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Arsenal boss Arteta: Best dressing room since I was Barcelona junior

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta admits he hasn't seen a dressing room as he has now since he was a junior player.

Arteta says one of their great strengths this season has been team spirit.

He said, "I wouldn't like to compare it honestly. I'm extremely proud and happy to have developed the players and staff that we have together and it's a joy to work with them every day and just push every boundary and every limit.

"Enjoy the challenge that we have ahead of us. It's the most beautiful part of the season and we need to enjoy every day, every second of it. This is what we need to talk about every single day.

"Probably it is the one I was in at 15, in Barcelona and we had 13, 14, 15 year-old boys and some of them went on to be incredible players. We had to look after each other, we lived together as well, had our issues, our own hobbies and our own way of being, that was phenomenal and probably the biggest learning curve in my career."

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