'Trying to finalise a few things, THAT'S IT TODAY!' | Mikel Arteta | Arsenal v Man Utd - video Dailymotion

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Press conference with Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta ahead of his side's Premier League match against Manchester United.  The Gunners have seven points from their first three matches.  Please subscribe, like the video and share wherever you can!  **DO NOT copy and re-upload any part of this video anywhere otherwise copyright strikes will be made! You do not have my permission to use this footage**  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BeanymanSports TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@BeanymanSports Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BeanymanSports Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeanymanSports  For business enquiries, sponsorships, and ads, please contact beanymansportsmarketing@gmail.com  #arsenal #arteta #mikelarteta Mikel Arteta Arsenal press conference today  Timeline courtesy of Warrior J93 0:00 Intro 0:24 Transfer news 1:20 Transfer Deadline Day 2:22 Eddie Nketiah 3:13 Manchester United 4:47 Unbeaten run 5:24 Lineup change 6:03 Formation 8:15 Zinchenko 9:01 Ben White 9:32 Emile Smith Rowe 9:46 Champions League draw 10:31 Not signing a Timber replacement 11:21 Rasmus Hojlund - “Prefer Not to speak” 11:57 Decision on top 12:43 More on Emile Smith-Rowe 13:30 “Every player has to do it” 14:16 Outro | Please like the video and subscribe!

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00:00 Hello, Mikael. Thanks for your time. Three outs in the last week. Flo, Kieran, Nuno

00:29 today?

00:30 We're working together to find the best possible solutions. We found them and I think the players

00:40 are happy and the club in general. I think we did some good business as well.

00:44 With Balogun it's obviously a permanent deal and a good deal as well because pure profit,

00:50 an academy graduate and I think a 17.5% salon clause as well.

00:56 We didn't have enough space for him in the squad to give him the minutes that he needs

01:00 and he did really well last year in his long period and he's evolving the right way. He

01:06 wanted as well the chance to continue developing his career. He's going to a really good club.

01:11 They have huge experience in developing talent as everybody knows. So really happy for him

01:16 as well.

01:17 It's deadline day. Are you as excited as the rest of us?

01:22 You should be tired. You've been doing that for many months. I think it's the end at least

01:28 here in the UK. Not everywhere but at least here. Let's finish it in the right way.

01:33 Mikael, Arteta deadline day. MADD. Is it going to be a MADD one or a Serene one for you?

01:41 For me Serene. I don't have to do much more work. It's more the recruitment, everyone,

01:45 the boys trying to finalise a few things.

01:48 Can you bear with us if I play a little game of stay or go?

02:00 In what sense? Police coming in you mean? I don't expect anyone to come in.

02:04 Stay or go. Rub holding. Stay or go.

02:07 I'm not going to reply anything.

02:10 So it's not stay or go, it's no?

02:13 There is nobody else coming in. We don't expect. That's all I can say.

02:17 So it's not stay or go. Obviously not staying with you in this international break but going

02:22 on England duty. Eddie, are you pleased for him?

02:25 So pleased. If someone deserves in this squad that's him as well. An academy player that

02:30 had some moments when his pathway wasn't very clear and he had to fight it through. I just

02:38 love his mentality, his work rate, how much he loves this game and how hard he's fought

02:44 to be recognised at that level in this country to play there. You have to be phenomenal at

02:49 something and I'm so happy for him.

02:52 Do you take personal pride in the part you've played?

02:55 I think everybody that's been involved in his development obviously feels extremely

03:00 proud to be part of that journey with him. Everybody that was here at the academy with

03:04 him, everybody that has been in that journey, his family for sure they're extremely proud

03:09 of him. So really nice moment for him.

03:11 Manchester United, always a big game. How important is it that you put down a marker

03:16 this early in the season with a victory?

03:19 Well that's what we want obviously. We know the history between the two clubs and the

03:23 games that we had in the past as well. Last year was a really good example. So it's going

03:27 to be an extremely competitive match, really a big battle on Sunday and obviously we want

03:34 to come away from that with three points.

03:37 How much do you view this meeting as an early indicator of both clubs' credentials for Premier

03:50 League title?

03:51 I don't know. I think it's that early in the season. We all want to win games, we all

03:56 want to play the best possible way and that is not going to dictate but obviously give

04:01 you momentum and give you belief. Before the international break it's always very important

04:06 to finish well, to win your game and go back now in September with another block of games

04:12 before the next one with a high.

04:14 Both league fixtures last season between you and United were pretty gripping. I think nine

04:19 goals scores between you. What is it about this encounter that makes it such a high scoring

04:23 fixture?

04:24 Well first of all the quality of the players. Obviously there are a lot of offensive top

04:29 players in the two teams and probably the approach of both teams, the way they want

04:36 to play. There were some errors as well there in both which hopefully we can eradicate as

04:42 well but normally it's a very entertaining match.

04:45 You remain unbeaten after three games, seven points from nine, a return only vetted by

04:51 Man City so far. You spoke though of your frustration at points lost in Saturday's

04:55 draw against Fulham. How much do you feel that last season's title challenge has raised

05:00 expectation around the club's ambitions this season for yourself personally and also for

05:04 your fans?

05:05 We raise the level in everything that we do every single year and we have to demand each

05:09 other more and better and this is what we do. When you see the reaction when you draw

05:14 a match I think it's a great indicator of where you want to be and the demands that

05:18 you put to yourself.

05:20 You've been fairly experimental in your line-ups and your open games so far compared to last

05:27 season at least. How happy are you with the effect that those changes have had on your

05:31 team as a whole and how happy are you with your players?

05:35 Really happy. I said against Fulham after watching the game twice that we played ten

05:39 times better. I don't know if it was six or ten but we definitely played six or ten times

05:44 much better but this is about results and one thing is to play really well and the other

05:48 is to compete really well. What we didn't do is we had to compete in certain moments

05:53 the best possible way to do that. But play ten times better. I reaffirm you again.

05:59 What is it about this formation that you played last week and this defence that you like so

06:06 much that makes you play ten times better?

06:09 What formation is it?

06:10 You're at the fore at the back, Partey at right back, you've got Benwick, Gabriel and

06:14 then Kiriuk at left back. What did you like so much about that?

06:18 I think we discuss formations in a different way. The other day there were 36 different

06:25 formations in the match. Against Manchester City 43. So I don't know what formation we

06:33 talk about. For me it's something very different. Maybe for the eyes that you look.

06:37 But I think a lot of people look at the teams you've picked and say the back four you picked

06:46 last season were so successful.

06:47 Ah, the personnel is different.

06:48 Is there a chance you could revert back to that for the Man United game on Sunday?

06:54 I played differently against Manchester City and there were 43 different structures in

06:59 different phases. Every morning I come from my house to Colney. Sometimes I leave at six

07:07 and I need to go to the windscreen because it's icy. At six o'clock normally I go to

07:12 Finsbury Road and then A41 because it's faster. Now Finsbury Road is 20 miles an hour so sometimes

07:17 I take a back door. But then I go on M25. But depending if it's a school ride at that

07:23 time I take one exit. If it's after seven o'clock I take a different exit and then I

07:29 go. And one day I have a flat tyre, what do I do? I have to replace it. Maybe I take a

07:33 different road because the garage is there. So every game is a different story, guys.

07:38 Different story.

07:39 In that case then, are you tempted to play the side that was so successful for you last

07:45 season?

07:46 I cannot do that. I have different players. I cannot do that. Chichengo was injured, Granit

07:53 is not here, how can I do that? Unless we bring them back I think it's not going to

07:58 happen. It's different and it's going to be different. And the others are going to be

08:01 different because it's a different season and this is the beauty of it. The beauty of

08:06 the thing that I enjoy the most. That is new and we can still do much, much better a lot

08:10 of things. Let's do that.

08:12 Will Chichengo be back for Sunday? Because he's so critical to the way you play.

08:18 Chichengo is a really important player for us. Like it was Jurien. What Jurien was giving

08:23 us in the first few games was incredible. But he wasn't there so we have to do something

08:27 else. And we have another injury, we're going to have to do something else. And if Bukayo

08:32 is not there, we're going to have to do something else. So the N25 won't be good enough. Maybe

08:35 we take another one. But if I speak to a taxi driver that has learned the whole of London

08:41 for 20 years, I know nothing compared to him because he will tell me all the streets and

08:46 options and the best times.

08:47 N25 is very bad at the moment by the way.

08:50 I know. Depending on what time though. I'm telling you, at 6am it's ok. At 6am take

08:56 it. It's the fastest way.

08:58 Ben White has been over Ben White's win over Gareth Southgate?

09:09 Ben has been incredible since the start of the season again. Obviously we know that he

09:15 was there and what happened is totally down to Southgate and him to make that decision

09:23 that call whenever it is necessary. But he certainly has the level and I think he's proven

09:27 that over the last few years.

09:28 Will Emile Smith-Rose be in the transfer window?

09:37 They're all like everybody else. Just to try to give his best to make the team better.

09:43 What are your thoughts on the Champions League draw?

09:47 It was first of all great to see that. I was there with my kids waiting for it. They were

09:51 betting on it and it was great fun. It's what it is. We don't have any say on that.

09:57 Some beautiful games to play. Some very difficult matches to play as well. Very looking forward

10:02 to start that journey.

10:03 Does it make you even more excited for the Champions League?

10:11 For sure. We were waiting for it. You just want to understand who you're playing and

10:14 once we get the pictures and the date even more so we can start really preparing for

10:19 those games.

10:20 Is that a competition you think Arsenal can win this year?

10:23 We are participating so we have a chance. But let's start with the first game and see

10:28 what we get.

10:29 When Timber got injured there was an expectation from the outside righty or wrongly that you

10:37 would go into the market and maybe sign another defender. Now you're saying you're not expecting

10:41 anyone else to come in. What happened? Did you not find the right player? Did you decide

10:47 you've got the options internally?

10:49 We've done quite a lot and obviously we have a lot of uncertainty with a lot of players

10:53 as well so we have to be very cautious and find alternatives and ways. Not sometimes

11:01 that you want to do everything that is needed. Sometimes it's not possible and we have to

11:04 adapt.

11:05 So was it a case then that had you been able to get players out?

11:08 Yeah, we cannot go and buy another three players and if somebody gets injured long term do

11:13 something else. It was just not possible.

11:16 United signed Rasmus Hoyland for a lot of money in the summer. He's not played in England

11:22 yet. How much do you know about him?

11:25 I prefer not to speak about players of his league. He's a huge talent and everybody is

11:29 talking really highly of him and he will have to prove that in this league.

11:33 How unpredictable is it to face United when you don't know where they are playing with

11:39 that big money?

11:41 I don't know. Like any other club they will try to get their squad at the highest level

11:46 and have all the different qualities that they need to challenge for all the trophies

11:51 and I'm sure that's what they're trying to do.

11:53 Is it even more difficult for you to make that decision at the top?

12:08 No, I don't see it that way. I just see right there and I see a player that at the end is

12:19 something that has happened for a reason and the reason is the way he pushes everybody,

12:23 the way he pushes himself every single day to be as best as he possibly can and that's

12:28 the headache that he gives us every single day.

12:30 I said it when I didn't play against Man City, why he did it and I'm sure that everybody

12:35 he's been with, when he's been with United 18, 19, 21, 23, the senior team is going to

12:40 be doing the same with every manager.

12:42 Have you had any conversations with Emile Mbappé since he's come back from such a successful

12:47 England under 21 years, just to say this is my plan for you this season, this is what

12:51 I need for you and the squad or is it letting him get on with it on the training ground?

12:55 No, obviously I had conversations with him and it's important for him to understand where

12:59 he is and it was always going to be tricky the first three or four weeks, not for us

13:03 but for all the clubs and you see all the rumours and all the players that are not playing

13:07 that are unhappy and not only in this country but in every country because it's one game

13:11 per week for a month and everybody is going with a new season with huge aspirations and

13:17 there is no minutes for everybody and September will be very different.

13:21 Can every professional footballer do that or when you recruit do you have to look for

13:31 players that can take those things on board?

13:34 Every player has to do it, unconsciously it's possible. But every player has to do it. Some

13:40 of them do it consciously and unconsciously provoking the right thing, making the right

13:44 decision and others just do it naturally and they are in the wrong position a lot. But

13:49 that happens in the game, that's a fact. It's like your battery life is two hours, two and

13:53 a half hours. In football there are that many structures that happen in a football match.

13:58 Is that changed in the modern game or were you a player that would have to do a similar

14:02 thing when you played?

14:03 Depends a lot on the position. Against Man City they were more because they changed formation

14:07 more so it's a lot of sequences of play that permitted more structures. So it was different.

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