Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko said the quiet part out loud in his new book, 'Believe', when discussing manager Mikel Arteta's habits for trying to throw off opposing managers... or to use a phrase synonymous with the team to start the season: the dark arts.
"I've seen him tell injured players to come on the team bus and walk into the dressing room with their wash bag, to put the other manager off the scent," Zinchenko wrote in his book via The Athletic. Whether or not Arteta necessarily wanted that revealed is one thing, but it's confirmation to something supporters and rivals more or less knew.
