2024-08-16 10:43:41
It will be difficult to trace who saw or heard such a story. But there is no need to go to the recent past. A strange thing has happened in the present time. Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta taught the players by hiring pickpockets to ensure that the title is not lost.
Soccer media Goal.com reported that Arteta hired a group of professional pickpockets during the players’ dinner. They steal players’ phones and wallets. The Arsenal coach has explained through this strategy that the title is not stolen due to player misconduct this season.
There is a reason behind Arteta’s story. Arsenal have raised the prospect of lifting the trophy in the last two seasons. In the 2022-23 season, the team led the points table for most of the time but lost the trophy at the end.
And in the 2023–24 season, the trophy slipped away on the very last day, with City winning their fourth consecutive league title by just two points. Having eluded the trophy for two consecutive seasons, Arteta has now enforced the strictest rules on and off the field.
Arteta commented on this, ‘I don’t want to forget that. We need to have that pain, that hunger for what we want to achieve. Because, this competition is incredible.’
The English Premier League is starting today. The Arsenal coach is hopeful that the team will jump with their maximum this season, ‘If you look back, you will see what we have done in the Premier League in the last 11 months. Looking at the statistics, we should have won the trophy.’
“The reality is we didn’t win. So we have to do what Manchester City and other clubs have done before. I think we understand those differences. “The big 1 percent makes the difference,” added Arteta.
Arsenal play their first game of the season tomorrow against Wolves.