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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on the strength of his squad and players desire to play as they prepare to face Crystal Palace
Sobha Realty Training Centre, London, UK
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00:00Final one for me, Mikael. A lot of people are talking about the strength of your squad.
00:04Just from the manager's perspective, does that bring with it its own challenges?
00:09Because I'm guessing it can't be easy for you to leave out players who maybe deserve to be in the team.
00:16And how accepting on the flip side do the players have to be to know,
00:20look, you're not going to play as much as maybe you deserve what you want to?
00:24Well, there are two sides to it. One, the emotional part and my attachment with the individual,
00:28with the person and I would love to play all of them.
00:32But the second one, obviously, without a question of a doubt, I'd rather have this situation,
00:37the situation we had in the last few years when at some point we were very short in numbers.
00:41So we have created a very strong environment, a really competitive and supportive environment
00:46that hopefully can challenge to be very competitive every game.
00:50That's the aim and that we want to achieve and we just all go towards that direction.
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