Arsenal's technical director Edu has revealed how he immediately knew that Mikel Arteta was the right man for the club, following his appointment on Friday.
The Spaniard returns to North London three years after ending his playing career with the Gunners, having spent the time in between working as Pep Guardiola's assistant at Manchester City.
Now preparing for his first managerial job, some eyebrows have been raised by Arteta's lack of experience and whether he is the right man to get the club moving in the right direction.
However, as Edu explained, he knew immediately that Arteta was the right man for the role as he made an immediate impression upon the Brazilian.
"Almost everything, to be honest," the Brazilian told Arsenal.com. "After that, we went to talk to the candidates and to understand how they feel, and how they think about the squad and the club as well.
"My first conversation with Mikel by phone was fantastic.
"To be honest we didn't talk about the squad, we talked about what I really believe is the basis, the organisation. We talked about human beings, we talked about discipline, that was our first conversation.
"Then when we met after that, in a very important meeting, he started to show us his knowledge about football, his ideas.
"His passion as well, which was brilliant.
His connection with the club as well was important for ourselves. So many, many things made us feel very, very comfortable with that decision.
"And what is nice as well is when you see all the candidates, when we started the process, all of them were very good coaches and very good people and they have a very good experience in football but we have been talking about... it's a feeling.
"Because when you’re in the meeting, they of course all have very good experience, and then let’s see because maybe we are going to say, ‘Oh, we have a connection’ and that started from the beginning with Mikel."
