Mikel Arteta reportedly ‘hired a team of professional pickpockets’ at an Arsenal dinner to teach his players a lesson.
Arteta has led the Gunners to consecutive second-placed finishes in the Premier League and has earned rave reviews for changing the fortunes of the club in his four-and-a-half years at the club.
He’s an odd bloke though, as became pretty clear in the ‘All or Nothing’ documentary that followed him and his team in the 2021/2022 campaign.
It includes explanations of how he’s changed the culture at the club, how he interacts with the players and coaches, his relationship with sporting director Edu and how that’s been key to their success in the transfer market.
But it begins with the revelation that Arteta hired someone to steal from his own players to teach them a lesson about ‘the importance of being ready and alert’.
