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Pep Guardiola Challenges Mikel Arteta To Reveal Man City Secrets He Claims to Know
Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta
2024-09-29
Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta have slipped into a fiery media row following an ill-tempered 2-2 draw in the Premier League on matchday seven.
The pair, who worked together in City’s dugout at Etihad, may be nearing breaking points in both their professional and personal relationship following recent fiery exchanges.
It all started when Arsenal nearly pulled off what would have been an upset for the ages during the Premier League matchday seven clash between the two sides.
Known for their bitter toe-to-toe challenge for the Premier League title in the past two seasons, the match bore the scars of the recent rivalry. It was dotted with heated exchanges between the players, including touchline histrionics by the two managers.
Erling Haaland fired the home side into the lead early in the second half. A few minutes later, Riccardo Calafiori nailed home an equalizer from outside the box.
Arteta’s cryptic reply which seems to question Man City in some way did not sit well with his former boss and City manager Pep Guardiola. Reacting to the cryptic comment, Guardiola challenged the 46-year-old to reveal what he knows about Manchester City.
The six-time Premier League champion went on to add if the former assistant is referring to the 115 Premier League changes, he should come forward to reveal them.
"Next time he has to be more clear about exactly what he means. We know exactly what happened here in those four years", he said.
"It could be about the 115 charges (for allegedly breaking Premier League financial rules). Maybe he has information on that, or maybe he has something (else), I don’t know?
"With the good relations I have with him, he can answer exactly what he means when he says he was here."
The ongoing row between the two managers has already stirred speculations on the relationship between the two managers. However, Arteta made it clear in his Leicester City pre-match press conference that he has nothing personal against Guardiola.
According to him, he will not let differences and sports issues between the two teams mar his relationship with the former boss whom he admires and respects a lot.
"I love him, I respect him, I admire him and I admire his team and everything that he does.
"This is sport. One thing is our profession, and another is our personal relationship.
"If our relationship was damaged because one draws and the other one wins or the number of times that they’ve beaten us, I would not talk to him anymore.
"So that’s not our relationship, especially the relationship that I consider both of us to have. In sport it will never get in my way, a personal relationship, that’s for sure."
