House special is this moment for you.

I'm extremely happy and excited and proud and to come back home.

It's absolutely unknown or two for me to get given the opportunity to come back on and I don't know, I can't wait to start.

It's been emotional when you said goodbye last time there were tears on the pitch, a golden your final game.

Now you're back, seeing familiar faces, lots of emotions for you, it is has been tough to live environment that I was working with Andre same time.

I'm so excited to come here.

I know a lot of people in the organization.

I started to get a baby.

No feedback the last few days, how excited people were deciding to be on.

Then I'm a levee shocked.

With all the changes and improvement that the club has made in the training ground, how would you describe the club you've come back to, and how do you feel about where it is right now?

What?

I think we're in a difficult moment in terms of results and in terms off what's happening around the environment.

Obviously, I need time to start is sniffing around the reasons why I have an idea.

I clear idea what's happening, but I want to start working with them.

I want to start looking at their eyes.

I want to start to feel the environment on the culture around.

The club was going on on Dhe and I start to make a small adjustment to try to get quick improvements.

You've been a player, a captain, a first team coach.

Why is now the right time to make that final step?

Well, I think I was very careful in the last year of my career and to respect really how I was feeling on toward the last one or two years at the club.

I started to feel the necessity to stand during my coaching badges to start to coach the young players here at the economy on Dhe.

See how I was feeling and that feeling how was progressing and I decided to stop my career and I stopped playing intense.

We're going to Ah different place on.

I got the biggest challenge obviously toe work with Pepper and on Manchester City, so they gave me an incredible opportunity.

I embrace it.

I've been working in the most challenging environment that you can imagine with the expectations every three days.

So I've learned a lot of things in the process.

You know, I've seen a lot of things that work and they don't work on Dhe.

And I know how winning culture should look like, which is for me, the most important thing skeptics will say on Mikael has never been a head coach.

He hasn't got much experience.

What do you say to that?

I won't convince the players that I have experience.

You know, I will convince the players that I know sets and things we have to do that are no negotiables that will bring to sex and things will happen when we do those little things.

You know, I will commit into that and the rest will come to experience.

It will be one day training to this running one game, 51 year he will come up, but at the moment, the only thing I can convince them that I have experience on this job.

Having said that, Pet says about you, he behaves like a manager already.

What does he mean by that?

Because he's Bean, allowing me more and more space over the years with him on Dhe, he's giving an incredible environment and freedom to work and to express myself the way I want it on.

Then we generated an incredible chemistry between the both of us that's so powerful to convince place on this stuff while we wanted to.

You've learned from two of the greatest managers off the modern era.

Pep, of course.

Arson.

Venga.

Previously you'll have your own ideas, but what would you like to take from them?

Borrow from them?

I don't know.

They are completely different.

Both managers festival arson.

The reason why I'm here today because he decided to sign me as a player and he decided to make me captain of this club on Give me the opportunity and on on all the resources I needed to know what I wanted to the club on dhe with Pep.

I admire him as a player on my team as a coach, and I were with him, so I've got a really good mixture of both of them, But I want to win me, you know, on a daily basis, things I want the one Toby will pretend to be someone else.

It has to be me.

Has to be naturally has has to come from inside.

If that's the case, they played well.

Trust me and I will convince them what we have to them.

Five years ago, you had a good idea what your philosophy was, what Mikel Arteta team would look like.

That's five years ago.

Has your philosophy changed?

As football has changed, I started to trick it and football is evolving so much every day that you have to be a ball being your ideas, you know?

But there are some things that have to have a blueprints.

You know, on DDE we have to have passion.

We have to be dominant.

We have to be aggressive.

You know, we have to play in the opponent's territory as much as we want.

I want the boat.

I want to attack them as much as opposed to what I went to prevent them.

It's like give me as much as possible, but as well, I think we have to create the right culture around the club.

You know that that's what you're gonna make a good living out of the players create an environment where everybody respects each other.

Ah, humility and the people has to be accountable for what we want to achieve.

You know, that's a live the basic and after we can grow from there and then we can create the identity that I have in my head for this football club.

But we have to start somewhere trying to well that up.

How important is it to be faithful and true to that philosophy and not waiver?

It's is what I know and what I believed him.

So if I have to tell them what to do, I really have to understand it first and be able to express it and make the process for them to simplify as much as possible in the process so they can execute it and then we can review whatever it is.

But the message has to be very clear and I'm convinced and do any one way.

We went up with things very difficult for the opponents in modern football.

Last will have a reputation for playing attacking fluent football.

It's Wyness fans all over the world.

Are you concerned that identity has slipped?

Unfortunately, yes, that's my does my feeling that that we have to recover, but we have to make little a judgment.

And now they're timing for training is not, is not a lot, you know, So be surely the place.

Have to understand the idea that I want to bring to them on a slowly will see some some changes and where we want to head on because the direction is gonna be very clear and it's not gonna be negotiable, you know?

And we need the place to be on board with the right attitude with around passion and commitment.

Andi, step by step, we will be improving and reaching to find the right identity for us.

Another part.

That identity is to bring through young players you saw in your time as a player.

How important is it for you to keep that work going on?

I've got a lot of research and we are very lucky because we have some really talented young players here.

Arvis broken two pair as well a lot.

We still hold on incredible relationship on Dhe.

He's made some changes there and you can see the product that we are able to bring to the fest team.

So I'm really excited.

I love working with him playing.

I love given the opportunity they already they are right on.

They are willing to let you know and get exposed.

So with me is absolutely in your plane days.

Miquel.

There's a change in the psychological side of being a play.

And then it captain on the coaching side, going from first team, coached a head coach.

How does that change your relationship with players?

I think every relationship with every player is completely different, you know?

And I always said that you were like a harsh virgin.

I need to understand the feelings and need to scratch their on, understand how they feel.

If I'm able to do that on, they feel that they can trust me.

I will understand their decisions and their behaviour is much better.

And then the communication will improve.

And if that improves, that was gonna happen impacting performance that in the piece 100%.

So I have to create that environment for them probably has to be a distance.

He has to be a respect and they have to accept the decision that I'm gonna make.

But at the same time, they have to feel that they are protected and they have the right environment to express themselves with me.

How do you learn in your coaching career?

If a player has what it takes, how much time does it take you to figure that out?

They're all different cases.

They come from different backgrounds, different culture, different educations, you know, with some of them.

It's interesting if you look at their eyes and you get a click.

We thought this you have to spend time to be a lot of relationship.

You know, we would see short term challenges.

Of course.

What are they?

Because we're only coming up to the halfway point of the season.

What's the immediate challenge?

Win when it's a win football games, you know, forward again.

When you win the confidence straight away and races, everybody stands to get on board.

And then, obviously I wouldn't just I give them key messages on on things that I expect from him on.

We will start very simple, with some of the things that I will be asking them to do everybody and then we will start to go into detail.

But they need direction, They need a structure and I have to give them the chills I have to tell him before was gonna happen.

Then he has to happen when it happens.

The tools that I given them before I have to be there wants to resolve the situation that they face, that if I do that, they were gonna believe me and even a follow me and the fans will be watching very, very closely.

Of course, they've been frustrated for some time now.

What's your message to them?

That, please, that we need them so much, you know?

And I was in the bench next to it the other day on Dhe, and I felt, But you know, when you see the disappointment and the faces in the crowds and I understand, you know, we have to be the ones that were able to transmit that our idea is reaching to them to engage them because we need them.

We have.

We have to connect those powerful cables together to become what this club decides to come.

You know, without them, we cannot do it because at the end of the day, we want we play football to enjoy the funds, you know, and they make a lot of sacrifices to be ableto watches and they suffer and we have to understand is our responsibility.

So we have to engage them.

So if they give us a little bit, we give them more and then it will be a consequence, one of the other.

But we need them big time.

You once said that when the crowd get going of the Emirates, I think we're unstoppable because incredible, this stadium.

And when I was here, I had an impression.

When you just leave this football club and you are in the opponent's bus and you're driving and you looked at a stadium and then you get into the crowd, you say Wow, this place.

The opponent have to have fear to come to the image.

But as we have toe again, create fear on the opponent doesn't big advantage.