‘He’s like water, clean’ - Arteta on buzz around 16yo Max Dowman as Everton clash revives ‘unique moment’ of EPL

It's like water, it's clean, you know, because he's clean, because he's just come in, because he wants to create a story, because he wants to build a career. That's why everybody wants to help him and why everybody is so close to him. He has earned that with the way he is, with the way he presents himself and obviously because I think everybody sees the talent and we want to get that to the service of the team as quick as possible. First of all, he needs to understand where he is and what we're going to take him and I think that's clear and that's not going to be a straight line up hopefully yes, but normally it's not like this and he needs to be prepared for that and in order to do that but then to have those spikes up when the spikes are down you better be ready because you never know the moment that you're going to be needed and then there is no time to say no, but I like this and that goes for every player but he's in a good place his training really worked when he had to play with us on the under-21s It was exactly the same, the same with the national team. We know the player that we have and we just need to give him the right chances in the right moments. I don't know how many questions I already had on Max, quite a few. That tells the story, you know, it's an important, huge player for us, for our future. And probably he deserves more, so I accept that. Just enjoy the energy and the joy and the smiles and the light that the stadium had in that moment. It was a unique moment. the way the action developed as well we had time to see that coming you know so you build that energy and the expectation grows grows grows and it was incredible it was a beautiful moment I think we really enjoyed it and as I said many times I think that moment is going to stay at the Emirates for a long time he gets injured very early in the game which is very strange when we already handle him against Leeds in an action that he never had an issue with I don't know you look at the Barcelona PSG something that happened in the first half unprecedented so is a strength we want to pick on something we will find it but we won't know whether it is for that or not maybe we needed to load those tendons more during those three weeks because you don't load the tendons becomes a problem who knows I think he David has to play in Spain at some point on the beach with his friends in the summer but for the In the next few years, he needs to play here for us.