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When The Athletic revealed last month that Mikel Arteta hired professional pickpockets to pinch valuables from his Arsenal players at a team dinner last season, there were plenty of people wishing they had been in the room to witness the reaction.
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Kevin Balvers, the club’s head of methodology for three years before moving to current Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven this summer, could do one better than that.
“I was in the control room of the camera system,” Balvers laughs.
“It was before the Liverpool game (Arsenal’s 3-1 home win in February) and the message to the players was that you always have
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