Mikel Arteta addresses managerial burnout after Jurgen Klopp decision

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has insisted that the positives of being a football manger at the highest level outweigh the "stress or the pressure" after Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp cited diminished energy levels as his reason for stepping down at the end of the season.

Arteta, 41, perhaps has the benefit of being a manager for only four years, compared to Klopp, 56, who is just over three weeks away from the 23rd anniversary of his first appointment – at Mainz in 2001. The German has never been sacked and his longest spell out of work over nearly a quarter of a century is four months between leaving Borussia Dortmund and joining Liverpool in 2015.

"We are so privileged to do what we do every day. For me, the beauty, the energy, the passion and the will to play big games like this one against Liverpool on Sunday is much bigger than the stress or the pressure," Arteta told Sky Sports.

When Klopp made his announcement last month he said: “It is that I am running out of energy. I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.”

For Arteta, an apparent spring chicken, he is easily able to fall asleep at night and seems to enjoy the early rises when new ideas and plans come to him best.

"I don't have any problems falling asleep," he said. "I sleep quite well but I wake up early. It can be 5am, 4.30 am or 5.30am, and then it is into the next one. Your brain just works into the next one and then the next one and I start to put things together.

"It's a good period where your brain works in a way where you start to formalise the right questions and I start to put some ideas together. That's the moment to get up and I start to write things and I start to think from every angle about what the best way is to prepare for the next game to give us the best chance to win it."

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