, but I had a duty and I wanted to reconnect my parents and my family again.“It was a disaster. It never worked in that sense. I never felt connected in any moment.”Arteta joined Everton in 2005 for £2m after a successful spell on loan from Sociedad.“Straight away, you connect with the team; you connect with the players; you connect with the staff; you connect with the supporters and it flows. And that feeling is needed,” he says.“You feel confident, you feel excited every morning to get off your bed and go to training. I loved every minute.”Shortly after his playing career ended, a 34-year-old Arteta joined Manchester City as Pep Guardiola’s assistant manager.“We had unbelievable chemistry,” he says.“The meaning on that eye contact was clear of what we had to do or what we were thinking in that moment.“It was fascinating to be part of something new.”Arteta played for Arsenal between 2011 and 2016. When he first joined, he was vocal in a quiet changing room.He says: “I started to talk and I started to get everybody connected – ‘Come on, let’s do this, guys’. I was so excited.“I’m going to do everything. I’m going to break every wall here. We have to make this happen.”He says of approaching retirement: “It was coming to a stage that I was feeling much more interested in the coaching side than the playing side.”In December 2019 Arteta became Arsenal manager.“The issue was much deeper. The issue was in our roots. It was all a mess,” he says.“We need our people. We need to convince them that you are committed and you are willing to take this club to a very different place.”Arteta planted an olive tree in front of his office, symbolising the club’s age and roots.He says: “I planted the tree and said, ‘This is my gift. Now you have to look after it. It’s a living thing. You cannot let it die.’“That tree is the same amount of years at our football club – over 130 years.“It’s going to be there every single day. You have to look at it and you are all responsible.”)|(user:Make the title 60 characthers long and SEO optimized and dont add any quotation marks, mkae it simple and understandable. )))” config=”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”]