When you stop for months and you come back, you try everything, and I worked so hard to get back but then you do it again and again and again. You disappoint yourself and other people at the club, the manager, everybody. You don’t know how to get it right. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
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 in a professional way. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit of winning, winning, winning… after you win, you don’t want to stop winning. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
In my playing career, Anfield was the only ground where I had a feeling of being stuck. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
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 staff. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
Mauricio Pochettino – he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
Then you have to convince the players and get them on board with what you are doing, and after that you can start to build. But the identity is the foundation for everything. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
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 why you want to do it? Mikel Arteta Read Quote
I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them. Mikel Arteta Read Quote
