Arsenal Must Be Ambitious With Upcoming Signings – Arteta

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has urged the board to be very ambitious in the upcoming transfer window. This comes after the Gunners experienced their Champions League final defeat against PSG, and fans have been reacting.

Conceding that PSG are clearly the best team in the world, Arteta insisted that the club must act decisively in the transfer market to bridge the gap to Europe’s elite.

The Spaniard added that the club needs a busy period of recruitment to build on their domestic success and go one step further on the continent next season.

His words, “First of all I will take a few days with my family and then we will start the process to review what we’ve done.

We [will] start to make some very important decisions if we want to reach another level. And we’re going to have to show that ambition because we are more than capable of doing it, but it’s going to demand to be very, very ambitious, very fast and very smart.

I want to congratulate PSG, Luis in particular, because they are, in my opinion, the best team in the world. What they are able to do with the ball, with individual actions, I haven’t seen it, and it’s not the plan to play in certain areas when you don’t have the ball, but they force you to do that. So, even more credit to the players.

I watch it back and it could easily be a penalty. Especially we see the penalties they gave this year in the competition. This season, the referee made a decision, and he made a different one with Cristhian Mosquera and that is an important one.

Pain, that’s it, when you are so close in the competition and you are a few penalty kicks away from winning the biggest football club competition, that’s the way which you feel. What I said to the players and the staff is that if I tell them one million times thank you it’s not going to be enough. It’s because the joy and the moments that we have lived together every single day and that’s above anything else.”

WOW.

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.