FC Barcelona deprived PSG of a transfer that the club and the player wanted in view of the comments made by Mikel Arteta at a press conference this Monday. Indeed, the Blaugrana leaders made the decision not to let him go to Paris due to the difficulty of finding an agreement for his transfer to Paris Saint-Germain.
The PSG threw him into the deep end. In 2001, when he had just come out of The Farmhouse, Mikel Arteta was recruited through a loan by Luis Fernandezback on the bench Paris Saint–Germain. The young midfielder, then aged 18, had a blast in Ligue 1 with the capital club who he will face as Arsenal coach on Tuesday evening atEmirates Stadium as part of the second day of the regular season of the Champions League.
“It’s very special, first of all because of how I feel about this club”
At a press conference this Monday, Mikel Arteta shared his feelings heading into this match ” special ” in his eyes against his first professional club: the PSG. “It’s very special, first of all because of how I feel about this club, because of my eternal gratitude, this is the club that gave me the opportunity to play for the first time at the level professional and how much I enjoyed the experience at the club, the city, the teammates, the coach that I had and coming back to face them is obviously something very special for me.”
“I wanted to stay there, but at that time I had a contract with Barcelona and they couldn’t come to an agreement.”
The Spanish coach, trained in FC Barcelone who had loaned him to PSG, would have liked to continue his adventure at Park princes at the time. But this operation did not depend on his will.“It was incredible. Ronaldinho, Anelka, Okocha, Pochettino, Gaby Heinze, incredible players. I wanted to stay there, but at that time I had a contract with Barcelona and they couldn’t come to an agreement. I had to do something else. But I was very happy there and wanted to stay there. But at that point, I had to do something else. It’s football.” Afterwards, Arteta wrote his caption to Everton et Arsenal after his departure for Glasgow Rangers.
