“You can't change your feelings towards somebody but then you have to be fair, be really demanding and it has to be a space that has to be shared and lived in in a different way between a player and a manager. It doesn't mean your feelings are different towards the person.” Mikel Arteta was talking about the transition between being Hector Bellerin’s teammate and being his coach during his pre-Benfica press conference. However, I think he hit upon something more generally with Bellerin that many Arsenal fans experience. In recent years, Hector has explicitly tried to break the mould for what we expect from a footballer with his willingness, nay, desire to talk about subjects like...
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