Arteta on todays news of Tim Lewis leaving Arsenal (Full Presser part 2)

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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on todays news of Tim Lewis leaving Arsenal  19/09/2025  Sobha Realty Training Ground, London,UK

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00:00You've lost a lot of people when you're very close to the support network.

00:04Can you talk about the support network you still have at the club?

00:08How important that is for you as a manager going forward to have that support network?

00:13I don't want to forget anybody.

00:15So we're starting obviously from Stan and Joe.

00:19We have very fluent communication and a lot of alignment in what we want to achieve

00:24and a lot of support from them.

00:26And then with Ailey, especially with Rich, with Andrea for sure,

00:31probably the person that I talk the most with, with James, with the other James,

00:38and after with everybody that is linking our operation, which is a lot of people.

00:43So that's not an issue at all.

00:45I think we all know what we want to do.

00:47It is very clear direction from ownership how we want to do it.

00:51We will discover now with the new members of the boards as well,

00:54how can they make us better and what ideas that they are bringing as well.

00:58We are very open to that.

01:00It is a big opportunity as well for us to evolve.

01:03So let's take the opportunity.

01:05And with Tim gone, do you now have more of a direct communication with Stan and Josh?

01:10Or is it just business as usual?

01:12Or is there a change in how you now communicate with the owners?

01:15Well, I think they will dictate that.

01:17I think it's so in meaning it was this morning.

01:19So we'll have that conversation and they will guide us on how they want to operate

01:24and how they want things to run from now on.

01:27So that's it.

01:28Just lastly, on your career, it was quite a deep cut.

01:32Did he need stitches?

01:33I think so.

01:35I think he did stitches at the end, yeah.

01:37Have you trained today wearing one of the headbands again?

01:40Or is he actually OK?

01:41No headbands.

01:42Today he didn't have to head a ball, so no headbands.

01:46Isan?

01:47Hi, Miguel.

01:48When you first started signing on Madweke, there was a lot of reaction from the fan base

01:52as to whether it was the right signing or not.

01:54A lot of noise, obviously, recently, as we've seen, has been tremendous, very direct,

01:59and doesn't push for your club.

02:01In the past, when you signed the likes of Kai Havertz, Marino, Raya,

02:05at the time, criticism, and then they've obviously come good.

02:08What was it about Madweke in particular that you thought,

02:11this guy's actually going to be a real good sign despite the noise,

02:15and how did you kind of get that feeling about playing before they joined the club?

02:19Well, obviously, I watched him a lot.

02:21I played against him.

02:22I had a real sense of the feelings that I was getting when I was playing against him,

02:27and then just understanding the qualities that we have in and around the team,

02:32the connection that we can develop with the qualities that he would bring,

02:36and I was very convinced.

02:37I think we were all at the club very convinced that he could do that,

02:40but it's understandable.

02:42At the end, everybody has his own opinion about things.

02:44You have to respect that, and hopefully he keeps doing what he's doing

02:49because so far it's been really good.

02:51There's been reports in the past in terms of Tim Lewis

02:53as to the impact he's had on you in terms of impacts with contracts, etc.

02:57With Tim, what were the key things that you remember of him

03:01in terms of yourself and the impact he had

03:03and the positive things he did with you in particular?

03:07I think with some people, I think you sit down to talk about something,

03:12discuss it, and you click, and you talk the same language.

03:16It was a person that has a huge capacity to make decisions,

03:21to be very open to understand it, very analytical.

03:24His background is a lawyer, so super efficient, and once he understands it

03:30and has clarity on that, I think he's very good at delivering the message

03:34and making things happen.

03:36That's why I enjoy working with him.

03:38Just on your record against City, it's five games unbeaten against them.

03:43Do you think that your team now has a belief when you go out to play against them

03:49that you're not going to get a result?

03:51You know how to get a result against them?

03:53Yes, obviously winning those matches creates that conviction

03:57that you can go and win the game and not against them,

04:00against any opposition.

04:01That's the feeling that I have now with the team and the players individually

04:05that we go to Sunday and we are there to win the game.

04:08That's it.

04:09Just wondering about your record of the Champions League games last season.

04:13It was quite mixed.

04:14There was quite a lot of draws of you playing in the Champions League midweek.

04:18Is that something you're looking to address this year,

04:20obviously with a much bigger sport now?

04:22Yeah, and especially at home as well.

04:24That's something we want to improve.

04:26We talk about our home records and how important it's going to be

04:29to give the best possible chance to ourselves

04:31to be where we want to be at the end of the season.

04:33So every time we play at home, we know what we have to do.

04:36But specifically after a Champions League game,

04:39even if you're home or away,

04:41just backing up with a second game every three days is quite different.

04:45Yeah, and then the next one, and then the next one.

04:47So we will try to do better.

04:49You talked about Scotland, Ireland,

04:54and obviously Gabriel as a senior defender, senior centre-back.

04:58How pleased have you been with the physical aspect of his performance

05:02against him?

05:03Probably the biggest man, literally.

05:10Well, he's got many qualities.

05:13One of them is that he can get up to anybody in the world

05:16and he's someone that really enjoys, you know.

05:19The defensive part, the contact, the physicality.

05:22And when the game has to get to that part, he enjoys it.

05:26And that's a big quality to have.

05:28And it's very needed with someone, Ireland as well,

05:31that is so physical.

05:32You need to have those qualities to be efficient.

05:35It's the sort of thing that fans love as well.

05:36It's the sort of thing that fans love as well.

05:37It seems to be having a go.

05:40It's a bit like Kion, Van Nistelrooy rivalry a few years ago.

05:46I don't know.

05:47I think it's efficiency the words that you want to use with defenders.

05:51And in relation to the quality of your opponent,

05:53how you're going to adapt your qualities to resolve a lot of situations.

05:57If you don't have to have any contact and it's not needed,

06:00even better.

06:01But Gabi has both, I think.

06:03Just lastly, back to the boardroom.

06:06Obviously, we're in the age of head coaches.

06:09Just do the team.

06:11That's not your role.

06:12How much time do you spend with the back to the boardroom?

06:19Well, I think in a club like the size of this one,

06:23with the amount of things and people that we have,

06:26one thing is coaching a team or talking to individuals.

06:30And then it's managing a lot of things that are constantly

06:33surrounding the football club.

06:35And especially since I arrived, a lot of things happened here.

06:37A lot of things have to be transformed.

06:40So, as I said always, that's the reason why we do it.

06:43Because so many good people were involved in those processes

06:46to help the team to move forward quickly.

06:49And, yeah, I have a part on that for sure.

06:52Okay.

06:53Thanks very much.

06:54Yeah.

06:55Thank you, guys.

06:58Good luck.

06:59This is Sunday.

07:00Yes.

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