Category: Arteta

ARTETA KEEN ON A MIDFIELDER

By - October 9, 2020 Leave your thoughts

 

Mikel Arteta is keen on adding a midfielder to the first team before the summer window closes in two weeks, per reports. The Arsenal first team manager – promoted recently from his Head Coach role when he joined in December – has been on the heels of Atletico’s Thomas Partey and Lyon’s Houssem Aouar, hoping to land one this summer.


The Gunners have started the season well, beating Fulham 3-0 away and West Ham at home 2-1, off the back of their Community Shield win over Premier League champs Liverpool.
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ARSENAL PREPARE TO SELL CAPTAIN AMID COVID19 CRISIS

By - April 23, 2020 Leave your thoughts

Arsenal could part ways with club captain and top goalscorer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The player and the club have agreed to part ways. The player told the club he will not sign a new deal. Both club and player weigh up their respective options looking ahead, and it has been decided that it is best they go separate ways.


Aubameyang who arrived as a club record signing for the Gunners has less than 18 months on his contract. He arrived just a little over two years ago and has scored 61 goals in fewer than 100 appearances. Still, it is now possible that the relationship between the two is just a short one.
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GUARDIOLA TO STAY TO RECLAIM EPL

By - February 13, 2020 Leave your thoughts

Former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha believes contrary to reports that current city coach Pep Guardiola is looking outside for the next experiment, he is more likely to stay put with the Citizens and try to outdo what Liverpool had done this season.


The former Barcelona coach lost Mikel Arteta to Arsenal but he can easily find another person to fill his role and continue with the new challenge at hand: reaching and possibly surpassing the bar Liverpool have raised.
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MIKEL ARTETA RUMORED FOR GUNNER JOB

By - November 19, 2019 Leave your thoughts

Unai Emery’s job at Emirates is almost over even though he just began and ex-Arsenal player are among those rumored to being shortlisted for the Gunner job.


The Spaniard has lost the confidence of the board room, fans and even his squad and even the ants on the walls of the Emirates stadium won’t vouch for him at this point.
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MANCHESTER CITY VS SPURS REVIEW

By - September 20, 2019 Leave your thoughts

Manchester City were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Tottenham in what was perhaps the most unlucky result of the weekend. The Citizens were exceptional on the day blocking Mauricio Pochettino’s men to just three shots on target.

However, Tottenham were clinical and scored two goals out of the Blue which stunned the home fans. Guardiola would have learned some valuable lessons after the game despite the late VAR decision to overturn the goal.
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MAHREZ WILL BIDE TIME

By - May 30, 2019 Leave your thoughts

Riyad Mahrez, who was the first name of the team sheet at Leicester City, has not got quite the same sort of treatment at his new club Manchester City and that’s understandable too.

Mahrez is an extraordinary talent, there is no doubt about it, but Manchester City has a lot more options at their disposal than Leicester had and considering the kind of form that their first choice wingers have been in, it’s not a huge surprise that Mahrez has not got as much of game time as he would have liked. The 28-year old is however not very pleased with it as per the reports.
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CITY LOOKING FINELY TUNED FOR THE QUADRUPLE

By - March 15, 2019 Leave your thoughts

Manchester City faceSchalke O4 this evening in the first of two competitions slated for the Blues this week the other the FA Cup clash at Swansea in the weekend. If City are able to come out of the two clashes unscathed this would add more credence to the noise about a potential quadruple.

Pep Guardiola has been quick to downplay any notion about the quadruple but the longer Manchester City continue to win the louder it would grow. The excuse of injuries and the squad being stretched is true to some degrees but Guardiola and his coaching staff which includes Mikel Arteta have been able to manage this excellently.
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ARTETA: CITY PLAYERS BEST IN THE WORLD

By - January 25, 2019 Leave your thoughts

Manchester City assistant coach Mikel Arteta is of the opinion that the club’s players are the best crop anyone can find in the world at the moment.

Arteta stood in for fellow Spaniard Pep Guardiola when the manager received a touchline ban for City’s Champions League opening game against Olympique Lyonnais in September last year.
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City can still improve

By - November 20, 2018 Leave your thoughts

Manchester City assistant coach Mikel Arteta believes that his team can still improve. He said that it is true that they have made a good start to the season but he thinks that the team can still become better. He said that when analyzing games afterward you can see that there are some mistakes and that they should work on eliminating those mistakes.

He said that when playing against the better sides these mistakes can cause problems and this is why they need to improve. He said that the Manchester City players should learn how to keep possession better and make sure that they do not open themselves up for counter-attacks.
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Henrikh Mkhitaryan: Unai Emery similar to ex-Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger

By - September 25, 2018 Leave your thoughts

Arsenal attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan has said that manager Unai Emery has a similar philosophy to that of former Gunners boss Arsene Wenger. The Spaniard took charge of the club during the summer following Wenger’s resignation and he has witnessed a tough start to the season with back-to-back losses against Manchester City and Chelsea.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Mkhitaryan indicated that both Emery and Wenger are quite identical in terms of the tactics on the playing field, though the former has tried to balance things with emphasis also on the defensive side of the game, he said: “It’s not too different but there are different things because there is not people playing in the same way or thinking in the same way, the philosophy is different. Emery kept the philosophy of Wenger but is building something new on it. He knows he can give something different to this club, like the balance between attack and defence. It’s not easy but I think he’s doing it in the right way.”
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