'I love Pep' - no love lost as City boss declares 'war' on Arsenal - video Dailymotion

Arteta insists his relationship with City boss Pep Guardiola and his staff remains strong despite EPL rivalry.

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00:00I love Pep. I admire him since he was 10 years old. I respect him profoundly. I am so grateful

00:08for everything that he did for me and continues to do with me and I consider him a friend.

00:14I love and I respect every member of the staff there because I worked with them for four

00:19years and when I say that I know them it means I know how hard they work. I haven't seen

00:23a human being work as hard as Pep and the coaches and everybody in that football club

00:28to be consistently winning. The reason they are there is because they maintain the hunger

00:32and this is exactly what I learned and this is what I mean. So I cannot be any more clear

00:38than that. If you want I can repeat it but if someone wants to damage a relationship

00:43that's not in my hand. But that feeling is profound, he knows it, the staff knows it

00:47because I still maintain today with them, with the board, with the ownership, with everybody

00:52and if not it wouldn't be generally and it is. But if someone wants to create something

00:56else, for me sport has to be about there is a will to win. They have it, I have it,

01:02we have it for sure because we haven't done it. But they have it even if they want it

01:08more than anybody else. We have to learn and it has to be inspiring for us and it is for

01:12me. This is what I mean that I've been there and it's remarkable and it's an incredible

01:17achievement because they have that mentality. Hopefully that's clear.