#ProjectArtetaball thread:

“Friends would visit Arteta’s apartment in Manchester and be taken aback, alarmed even, by the way he was living, with notes and tactical diagrams stuck on the walls.”

Pep on Arteta: “He’s so happy when we win but suffers when we don’t. He has an incredible work-ethic and he has a special talent to analyse what happens, and to find the solutions. Maybe I learned more from Mikel than he did from me.”

Tierney on Arteta: “His analysis is just amazing. He knows what’s going to happen in a game, and how it’s going to happen, where you’re going to get pressed from and where your options should be.”

Arsenal’s team goal for the opener in the FA cup semi-final. #ProjectArtetaball

Like Wenger, Arteta also speaks 5 languages; Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English. Here he is speaking French to Pepe in the FA cup semi-final.

“We need to become addicted to winning trophies.” #ProjectMikel

Arteta on pre-season: “I want to see the reaction, how the players come back after winning the cup. Are they going to be a little more relaxed because we’ve done something or will they come with the attitude of ‘this is nothing that we’ve done’. We have to go the next level.”