{"id":1121689,"date":"2019-12-21T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1121689"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:07:36","slug":"jose-mourinho-one-reason-arsenal-picked-mikel-arteta-jokes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/jose-mourinho-one-reason-arsenal-picked-mikel-arteta-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s &#8220;only one reason&#8221; Mikel Arteta got the Arsenal job, Jose Mourinho jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jose Mourinho has jokingly suggested Mikel Arteta&#8217;s lack of defeats on his CV secured him the Arsenal job.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City assistant coach was appointed as the Gunners full-time boss and will take charge of his first game on Boxing Day at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Arteta&#8217;s moment: Five key things to know\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mikel Arteta ended a 17-year playing career at Arsenal in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>He subsequently joined Pep Guardiola&#8217;s coaching staff at Manchester City.<\/li>\n<li>Arteta was in the frame to take over at the Gunners in 2018 following Arsene Wenger&#8217;s departure&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but Arsenal chose Unai Emery, who was sacked in November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Arteta is Arsenal&#8217;s 17th permanent manager.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7459336<\/p>\n<p>Arteta ultimately succeeded compatriot Unai Emery, who became the third Premier League manager sacked this season, after Mauricio Pochettino and Javi Gracia.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got a big task ahead of him with the Gunners languishing in mid-table. Given that this is Arteta&#8217;s first managerial job, this is no easy task.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment was backed by Pep Guardiola, whom he assisted at City for the last three years, but there wasn&#8217;t a similar response from north London rivals Tottenham, who are now coached by Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho himself took charge after the season began and cheekily brought up Arteta&#8217;s lack of experience as being the major factor behind his promotion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Erling Braut Ha\u030aland: Borussia Dortmund Transfer Profile\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrKVNcLu-Cw?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only point I can find \u2013 and it is for us to laugh a little bit \u2013 is that years ago the best managers were the guys with more victories and now the best is the guy with the fewest defeats,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/12\/20\/jose-mourinho-aims-subtle-swipe-arsenal-mikel-arteta-appointment-11943354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Ancelotti has three Champions Leagues, won the league in Italy, France and England and won cups here and there \u2013 but Ancelotti has lost, I don\u2019t know, 200 matches? I have lost 150-180 \u2013 Carlo is a little bit older than me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think now it is not about how much you won, it is about the matches we didn\u2019t lose. So probably the best managers now are the managers with zero defeats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only reason I can understand is that they look through the CVs and see guys with more defeats and guys with less defeats, so guys with less defeats are given the job. I cannot find another reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho has jokingly suggested Mikel Arteta&#8217;s lack of defeats on his CV secured him the Arsenal job. The former Manchester City assistant coach was appointed as the Gunners full-time boss and will take charge of his first game on Boxing Day at Bournemouth. 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