Edu and Mikel Arteta are now best buddies, but it wasn’t always that way AFC
Jens Lehmann was forced into a good save soon after when the midfielder let loose a ripping shot while the former Barcelona B star had plenty of nice touches around the pitch.
But with transfer rumours swirling in his head with Blackburn and Atletico Madrid interested, it would have never struck Arteta that 20 years later he would be on course to lead Arsenal to a first Premier League title since that same year he faced them. And he certainly would not have believed it had someone told him he would be doing so with the man that stamped on his ankle next to him, calling the shots in the transfer market.
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