Like their Premier League counterparts Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal granted Amazon permission to capture everything behind the scenes for a whole season in their docuseries ‘All or Nothing’.
Having spoken to Martin Odegaard, Emile Smith Rowe and Cedric Soares, the experience seems like it was a good one, but I get the impression they don’t want to do this sort of thing again.
Cedric admitted it was strange at first, but he got used to it pretty quickly.
“It was definitely something different, especially in the beginning when you are not used to it so you are a bit aware in the beginning but I think during the time and during the season you end up forgetting about those cameras,” the 30-year-old defender said.
“I think it just became normal again and in the end, it was a good experience I think because I’m very curious about what is coming.
“I think it is something good for the club and also to learn from it. I look forward to watching it… I am very curious to watch it all.”
Odegaard said: “Sometimes you were not too happy with the cameras and I am not the biggest fan of the cameras and the attention.
“Sometimes you don’t like it too much but they did it in a very good way, there were cameras on the wall so you didn’t think too much about it.
“Maybe a little bit in the beginning but after a while it was natural and when you got used to it it was completely fine. I felt like we could be ourselves.”
Mental health was a huge talking point and something that is emphasised throughout the Amazon show. Smith Rowe explained how he opened up to one of Mikel Arteta’s coaches before his own parents, and while Cedric admits there is a long way to go in this regard, all three players do believe the club are doing a lot to ensure the squad is in a good place mentally.
People on social media tend to forget that footballers are human and not robots, despite how they come across in some interviews due to the jobsworth PR folk who don’t want you to say anything more than ‘I’m very happy to be here’ or ‘Getting the three points is the most important thing at the end of the day’. (No offence to the PR folk, they’re just doing their job).
One of the first scenes was Benjamin White describing an encounter with someone online. ‘£50million? You’re s**t,’ he says.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and White probably doesn’t care what people think of him. He is a £50m footballer with a strong…
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