Declan Rice has adapted smoothly to life at Arsenal, and his recent standout performance against Manchester United was particularly noteworthy.
While he scored the winning goal late in the game, his overall performance resembled the high standard he had consistently maintained during his time at West Ham.
Much of Rice's successful transition can be credited to Mikel Arteta's coaching style. The player recently shared an amusing anecdote on the Tubes and Ange Golf Life channel, recounting his first day at Arsenal.
He mentioned that Arteta had playfully approached him outside the medical room and asked him to wear a "newbie" sticker on his chest as a welcoming gesture.
“I was a bit nervous. The first day I was down there on the Sunday, the lads weren’t in but I come out of the physio room and Arteta, just like little things he does, he put like a sticker on me saying ‘hello I’m the new person’. He just walked in and put it on my chest. All the 18s and 21s in the canteen and I’m walking through trying to hide my chest. Just little things like that,” Rice said, via TBR Football.
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