Arteta interview

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"They [the fans] are really passionate and loyal to the club, as we are. I think we've got probably the best fans in the league."


Oh Mikel. Just when I thought I couldn't love you more.
 


Nasty "preparing the ground" background drip coming out now as well this morning in the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...el-Arteta-should-James-Milner-deal-fails.html

It was thought that City’s interest in Arteta, earlier this summer, had cooled but Everton fear that the Milner stalemate has changed all that. Though there has been no contact between Everton and City over the Spanish playmaker, who has returned from the pre-season tour of Australia to marry in his homeland, the Goodison Park hierarchy believe Arteta's head may be turned by the prospect of joining countryman David Silva at the world's richest club. Silva on Wednesday passed his medical at City.
Everton will not consider selling the player simply for profit or to allow manager David Moyes the chance to strengthen his own squad. However, the Scot's encounter with the new-found wealth of City last summer has forced him to acknowledge the futility of keeping an unsettled player at Goodison.
Relations between Everton and City soured during the protracted saga of Joleon Lescott's £24 million move up the M62, with the player eventually forcing his club's hand by confessing his desire to leave. It is likely Arteta would have to do the same to be granted a move away.
Arsenal have also been linked with Arteta in the past, but City's wealth puts them in pole position to sign the 28 year-old should he tell Everton that he wishes to follow in Lescott's footsteps.
Everton would only consider selling the midfielder should they receive a premium fee for a player who missed much of 2009 with a knee ligament injury.
 

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