Mikel Arteta Amatriain (born 26 March 1982) is a retired Spanish professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the co-assistant coach of Manchester City, alongside fellow co-assistant Brian Kidd and manager Pep Guardiola. He then made a permanent transfer to Arsenal in 2011, and was appointed captain of the club in August 2014. Arteta won two FA Cups and two FA Community Shields with Arsenal, before his contract expired at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Title wins with Arsenal: FA Cup (2): 2013–14, 2014–15 FA Community Shield (2): 2014, 2015
Probably a demand from City. He left on good terms so no reason for it to mean anything more than simple professionalism or obligation to his new contract.
I’d imagine those things are private and don’t/shouldn’t matter to your employer especially since you were five years at that club. Unless there are coke-snorting pictures up there or something like that.
I really can’t imagine anyone at Arsenal making a problem of Ozil still having Real Madrid pictures on his instagram. Nor shouldn’t they.
Fuck knows really. I guess City are a brand and so are Arsenal not to mention we are in direct competition or maybe it was just a personal choice by Mikel to put his playing days behind him and focus on coaching. Doesn’t really bother me either way as I think shit like instagram is boring as fuck.
I’ll take this as a compliment. If I were city I’d have come out and said “sure we let arteta keep his social media up and he can include his Arsenal postings as well. We enjoy our partnership with our feeder club and look forward to having Hector Belleron here next summer.”