Mikel Arteta has an essential supervisory quality that can’t be taught.

That’s according to previous Arsenal gamer Carl Jenkinson, who signed up with talkSPORT Drive in the studio on Wednesday.

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Jenkinson, now 32 years of ages and a totally free representative having actually last dipped into Newcastle Jets in the Australian A-League, had fun with Arteta throughout his time with the Gunners.

Arteta and Jenkinson both signed up with Arsenal in 2011, with the previous ending up being Arsenal captain in 2014 up till his retirement in 2016.

Asked if he might see Arteta was going to be a supervisor in the future, Jenkinson stated: “Yeah, Arteta has an aura you can’t manufacture if you know what I mean.

“The way he speaks and when he walks in the room and talks, you listen. 

“Obviously he has the football knowledge to go along with it, but that’s something you can’t sort of teach.”

And according to Jenkinson, Arteta remains in great business on his list of previous colleagues who had this quality.

He continued: “He just had that aura. I haven’t met many people with that. 

“Thierry Henry would probably be the only other one I would say was similar.

“But Mikel just had that. If he spoke, you listened.”

Arteta belonged to the Gunners teams that won the FA Cup in 2014 and 2015 under Arsene Wenger.

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Jenkinson belonged to the 2014 winning side, too.

Having dealt with Pep Guardiola at Manchester City after his retirement, Arteta ended up being supervisor of Arsenal in 2019.

He’s given that led the Gunners into 2 title races, with his side completing 2nd in the Premier League in successive seasons.

Arteta likewise handled the side that won the FA Cup in 2020.

Jenkinson, on the other hand, left Arsenal in 2019, signing for Nottingham Forest after loan spells with West Ham and Birmingham, before leaving for Australia in 2022.

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