@breaking_footballnews: 🚨Mikel Arteta on his heated altercation with Viktor Gyökeres after the match against Hull City: “Viktor was extremely angry, and honestly, I wasn’t expecting that reaction from him. He came straight to me after the match and questioned why I didn’t start him. He told me he doesn’t like some of my tactics and believes they don’t favour attacking players enough. He actually said, ‘Mikel, how do you expect me to score goals when your tactics don’t even favour attackers? Look at Sweden. I score goals because I’m allowed to play my football. Here, I feel restricted.’ He also told me that he feels I don’t like him because, regardless of his performances, he keeps finding himself on the bench. I told him that it was completely unfair to question my feelings towards him because of a team selection. I explained that football isn’t just about scoring goals. It’s about pressing, movement, positioning and what you contribute to the entire team. But he wasn’t interested in hearing any of that. He insisted that I wasn’t giving him the freedom he needed to perform. I eventually told him that nobody is guaranteed a starting position at Arsenal, regardless of how much we paid for them. I respect Viktor, but I will never compromise my footballing principles just to keep one player happy. We had a disagreement, yes, but these things happen in football. I would rather have a player who is desperate to play than someone who doesn’t care.”#footballnews #ARSHUL #arsenal #hull

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