Arsenal Has A Good Relationship With National Teams – Arteta

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said that the club has a very good relationship with most national teams. This comes despite 11 of the Gunners’ players withdrawing from international duty during the recent window.

Noting that his players were desperate to play for their countries during the recent international break, he stressed that the medical condition of every Arsenal player was clearly communicated to their national teams.

Mikel added that AFC needs to start putting out the strongest line-ups possible to win every competition left.

His words, “We have very good relationship and communication with most of the national teams – certainly with [England manager] Thomas [Tuchel] too.

We have been extremely supportive all the time. When you have to communicate the state of every player, we are always honest and a medical decision had to be made. That was clear what the conclusion was.

When you are fit and available to play for the national team, you have to play.

It makes us so proud that we had that many players in the national team.

Players are desperate to play for their nation. I know how important it is to them. We are fully supportive of that and when we can do it, we do it.

You will see. I will let you do the speculation. You can judge afterwards.

We are in a position right now where we need to make the strongest line-up we possibly can to win every competition.

We are two or three games away from the FA Cup and we know how important that competition is for us.”

WOW.

Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.

After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.

In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.