Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has challenged Bukayo Saka to inspire the Gunners to Premier League glory. He recently had his say as the winger prepares for a timely return from an Achilles injury, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he is banking on the English forward to provide the decisive impact required to overcome Manchester City in a neck-and-neck battle for the trophy.
Dismissing the importance of pre-match psychological posturing, Arteta demanded that his players prove their title credentials on the pitch.
His words, “We certainly have in Bukayo one of the most influential players we have had in the past few years. He is a player when it comes to those moments, we expect him to produce those moments to win it for us. We need him in the squad. We have him now. Hopefully we can use him in the right way.
It’s not about talking, it’s not about feeling. It’s tomorrow when you go over that line and get it done. And in this moment it’s about getting it done. That’s it. It’s not too much talking about what to do. We will create and generate the right context towards that and at the end we’ll have to do it on the pitch.”
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Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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