Former Arsenal star and under-18s coach Jack Wilshere has hailed boss Mikel Arteta.

The two ex-teammates are now in important coaching roles at the club.

Arteta, who is leading the Gunners to the top of the Premier League at present, has made a huge impression on Wilshere in recent months.

"I love his passion," he told the Evening Standard.

"I grew up with Arsene and Eddie [Howe], and they're completely different coaches.

"Arsene would say: 'That's fine, the opposition can do what they want. As long as we do what we do, we play our game, we'll win'. It's a bit of arrogance, but it never came across as arrogance with Arsene. It was confidence.

"But I have never really seen anyone like Mikel, with his intensity, passion and the way he cares."

"Mikel and his staff let us play the game how we see it, but with the same details he would use," added Wilshere.

We have to do that for the players.

"If I have a player who plays right-back on Saturday, and then Monday morning Mikel says can we have him for training, and he's doing something different to what Mikel wants, we are not helping the player in the best way."