Today, Mikel Arteta signs a new five-year contract that will make him the highest-paid Everton player ever. This is what he has said about it: "This is the moment we have been waiting for in the last four or five years. This club has the ability to make you really feel at home... You don't want to move away and that is how I felt about Everton. I want to win things. I want to play in the Champions League and I want to make sure that when I leave this club, they are in the top four at least.”
He added, “If you want to leave a club you can – you have seen that in many cases. If I wanted to leave I would have left. But I said to the club, ‘This may be a good opportunity for you. I’m 28, you bought me really cheap and you can get a lot of money for me’. But they didn’t think about that and that made me realise how much they love and respect me here.
“The manager told me he has been in a similar situation and he also decided to stay.
“Everton have been unbelievable with me, when I was injured or had other problems, so this was the moment to step forward and say it is my time now.”
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