MANCHESTER CITY’S fury over the way Arsenal have handled their approach for Mikel Arteta took one final turn for the worse on Friday.
The champions had accused their Premier League rivals of showing them disrespect by not keeping them in the loop on Wednesday night.
Man City only found out about Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal appointment on TVCredit: Getty
And the Gunners twisted the knife again by making the announcement of Arteta’s appointment without telling his former employees.
Normally the etiquette is for the two clubs to liaise so they can synchronise the time that the news comes out.
But Arsenal went ahead and did their own thing – leaving puzzled City officials to find out from watching the television.
The incident rounded off what has become a shambolic effort by the Gunners to appoint former midfielder Arteta.
The two legal teams of the two clubs came to an agreement over a compensation figure of around £2 million earlier on Friday.
City were left baffled at why Arsenal’s top brass said nothing about their plans to appoint Arteta when the two clubs met at the Emirates on Sunday.
That turned into anger when the managing director Vinai Venkathesham was snapped leaving the coach’s house in the early hours of Monday morning –yet still there was no call.
Arsenal have announced their new head coach is former Gunners player Mikel Arteta
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
