KNOWS IT’S DIFFERENT BALL GAME FOR HIM

heights they hit, making them one of the most compelling sides the game has seen.

His achievements there set him on a course that took him to the biggest and richest club in Germany, Bayern Munich, and then on to Manchester City, the wealthiest side in the wealthiest division in the game.

Arteta is hardly at the other end of the spectrum — Arsenal are, after all, a wealthy club too.

But they don’t have anything like the resources City have and nor did Arteta inherit a dressing room with a winning ethos already instilled, as his old mate has enjoyed at each of his clubs.

Arteta, who spent three-anda-half years as Guardiola’s assistant at the Etihad, said:

“You cannot compare his situation to the situation at the moment with us.

“They are very, very different. You can share some values, some ideas and the way we were raised and educated in football. You need some time, sometimes you need a lot of investment, and sometimes there is a group of players that can already provide that.”

Arteta is trying to bring through youngsters such as Emile Smith Rowe and Bukayo Saka, and, having signed him

on loan from

Real Madrid, Norwegian Martin Odegaard (left).

Arteta added: “We have Martin for a few months and first of all we have to maximise this time with him to try to bring to the team all the qualities he has.

“Martin is a leader. On the pitch he shows a lot of character, a lot of intelligence.”

DUNDEE UNITED boss Micky Mellon says Steven Gerrard is under a unique kind of pressure at Rangers.

And Mellon’s side face the runaway SPL leaders today, likening it to a 20-handicap golfer taking on a scratch player.

Many predict that Ibrox boss Gerrard is already walking on the fairway to his heaven – taking over at Liverpool after being dubbed the natural successor to Reds chief

Jurgen Klopp. “For Steven Gerrard it’s been a different challenge – one completely separate from the rest of us except for Neil Lennon at Celtic,” said Mellon (below).

“Rangers and Celtic are the biggest clubs in Scotland by a country mile in everything – budget, wages, the actual size of the clubs.

“It’s some pressure believe me – and you’ve got to deliver. There’s no leeway or bend from either set of fans. In fact the whole of Scotland because everyone knows about the financial differences between the Old Firm clubs and the rest.

“Both managers are judged with that knowledge and there is no hiding place. Gerrard has so far delivered and appears to have handled everything that has gone