After his team trained at Philadelphia Union’s Subaru Park on Monday, Mikel Arteta held a pre-match press conference ahead of our game against Liverpool.
Having announced the signing of Riccardo Calafiori hours before, the Italian defender’s capture grabbed most of the limelight, but the boss also discussed the meeting with the Reds and his views on their new manager Arne Slot.
Here is everything Mikel had to say:
on getting Calafiori signed:
I’m very happy. It took a while - it was a player that we have monitored for a year. We were really short in the backline last year in terms of numbers and we demanded so much from them.