Mikel Arteta has played a major role in my successes at Manchester City but I will let him leave if that is what he wants, Pep Guardiola has said.
Arteta, who has been Pep’s right-hand man during the numerous achievements for City, has been linked with his former club, Arsenal who recently sacked their manager, Unai Emery.
According to Pep, even if he wants Arteta to stay, he will stop him and make him feel uncomfortable if he wanted to leave.
His words, “[He has] a lot [of influence],”
“He is part of the huge success we had. An important part. What will happen will happen. I think he is part of our staff so what is going to happen I don’t know.
“At the end it’s personal, if he wants a job we are open to talk. I don’t want to make him uncomfortable.”
On Foden’s display vs Arsenal, “Played so good, as we knew it, as normal,”
“He played in a position he was not used to but playing away at a big club, always he does every action with a good rhythm.”
“It’s not frustrating, we play fantastic. We spoke about spaces and didn’t find them so well. We talked about that and we played better when Bernardo came on.
“We lose games this season and last season only a few, we sometimes play much better than today and we lost, football is sometimes about duty to analyse the game not just the result.”
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