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Mikel Arteta has been brutally mocked by shot fans for his effort to hole his Arsenal broadside for nan upcoming Premier League season.
The Gunners person fallen agonisingly short of their extremity to triumph nan English top-flight successful each of nan past 2 seasons, while their return to nan Champions League besides ended successful disappointment.
Arsenal spell into nan upcoming run arsenic 1 of nan favourites erstwhile much and it appears Arteta is leaving nary chromatic unturned successful his purpose to get his squad complete nan line.
As revealed successful The Athletic, Arteta secretly hired a squad of master pickpockets tasked pinch taking phones and wallets during a meal pinch his first-team squad.
At nan extremity of nan meal, nan Spaniard asked players to quiet their pockets. Several past realised they were missing valuable items. This workout was supposedly done to thatch them of nan value of being alert astatine each times.
Mikel Arteta reportedly pulled a stunt connected his Arsenal players astatine a meal successful bid to thatch them a lesson
Various Gunners players had their valuables stolen by master pickpockets hired by nan manager
It's unclear really good nan stunt went down pinch nan Gunners players that nighttime but fans person reacted alternatively negatively to nan lesson.
'Thats really to build spot pinch your players, by robbing them all,' wrote 1 instrumentality connected X, who accompanied their station pinch a laughing emoji.
Another said: 'And they'll ne'er spot him again.' A 3rd personification connected level said: 'Bro thinks pickpocket will get hole them to triumph nan league.'
'How does this correlate pinch shot aliases winning nan convention huh,' wondered different shocked personification connected X.
Arteta is not nan first Premier League leader to beryllium bullied for a school aliases motivational tactic. Then-Liverpool head Brendan Rodgers infamously took 3 envelopes into his first pre-match gathering arsenic boss, held them up to his squad and told them nan names successful nan envelopes would fto him down during nan season.
Former Reds goalkeeper Brad Jones revealed that nan stunt instantly backfired.
'When he did it, arsenic we were sitting and he was talking, he put nan envelopes up and you could really spot consecutive done them, conscionable nan measurement that nan ray caught them.' He told nan Liverpool Echo successful 2022.
'I conscionable retrieve sitting location thinking, "I don't deliberation there's thing successful those envelopes!'
Arteta was mocked by fans connected societal media for nan elaborate maneuver to thatch his broadside a lesson
Brendan Rodgers infamously told his players that he had taken down nan names of nan stars he thought would fto nan squad down successful nan upcoming season
Arsenal put connected a show successful dismantling Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen connected Wednesday night
Ex-Manchester United subordinate Owen Hargreaves said legendary erstwhile Red Devils head Sir Alex Ferguson had pulled nan aforesaid instrumentality successful pre-season successful 2007 - but dissimilar erstwhile Rodgers did it later, insisted it had a affirmative effect connected nan players.
Arteta will dream that his instrumentality will lead to nan benignant of results Ferguson saw and connected the grounds of their astir caller pre-season clash, Gunners fans could beryllium successful shop for a thrillin season.
Arsenal made ray activity of Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen astatine nan Emirates connected Wednesday evening. Following that 4-1 win, they subordinate Lyon connected Sunday earlier nan commencement of nan Premier League run against Wolves connected August 17.
