Arteta is coming

Football evolved at the speed of Pep Guardiola.

Many of the things that are ordinary today were extraordinary contributions from the Pep factory.

As the work had great European teams (Barça, Bayern and City) as vehicles, his influence filtered into all corners.

Even those who do the opposite of what he proposes quote him as if he were the devil.

Both make it a unit of measurement for current football.

Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola during Manchester City-Arsenal last Wednesday. DPA via Europa Press (DPA via Europa Press)

If there are trainers who, from remote places, respond to that influence, what will not happen to those who drank from its source.

Everything to get to Mikel Arteta, who lined up next to him.

Starting from Pep, he is managing to make Arsenal an author's team.

If he hadn't seen this week's exciting City-Arsenal game, he would have defined Arsenal as excited City.

But on Wednesday City matched him in enthusiasm and, in an exhibition, passed him over.

That does not detract from this Arsenal, in which the coach is seen in the method that structures the team, and in the freshness and speed of his dynamic associations.

Arsenal has spent the whole season trying to win in a fanatical way, as if every minute were the last and, furthermore, they were losing.

The players are young of two types:

those who want to prosper because they are ambitious, or those who want to take revenge for a previous experience that was not complete.

Out of appetite or revenge, everyone runs as if hungry;

by quality, they are all accurate in speed;

because the coach is good, everyone is convinced.

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The great leap of Mikel Arteta, visible head of an "author's" Arsenal

It is said that Arteta was about to be dismissed, at least twice, when the results were disappointing.

What a novelty.

But there was a plan, the plan required time and the managers knew how to understand it.

Dani Ceballos set the tone for me by telling me this incredible story.

At the beginning of Arteta's cycle and in the middle of a very regulated training session, Ceballos tried a play that skipped an expected link in the game.

And he did it well.

But Mikel stopped the training and warned him that this was not the time yet: "We will get to that level later," he told him.

It is for this reason that Ceballos is the least surprised by this competitive leap that Arsenal has taken.

Clearly, they already reached the upper level.

I find this respect for the plan incredible,

“Modern” Trainer

It will be that when extraordinary things happen there is, behind, an extraordinary head.

We are facing a modern coach.

"Modern" is a word that I never liked to use, but the truth is that football has become more complex.

Technology triggered tactical evolution and players train looking for certainties.

No one goes out into the field anymore to see what happens.

Doing it with young people has the benefit of favoring adaptation.

They are more obedient, have a cleaner head and a bigger ambition.

For older players, before installing a new idea, you have to help them unlearn what they are wearing from other experiences.

Arteta is part of a new generation of coaches who like the game to be how they thought it would be.

But his football appeal has to do with technical neatness and offensive ambition.

Arsenal don't speculate, they play.

If Arteta is Guardiola's next link, the future of football can be calm.

The new has already been born and is called Arteta.

The only problem with him is that the old continues to be renewed and his name is Guardiola.

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