Mikel Arteta is the name that could sneak in in the confusion that seems to reign right now within the Barça leadership regarding who will be the new coach of the first team from next June.
Arteta is not a new name. In fact, he was already surveyed by the candidacy of Joan Laporta shortly before he was raised as the new Barça president. Within the noble zone of the Camp Nou, there is some ‘heavyweight’ who proposed the name of Mikel, although he is not the first on the ‘pole’ for the position.
In its favor it has several things: The first, to be a coach with ‘Barça DNA’, something essential to be registered with gold letters as a candidate for the culé bench. Arteta arrived at the Barça quarry at the age of 15. He left very young -at 18- to PSG, but his career as a player and, later, as a coach has paralleled the unmistakable ‘Barça style’.
As a footballer, represented a game that he likes in ‘Can Barça‘, despite the fact that, due to circumstances, he never returned. And as a coach, he has trained for three and a half years -July 2016 to December 2019- alongside a ‘pure Barça DNA’, such as Pep Guardiola.
However, the sources consulted by MARCA suggest that the Basque coach has his future, at 90%, at Arsenal. If Barça chose him, Mikel would be delighted, but his thought, nowadays, is Arsenal. In fact, this week there will be news regarding his continuity as head of a ‘gunner’ ship that yesterday had the bad news of not finally entering Europe, although the club’s ownership values the many problems that Arteta has inherited.
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