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.
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.
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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.
Arteta spent the final five years of his playing career at Arsenal and was appointed club captain in 2014 before hanging up his boots and joining Guardiola's coaching staff at the Etihad.
The ex-Everton midfielder was heavily linked with the job when Arsene Wenger left last year, before the club turned to former Sevilla and Paris Saint-Germain chief Unai Emery.
Now 18 months on, Arteta takes over from Emery, who struggled during his tenure and was sacked last month.
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