Walcott

"Mikel Arteta has built this Arsenal team from his mind and his connections with each individual talent in that team, and he's built them to be one mind," said Walcott.

Walcott doesn’t play Mitch as a slab of granite.

Dwane Walcott’s “Mitch,” as he is known to friends, has a diffidence that in Blanche’s eyes makes him seem almost gentlemanly among Stanley’s boorish friends.

Earlier this month on Match of the Day, former Arsenal winger Theo Walcott said he hoped the 27-year-old would move to the Gunners and said: "Mateta is playing with so much confidence. He's always a threat and constantly on the move. He likes to start the press and the connection he has with the players behind him is so key."

Indeed, one referred BBC Sport to the recent comments of former England winger Theo Walcott, who last month said: "I see a player who has incredible talent that's been absolutely coached out of him. I just feel he's gone away from his strengths. Everything that is Jack Grealish has been trained out of him."