Arsenal is more prepared for the Premier League season but can Mikel Arteta finally deliver a title? | Football news

Mikel Arteta was asked this summer what his long -term plans for Arsenal are. “There is no long,” he replied. “It’s short, it’s now.”

For so long, the Spaniard had considered his service as an extended design. ‘Trust treat’ Was the slogan around Arsenal – especially during the tougher times. “This project Will go, ”Arteta said in early 2021.

Even last season Arteta admitted that they were in phase four of his five -phase plan To create a dynasty at the North London Club. Process, project, plan – The final goal was always a little further away from the sight.

No longer. Rival fans are pleased in their shortcomings, Arsenal fans have run out of excuses and, as above, even Arteta now recognizes a simple thing: Gunners is now in the playoffs when it comes to this era. This season may very well define how this Arsenal team remembers.

“They have to bring trophies next season,” Gary Neville said back in May. “There is no hiding place.” And with Arsenal compared to Maurico Pochettino’s spurs or Gareth Southgates England – the entertaining but trophoneless – there is no more margin for the lack of cutlery.

Arsenal has spent three years sitting as one of the two best teams in the country but has nothing to show it. It has provoked an aggressive transfer window that the club has not seen in modern times. They even went and signed a striker.

During the new sports director Andrea Berta, Arsenal made six summer signings overall before the end of its tour in Asia before the season. Since Gunners started going on regularly, Marquee camp before the season every year – which started in 2010 – most signings they have ever made before the end of their travels.

The only times that Arsenal made more than three signings before the end of a tour came three years ago – when they drove from top -four hopeful to title challenger – and summer after Arsene Wenger’s departure, which needed a reconstruction.

It can be argued that Arsenal is more prepared than ever before for a new season. The Berta has delivered the “profit now” the mentality that many thought he would give. And if these arguments are fair, it means that the excuses are now minimal for Arsenal. If not, then non -existent.

Arsenal has fixed a deep issue that has plagued them in recent seasons, including the last. Bukayo Saka was an unchanging cog on the right wing, but when he picked up an almost four months of injury last season, Gunner was the most successful deputy in that position when 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri.

The teenager was also the only similar back-up to Martin Odegaard when the Arsenal captain took up a six-week injury last September.

“Let’s be real, last year we hardly had any depth in some areas,” Declan Rice said when he was on Arsenal’s tour before the season.

“We played half the season, pretty much, with so many injuries, so that now be able to rotate and drive in different competitions with different players will be really good. That’s the key for us.”

But with another injury crisis, a Saka -Bakslag for Arsenal would now allow Noni Madueke to record to the right. Odegaard’s back -P is still Nwaneri – on paper – but a more experienced Nwaneri after last season’s rise in the first team.

Viktor Gyokere’s arrival also means that Kai hasertz can also let in to attack the midfield without losing an important cog in front, while Mikel Merino and Declan Rice are exposed to more attacking roles last season means that ODEGAARD has more coverage – regardless of whether a trait for Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze is completed.

“Now we will also have capacity to decide who is in the best condition to play this game hopefully,” added Arsenal’s Asia Tour. “For last year? No.

“Last year, Line -P was: ‘Give me five players who can end 90 minutes.’ The five?

“We have to get away with it, as these limitations have limited our ability to perform and then have the freshness we need at the end of the season.

“Hopefully this season will be very different, and we can decide what is the best team with the best players to play against this opponent. And if we want to change the game or team – regardless of context, win, draw or lose – we can change it immediately and have the players who can affect the result.”

Liverpool may have stolen all transfer window headings with one of the largest expenses Premier League Sprees of all time, Arsenal has had an outstanding summer itself.

They have not only made more signings than ever before, but they have raised what Arteta and the broader football community wanted from them. Arsenal manager wanted numbers to fill a “short” squad.

“The boss needs armament with a couple of really good forward,” Neville said. “If he gets it, they have a real chance.” Gyokeres and Madueke come in. “They need one of high quality to walk in that midfield area,” he added. Zubimendi sees a talent in that role.

Arsenal has responded to many calls this summer. The only question is whether a summer that no one else can bring a season like none of the last 20 years.