{"id":9106,"date":"2023-12-28T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-hes-really-humble-arteta-names-arsenal-star-who-made-him-mad\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:00:42","slug":"epl-hes-really-humble-arteta-names-arsenal-star-who-made-him-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-hes-really-humble-arteta-names-arsenal-star-who-made-him-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: He\u2019s really humble \u2013 Arteta names Arsenal star who made him \u2018mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has hailed Declan Rice and admitted he was \u2018mad to sign\u2019 the midfielder after he impressed against the Gunners last season.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal signed Rice from West Ham United for \u00a3105 million last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Rice is expected to face his former club West Ham when Arsenal host the Hammers in a Premier League tie on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they put the price-tag you have to carry that and it is not easy,\u201d Arteta said at his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a really humble guy and the way that he wants to learn and take positive criticism is really powerful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt it when I played against him, that is why I was mad to sign him. You get a feeling about players and I wanted him to be part of our team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has shown that he has an eye for goals when he is in the opponent\u2019s box he is a real threat. That is something that can be developed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis leadership skills, the way that he will naturally grow in the team and club in the years to come, there is much more from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: He\u2019s really humble \u2013 Arteta names Arsenal star who made him \u2018mad\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has hailed Declan Rice and admitted he was \u2018mad to sign\u2019 the midfielder after he impressed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,4131,194,15,160],"tags":[237,554,156,180,201],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-arteta","category-epl","category-news","category-sport","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-epl","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}