Inside The Mind Of Unai Emery: How 'nightmare' Whiteboards, Face-To-Face Rows And Exhaustive Seminars Fuel Arsenal Manager telegraph.co.uk

In these exclusive extracts from a new biography of Arsenal manager Unai Emery, those closest to him share their insights into how he works – from his obsessive attention to detail, to the intense bonds he forges with his players, and the relentlessly high standards he expects from them.

Laurent de Palmas
Played for Emery at Almeria

We called him enfermo de futbol (sick with football) because that’s what he is. He drinks football, eats football, sleeps football, and we wondered whether he didn’t f— football.