Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta released a sincere evaluation of his team and acknowledged that Gunners had to sign the best players on the summer transmission market if they were to end their long -term waiting for silver.
Arteta, who spoke before their last Premier League season against the displaced Southampton, admitted that the group lacks “firepower” and needs reinforcements about the elite level to gain the future races of the title.
“If you want to win the main trophies, you have to be the best on the market, right?” Arteta said at her pre -press conference. “The teams that win are always the best players.”
Arsenal is ready to complete the Runners in the Premier League, for the newly crowned Liverpool champions, and was eliminated in the semifinals of the Champions League of Paris Saint-Germain. It denotes the fifth straight season without a trophy for the North London club, despite the apparent progress in recent years.
The key attackers Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus suffered injuries, and Arsenal lacked clinical factors of attackers that hampered their offer to honor this deadline. Artta gave a clear message: Arsenal needs goals and players who can deliver them consistently.
“We need to endanger the goal and need firepower,” he said. “Understanding that the context may change tomorrow, we cannot rely solely on the numbers we had before. We have to add goals, creativity and we have to add numbers and it will be in different positions.”
The shooters were associated with several important attackers, including Rodrygo Real Madrid, Newcastle Alexander Isak and Sports Lisbon Viktor Gykeres when they are preparing for a hard -to -investment in the summer window.
While Artta refrained the names of specific goals, he was proud of the transformation of the club under his possession. “There is pride because we brought the club to a position that people say next season:” You have to win the main trophy. “And that means everyone believes and that we are an elite team in this country and Europe.
Artta also revealed that she wanted to keep an experienced midfielder Thomas Partey, whose contract would expire at the end of the season. Ghanaian had a campaign without injury and was a consistent artist and drew interest in his former club Atltico Madrid.
“As for Thomas, consistency, it was his best season,” Arteta said. “The way he played, he played and his availability was exceptional. He is a really important player for us.”
Artta extended congratulations on Arsenal’s bitter opponents Tottenham Hotspur, who ended his 17 -year -old trophy drought By defeating Manchester United 1-0 in the European League final on Wednesday evening in Bilbau.
“They are champions, and when you get to it, you have to do a lot of things right,” he said. “I think they went through the season again with a lot of obstacles and difficulties and eventually helped them handle a beautiful moment.”
Published:
Saurabh Kumar
Published on:
May 22, 2025
