{"id":2387,"date":"2026-04-15T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:26:46","slug":"sneijder-says-he-is-stunned-after-watching-footage-of-arsenal-training-session-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"Sneijder says he is &#8216;stunned&#8217; after watching footage of Arsenal training session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Theo Janssen, consultant pour <\/strong><em><strong>Ziggo Sports<\/strong><\/em><strong>says with astonishment that Mikel Arteta&#8217;s training methods at Arsenal would have been unthinkable when he was still playing as a midfielder. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the studio, images of a Gunners session are projected: a screen shows the faces of supporters, while deafening music punctuates the exercise. On the pitch, the players perform a rondo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI experienced this once in Qatar, in Al-Gharafa. There, we can still do that,\u201d responds Wesley Sneijder with a laugh. \u201cBut not at Arsenal. Come on man, what are we talking about? \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fco-fc-video-player\" aria-label=\"Video player\"\/><span class=\"fco-twitter-embed\" aria-label=\"Twitter embed\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Arteta trying to achieve? I don&#8217;t know. Maybe a certain detachment,\u201d Sneijder tries to explain, perplexed. Janssen then passes a harsh judgment on the Arsenal coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m sure that in my time, if this had happened with the Dutch national team, Wesley, Rafael van der Vaart and the others would have invaded the pitch laughing,\u201d says Janssen, also stunned.<\/p>\n<p>This much-discussed training session preceded the Bournemouth reception on Saturday; it did not bear fruit, the Premier League leader losing 1-2 at home. On Sunday, Arsenal faces Manchester City, their runner-up at six points and with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo Janssen, consultant pour Ziggo Sportssays with astonishment that Mikel Arteta&#8217;s training methods at Arsenal would have been unthinkable when he was still playing as a midfielder. In the studio, images of a Gunners session are projected: a screen shows the faces of supporters, while deafening music punctuates the exercise. On the pitch, the players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}