A visitor to Mikel Arteta's apartment during his time working within Pep Guardiola's backroom staff at Manchester City described the scene as a "football laboratory." Arteta's wife and children were overseas at the time and so the Spaniard was alone in a modest, but modern, abode -- except it didn't look like a home at all.
"The walls were covered in tactical charts and statistical data," the visitor, a former employee of another Premier League club, told ESPN. "There were several television screens showing different matches simultaneously and papers everywhere. I've never seen anything like it.