Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has come out to open up on the club’s summer transfer plans. He recently admitted that the Gunners need a goal threat next season, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Arsenal has definitely reached a stage where winning a trophy is needed to crown its progress in recent years, so he expects the club to invest in the best players to make it happen.
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Arteta added that firepower is clearly required up front to increase the number of goals scored next season.
His words, “I think the biggest thing is that, and using the word pride. We have brought the club into a position, into a place that next season: ‘You have to win a major trophy.’
That means that everybody believes, that we have the level, that we have shown the consistency, and we are an elite team in this country and in Europe. And if you don’t do that, then what’s going to happen? So, for me that’s the biggest statement, that Arsenal is there. If you want to win major trophies, you have to be the best in the market, no? The teams that win have the best players, always, always at this level.
What we have, what is clear as well with the amount of injuries that we had in the front line, that we need a goal threat and we need the firepower out there. Understanding that the context can change tomorrow, you know, and we cannot rely just on the numbers that we had before. And we have to add goal, we have to add creativity, we have to add numbers and that will be in different positions.”
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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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