Manchester United legend, Gary Neville has come out to say that Arsenal’s progress in the Champions League shielded Arteta from criticism over their bad domestic form. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he was happy to hear Arteta himself say the team has gone backwards in the Premier League, and it is clear that their UCL run distracted everyone from that fact.
Neville added that Arsenal signing only one striker in seven seasons is ridiculous for a football club.
His words, “We thought those days were gone where you can have this kind of patience being afforded to you.
I think it’s a good thing, that for five years to not win a trophy, ordinarily there would be a manager under pressure. That’s significant in the sense that you think there is progression. I’m glad that on Friday in his press conference he said ‘we’ve gone backwards in the Premier League’, because they’ve tickled our backs a little bit for the last month with the Champions League and it took the heat off them a little bit in how bad they’ve been in the league being 13, 14 points from where they were last season and the season before.
But they’ve left themselves woefully short up top and still haven’t got a player in midfield from deep who can receive the ball on the back foot and [Martin] Zubimendi may come to Arsenal. [Thomas] Partey’s not great at it, Declan Rice was proven in the first leg against PSG he’s great at it.
They’ve signed one striker in seven seasons as a football club. It’s ridiculous that they’ve left Mikel Arteta so short. They’ve spent £750m and bought one striker in that time. That’s not good enough.”
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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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