Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has come out to share what makes him a successful manager at the club. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he is so grateful that the vision, idea and plan he had for the Arsenal team is slowly but surely coming together, and connecting with many people at the club makes him feeel powerful.
Arteta added that despite playing football in the past, nothing compares to the feeling of succeeding as a manager.
His words, “When you come through that door, everyone’s expecting you to do something about it. They’re all looking at you and you have to have the right answers. And I always said there’s nothing like being a player, but I’m not so sure about that now. When you have a vision, an idea or a plan to do something, and actually that happens and you’re able to connect that many people, that’s so powerful. And as a manager that’s something that’s a unique feeling and you don’t get it as a player.”
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.
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