Ferdinand says Arteta would ‘100%’ stop Arsenal for Prem membership – and never Man City
Rio Ferdinand reckons Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta would bounce ship to Manchester United with out batting an eyelid if he acquired the prospect.
Arteta’s group is on a scorching streak, scoring 25 objectives in six consecutive wins and so they’re simply behind Liverpool and Manchester City in third within the Premier League. The Spaniard has been on the helm since December 2019 and is hoping to ship the Gunners’ first title since 2004.
They’re additionally nonetheless in with a shout within the Champions League, regardless of a primary leg defeat away at Porto. But although he isn’t searching for one other job proper now, Ferdinand thinks Arteta is perhaps up for shifting if stress grows too nice on United’s present boss, Erik ten Hag – regardless of the shambolic present state of the Red Devils, who’re slumped in sixth and out of Europe.
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The Daily Mirror report that Ferdinand stated on his present FIVE: “Arteta would leave Arsenal to come to Man United, 100%.No-one is saying it’s happening, but if Man United, in their wildest dreams, said ‘do you know what, Erik ten Hag, thank you’, or Erik ten Hag has been poached by Bayern Munich and he goes there, and Man United say ‘right, top of our list, Mikel Arteta’, Arteta is going in [to Arsenal] and saying ‘listen lads, it’s been emotional, but I’ve got to move and got to go’.”
Arteta has beforehand made it clear he is tremendous completely satisfied in north London. And he was not happy with “fake news” about him leaving for Barcelona when Xavi Hernandez leaves. In January, he stated: “That’s totally fake news. What you read yesterday… I don’t know where it is coming from and it is totally untrue. I am really upset about it.”
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“I could not believe it. I don’t know where it is coming from and it has no source. It has got nothing and I think we have to be very cautious when you talk about personal things to put it in the way it was put yesterday.”
He loves being at Arsenal and stated: “I am in the right place. I am with the right people. I feel really good about it. And, as I said many times, I am invested in a beautiful journey with this football club, with these players, these staff, our people, and there is still a lot, a lot to do.”
Arteta needs everybody to know that Arsenal is aiming excessive and he is all in: “We all share that ambition and you can feel it as well, that we want more, that we aren’t satisfied and that the club wants to take another push and another level in everything we are doing, this is where we are. We need everyone on board to achieve it and I am certainly on board.”
When quizzed about his contract particulars, he expanded: “I think I have got a strong relationship with the board, with [sporting director] Edu, with Tim [Lewis, executive vice-chairman], with the ownership and things come in a natural way. We have always done that way and it worked out really well. And when the time is right we will have those discussions and think about the best way to do it.”
