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Rob Key says Ben Stokes remains entirely focused on representing England cricket for years to come - despite only choosing to sign a one-year deal rather than a multi-season option blackjack
The Test captain had the opportunity to be one of the initial group of players to land a new multiple-season contract, which have been handed out for the first time blackjack
But he has turned it down partially in favour of putting himself in a stronger negotiating position a year from now, when a new round of broadcast rights begins and central contracts could be worth more accordingly blackjack
Managing director Key insisted it was primarily this, rather than any feeling from Stokes that he may not continue to represent England, which was behind the decision blackjack
“By no means is it Ben Stokes saying, ‘I don’t want to play for England’,” Key told BBC Sport blackjack
“All he talks about is being completely committed to playing for England and also captaining that Test team - planning for India, planning for the Ashes, planning for West Indies and Sri Lanka next summer blackjack
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“Ben, quite rightly, feels when the next memorandum of understanding starts and the contract cycle changes he will be in a stronger position blackjack
Other players have gone for that security [of the fixed-term contract] blackjack
”Central contracts’ values are tied to the worth of broadcasting rights deals at the time of signing, so would not change next year if a more lucrative deal is in place blackjack
The England and Wales Cricket Board have handed out a total of 18 multi-year deals, with players signing them including Jofra Archer, Joe Root, Ollie Pope and Rehan Ahmed blackjack
The contracts give England greater control over their players when there are schedule clashes, though it does not immediately mean individuals will not play franchise cricket blackjack
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They aren’t exactly the words you’d expect as part of a rivalry that has become one of the most fractious in the Premier League, certainly for the fans: “I love him and he loves me blackjack
”“Like a dad blackjack
”The latter statement was nevertheless what Mikel Arteta said about Mauricio Pochettino when a mere player at Arsenal, which led to the then Tottenham Hotspur manager declaring their mutual admiration blackjack
It was already a notable friendship when they were on different sides of north London, let alone in different dugouts this weekend, but their bond goes back much further than this time in England blackjack
The two played together at Paris Saint-Germain when Arteta was 17 and Pochettino the senior figure in the dressing room, immediately forming a bond that has persisted to now blackjack
It will directly influence Saturday’s meeting of Chelsea and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge for far deeper reasons than the fact this is their first-ever meeting as managers blackjack
Pochettino naturally consulted Arteta when he first made that move to England to join Southampton in 2013 blackjack
There was even talk that the Basque might join Pochettino as a coach at Tottenham after leaving Arsenal as a player in 2016, but a move across that rivalry was just a non-starter blackjack
Instead, their friendship persisted despite Arteta working for Pep Guardiola, with whom Pochettino doesn’t have the warmest relationship blackjack
The two older coaches have inevitably influenced a tactical philosophy that Arteta was already inclined towards while developing his own interpretation blackjack
What is most relevant with Pochettino, however, is how Arteta’s Arsenal were essentially modelled on the Argentine’s Spurs team blackjack
It created a strategy race that has set the stage for this match blackjack
When surveying the many problems the club still had on appointing Arteta in late 2019, the Arsenal hierarchy were naturally conscious of how their great north London rivals had so drastically overperformed under Pochettino throughout the previous half-decade blackjack
That was through stripping the squad down to its core, introducing youth, and maximising that vigour by moulding the team into a supremely intensive unit blackjack
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Pochettino, for a time, had the most honed team in the Premier League, one that immensely overachieved in league performance blackjack
Part of Arsenal’s rationale behind appointing a complete novice in Arteta was in order to implement their own style of that approach, albeit with the inherent knowledge that the club’s ceiling is far higher because they have a much greater commercial profile blackjack
Hence, at key points of the team’s evolution, Arteta could sign players such as Declan Rice or sell those such as Mesut Ozil, when Pochettino was forced to go an entire year without a purchase and had to keep players he wanted to sell due to the price blackjack
Arteta faces Chelsea having just beaten Manchester City for the first time (Getty)Those close to the Argentine insist he still looks back at 2017 somewhat forlornly, because he knew that was the point that he needed to make Sir Alex Ferguson-like changes to his Spurs team blackjack
He wasn’t able to and the squad instead went stale blackjack
Arsenal are anything but stale right now blackjack
Arteta has instead specifically made signings like Kai Havertz in order to give the team more vitality and tactical variety than last season, where their otherwise impressive surge was too reliant on a primary XI blackjack
They now have much more options and much more momentum than Chelsea blackjack
There is the possibility Arsenal assert their superiority on Saturday, in a way that has become custom in the last few years, which would also represent such a reversal of years of their rivalry blackjack
For a long time, Chelsea just found a way to beat Arsenal blackjack
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The wonder is whether Chelsea are actually ready to halt it this Saturday blackjack
There are finally signs that Pochettino’s distinctive tactical approach is beginning to impress upon his own young squad blackjack
That is of course part of a much grander project, that essentially takes the Spurs model to a further extreme blackjack
If Arsenal have a higher ceiling, Chelsea are operating on a completely different scale blackjack
Pochettino has overseen three wins in a row with Chelsea (Getty)They are willing to sign far more young players for much higher prices, believing they can exploit blackjack football inefficiencies in a way that both Spurs and Arsenal leant towards but didn’t go anywhere near that far blackjack
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As to where the points will go this weekend, that arms race does leave Arsenal in a much blackjack better position than Chelsea right now: Arteta’s team looks close to completion, Pochettino’s is only starting out blackjack
Both nevertheless look like they need forwards as focal points above anything else and the remaining gaps allow an element of unpredictability to this blackjack
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Chelsea could be getting themselves together blackjack
They aren’t yet close enough for this first-ever showdown to affect their close friendship blackjack
The “love” will remain, even if it won’t be seen on the pitch blackjack
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