FIRST DAY CONFESSION FROM ARTETA: "I TRASHED THE OFFICE"

Successful manager Mikel Arteta, who returned English Premier League giant Arsenal to those old glorious days and built a massive discipline within the team, told a highly striking and previously unheard historic truth about his first day at the club in full detail. The Spanish coach confessed the background of the message he gave to his players on that first day he took charge of the team and that crazy method he applied to create a feeling of unity in the team with a great sincerity. The experienced football man, who followed a quite different path in order to ensure solidarity, passion and the culture of working together within the team, stated that he put his players to a very tough and unusual test by putting his career at a huge risk. The successful manager, who said he messed up the room he would hold a meeting with his players for the first time deliberately and willingly, expressed those moments that shocked the football players exactly with these words: "On my first day as the new manager of Arsenal, I had completely trashed the office. I threw everything on the floor; computers, laptops, cables. Then I gathered everyone inside. I told them, 'If you want me to help you enjoy your profession, your life and that passion we all share, you have two minutes to tidy this up and get ready to work together.' This situation could have been the end of my managerial career; because if that mess stayed like that, I would not have a job anymore." This great gamble the young coach played by putting his career on the line completely achieved its purpose with the positive reaction of the players at that moment. The football players rapidly organized after this shocking and messy scene they encountered and restored the room to its old tidy state with a joint effort in only 120 seconds. This unconventional psychological test Arteta applied in order to create a common passion and fighting spirit in the team became the first milestone of that strong bond and unshakable discipline that will last for many years within Arsenal. 

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