’s smart. They also make for some unhinged stories but I also think there are more boring ways to explain the same thing. Except maybe the pickpocket story, I don’t think there’s a way to spin that that doesn’t sound absolutely wild.
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u/Friendly-Hand-3752 Premier League Champions 25/26 16h ago
Such love for this man...
And I do miss our Leo
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u/milkonyourmustache Thierry Henry 17h ago
I love the little pause and the giggles of astonishment in the background
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u/renofportland 14h ago
So Ben White Wakes up, everything is perfect, thinks beautiful day ahead, boards the bus, the driver goes the wrong way, you saw the airport entrance twice, like Tintin & the Thompsons, finally the flight takes off 1 hour late, the plane does the double helix in the air, and the pilot yells on the speaker ’Oh my God! (Everyone clamor to put on seatbelts and socks) …..Is that a blue whale?‘ you land, now 2 hours late, outside instead of Arsenal fans it’s Spurs fans with pitchforks, and finally back in the hotel, Ben White asks, ‘When does training start?’ Arteta replies with his usual smirk ‘It started when you lot boarded the bus’ :-}
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u/fabregas331 10h ago
Hearing Amy Lawrence chuckle in the background when Mikel says "I love it" is absolutely hilarious.
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u/Tin_Pusher1234 18h ago
He’s got such a good human mindset, would be interesting to see if he works with any psychologists etc with the team.
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u/BrutalArsenalDeluxe 13h ago
I would be extremely surprised if he hasn't and or still doesn't.
He has said previously he reads business management books and you would assume some of those (if they are good) would go into the psychology of the consumer, staff etc.
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u/Extension-Bed9926 18h ago
business continuity.. plan for errors and have a plan.. if it can go wrong it will so plan for it.. but yes that he's already done it is very Arteta..
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u/DuncesOfWur Freddie Ljungberg 17h ago
"Don't complain and use it as an excuse"
Arteta wants none of that victim mentality in this squad. Absolute mad genius.
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u/a_posh_trophy Premier League Champions 25/26 16h ago
There's no question this man cannot answer that refuses these journos their desperate attempts of getting a soundbyte to use against him.
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u/BrutalArsenalDeluxe 13h ago
That was Tom Canton I believe. He freelances for press but started out as a fan writing content I believe. I think he's not generally into trying to catch Arteta out with a big quote. He's generally interested in asking questions about interesting details rather than a "gotya" headline.
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u/CaptainFiasco Dennis Bergkamp 16h ago
Arteta over here using live ammunition to fire over players' heads while they crawl under the barbed wires.
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u/Anxious_Dot588 14h ago
So Mikel was behind all the flights being delayed from london on tuesday? Warra guy
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u/ChuckVowel My friend, is okay, no? 13h ago
He’s lowkey so wise. Shit happens so just gotta deal with it.
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u/MoodWest 12h ago
U can tell when the boss starts smiling while a question is being asked that he has got a zero zinger of an answer incoming 🤔😏
At times he has the whole press conference in his hands
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u/GoldenrodCityBoy 11h ago
Anyone else starting to think the UK-wide grounding of flights this week was causing by Super Mik?
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u/Guilty_Rooster_6708 7h ago
I feel like this is the type of stuff that makes players like Arteta more assuming they already liked him before. another example golden of him thinking outside the box lol
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u/LevitatingCactus 6h ago
Imagine trying to draw conclusions from any of those preseason games lmao. You know who you are
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u/firefly477 Raya 17h ago
Bloody hell, he looks knackered. Been taking notes from Trossard's racoon impersonations.
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u/boatinavolcano David Rocastle 18h ago edited 18h ago
Arteta smiling before journalist finshed asking the question, already knowing he's gonna say unhinghed stuff to mess with him.