Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta, the teacher and the student will face each other this Friday in the English FA Cup in a match of the fourth round of the competition. For now, this season the student has done his homework and has its leading team prominent in the Premier League after spending years with the Catalan at City before joining the Gunners.
This Thursday, at the press conference prior to the match, Pep Guardiola was asked about his former assistant and he was full of praise for him, to finish by releasing a phrase that will give a lot to talk about and in which he mentions Barcelona, the team of his loves.
?? “Always he jumps and celebrates, except one team. One team every time we score a goal I jump, come back he was sitting there. It was Arsenal. I said that guy likes Arsenal.”
Pep Guardiola knew about Mikel Arteta’s great love for Arsenal from when he was working at Man City pic.twitter.com/DhhqHVV4jD
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) January 26, 2023
“If I’m training here, wherever and Barcelona calls me, I’ll go to Barcelona, it’s my club“pointed out a Guardiola who said about Arteta that “We scored a lot of goals and he was always jumping and celebrating, except against a team. I was jumping, celebrating, turning and he was sitting. It was Arsenal. Then I realized: ‘This guy likes Arsenal.’ Everybody He has dreams and I know he went to his club, the club he dreamed of. He was a fan of Arsenal because of playing there, he was captain and he loved that club. I didn’t want to oppose it. Life is too short. You have to fly“.
