Mikel Arteta has described in detail how he is ensuring his players make the most of their time in lockdown.
The Spaniard - who has fully recovered from his bout with coronavirus - is in regular contact with his staff and players and has been setting the group individual homework plans since the Premier League was suspended in March.
While the focus will primarily be on what has happened on the pitch during his time in charge, the past week has also presented the opportunity for Arteta to remind his players how important their off-field actions are.
"We have to try to use this time to try to get to know each other, but we have to develop professionally," he told Arsenal's official YouTube channel. "There are a few aspects that I want to improve, change or develop, and individually they are different for each other.
"So I put a plan for each player of the areas that we believe they can improve in, but as well, bringing confidence to all the things that they do right, that they have to try to maintain and keep, that they are really relevant for the team and the way we play.
"And make an emphasis as well on the way we behave, maintain our culture and make sure we are looking after the people around us that we really care about, who we are working with. And make them realise as well how lucky we are to work in the environment and the world and the context that we are all in on a daily basis."
The emphasis on how the players maintain Arsenal's culture has been propped into the spotlight in the past 72 hours in particular.
As reported by football.london on Thursday [April 16], Arteta and Hector Bellerin were key to bringing the squad closer to accepting the 12.5% pay-cuts which were initially rejected as football.london reported on Sunday [April 12].
Looking specifically at how the 38-year-old is aiming to make his players more self aware on the pitch, video analysis has been especially useful for the Gunners.
Not is it a case of simply watching games back to solely pinpoint what went wrong, but now there is time to properly examine specific scenarios from games and figure out what could have been done to prevent them or what needs to worked on allow them to replicate them more often.
"There are so many, but I like to dissect the game in different aspects. But we're going through individually with them on those three big aspects but then we are putting clips together and we parts of games for the players to analyse individually," Arteta added.
"After that, they have to find the solution, they have to tell what they did wrong or right and why this scenario happened and if they could have avoided that before it actually happened.
"A lot of times it's just about communication, but other times it's about the positioning, the body shape, the technique of how they have to defend.
"It's a lot of things and the feedback has been really good. The way they have been processing the information for the next one, has been superb and some of the young players, I've been very impressed with them."
Although being confined in their own homes may seem to give players a chance to leave their homework untouched, Arteta insisted that isn't the case.
"With the technology we know when a player has downloaded the game, when he has done the homework. They have to report everything to me, so they cannot escape!" he said with a laugh.
"To be fair, they've been really good. They've been doing their tasks in the way we ask them to do and in that sense we have no concerns."
