Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said the club are prepared to ease their injury problems during the winter transfer window. He recently revealed that the club is actively looking at signing new players in January, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the club will try to be prepared for any opportunity that arrives when the window opens, but only time will tell if any transfer will materialize eventually.
Arteta added that Villa are genuine contenders to win the EPL this season because they have been very consistent.
His words, “The window is there and I mean we are Arsenal and we have to be looking at it — ‘Okay, what do we need?’ And we have to be actively looking and then, whether we can do it or not, that’s a different story.
But our job is to always be very prepared because something can happen, so hopefully it’ll be very positive.
When you look across the other clubs, they have 24 or 25 squad players. Although we have had more injuries than expected, some of them not avoidable, we want to be better and we know how important the part of having the right availability with players is going to be this season.”
On Aston Villa, “They are meant to be there when you look at what they are doing and how consistent they have been and what Unai has done with the club.
They fully deserve that credit because they are doing it on the pitch where you have to show your level.
But every opponent that comes here, we want them to suffer, and be as dominant as we were against Brighton for the majority of the game.
We know we will have a tough match. We will watch the last game back (against Villa) and I have a few ideas on things that we have to do better.
It was quite cruel on us, the way we lost it, but we have learned from it and we can use that as motivation and hunger in the right manner.”
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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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