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  • 3 years ago
Mikel Arteta talks David Raya's battle for number one, Kai Havertz, and lack of goalscoring threat.
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00:00 Nobody can sign here a piece of paper saying that this season a player won't score 20,
00:05 25 or 30 goals. We don't know. And if somebody knows, please raise your hand.
00:10 Better qualities for our game model. Very simple. And we want two players per position
00:20 that they can do that. And you saw what happened to Jurgen, it can happen to our goalkeeper,
00:27 it can happen to Courtois. So you need to be prepared. We have two excellent goalkeepers
00:32 now that fit exactly what we want in our model. So I'm very happy with that.
00:36 Is there a number one?
00:39 In any position, no. 9, 7, 11, 6 goalkeeper. No, there isn't.
00:45 He's fitting really well. I think he played a really good game against City. He had two
00:55 big chances to score and he didn't. But everything that he gave apart from that, it was excellent.
01:01 I'm really happy what he's bringing to the team. His intensity, his mobility, his threat,
01:08 his understanding of the game and spaces and the way he's fit around the boys as well.
01:13 So really, really happy with him.
01:20 He's extremely hungry and willing to learn, to improve and become the player that decides
01:28 game every three days. And that's what he has between his two eyes. He's a very, very
01:35 focused boy and he does everything to do that. The way he trains, the way he prepares himself,
01:40 the way he lives his life.
01:46 We haven't had that player, but we have managed to be extremely competitive without that player.
01:54 But obviously the goals have to be shared no more. Before, Martín Odegaard scored 15
01:59 goals. Before he used to score three and four. I'm sure we have players that can score 20
02:03 goals in a season.
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