Alan Shearer acknowledges the significant progress Arsenal has made under Mikel Arteta but insists the Gunners’ manager must start delivering trophies soon.
Arteta inherited a challenging situation at the Emirates but has transformed the club’s culture into one focused on winning.
Having previously worked alongside Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Arteta brought valuable experience and ideas to Arsenal, which have contributed to the club’s improvement.
Although Arsenal has yet to win the Premier League, they are arguably ahead of schedule in their development as a competitive side.
Arteta is now targeting both the Premier League and possibly the Champions League this season.
Shearer notes that while Arteta may not be under intense pressure yet, that pressure will inevitably build, and he must take the next step by securing silverware.
The former striker said, as quoted by the Daily Mail:
‘But eventually he’s going to have to win something, whether that is this season or not. But that has to come at some stage, doesn’t it?
‘We all recognise how formidable Manchester City are, there’s no doubt about that, which makes it very difficult for Arsenal. But at some point he’ll need to win something and take that extra step, but their progress has been really good.’
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We have done well over the last few seasons that Arteta has been our manager. We can tell that winning trophies will happen sooner rather than later.
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Arsenal will begin the difficult journey of to win the Premier League title this season. When the Gunners face Wanderers tomorrow Saturday at the Emirates Stadium to begin the journey.
And I believe totally without any iota of doubt in my mind that, the Gunners will begin their Epl campaign this season on the front foot. With a resounding opening season day match win over the Wanderers. In a 6 nil home win match to the Arsenal.
And I will not be surprised but be assured if Arteta start my below predicted Arsenal starting XI for Wolves.
Raya:
White Saliba Gabriel Zinichenko;
………………..partey………………………;
Rice…………………………ddegaardd;
Saka……..Havertz……..trossard;
But Arteta could make a change to my predicted starts to start Martinelli and bench Trossard.
Arsenal will begin the difficult journey of to win the Premier League title this season. When the Gunners face the Wanderers tomorrow Saturday at the Emirates Stadium to begin the journey.
And I believe totally without any iota of doubt in my mind that, the Gunners will begin their Epl campaign this season on the front foot. With a resounding opening season day match win over the Wanderers. In a 6 nil home win match to the Arsenal.
And I will not be surprised but be assured if Arteta start my below predicted Arsenal starting XI for Wolves.
Raya:
White Saliba Gabriel Zinichenko;
…………..partey………………;
Rice…………….Odegaard;
Saka…….Havertz……trossard;
But Arteta could make a change to my predicted starts to start Martinelli and bench Trossard.
maybe he should focus on carabao or FA. seems EPL is a tall order
I beg to disagree zackson
Arteta needs to focus on the league as this is the most important prize and shows that he and the club mean business. Much has been made of our poor recent records in the cups and I fully understand your reasoning but the draw makes it a bit of a lottery at times.
Winning a cup competition can and does bring a feel good factor, however, that can’t necessarily translate into winning the league as has been shown over a number of years
Hmmm. If you look at the opponents that Arsenal have faced when they’ve been knocked out of domestic cups, there’s a fair number of smaller/weaker teams in there. It’s not as though Arsenal has gone out to top quality opposition on a regular basis, they haven’t. And in any case, Arsenal is top quality opposition or at least should be most of the time anyway.
One reason is that Arteta has fielded weaker sides on several occasions is obviously to protect key players for PL games as that’s clearly been his overriding priority. But a leading club should have the squad depth and talent to compete more effectively (at least) in different competitions. All Arteta’s eggs almost always seem to be in the PL basket.
Also, I think that winning a cup (or two) isn’t just about a “feel good factor”. It’s as much about experiencing what winning a trophy is like – getting that “winning mentality” hopefully which can help with other trophies like the PL. It’s what City clearly have in abundance and Arsenal largely lack. How many players in the Arsenal squad now have won the 2019 F A Cup with Arsenal – hardly any. Most of them just don’t know what winning is like with an Arsenal shirt on. Near misses don’t count unfortunately.
Bertie
There are always two sides to the coin
Arteta won the FACup in his first season with a vastly different team which has now been completely broken up. That was a painful process to go through but one that looks to be paying dividends over the last couple of seasons as we look like real contenders
I’m loathe to bring up the Pep factor but the fact remains that he has left most managers and clubs trailing in his wake such has been his dominance. Arteta has run him close and I think he can do that or better this season.
Until now, I’d say that our second string were nowhere near good enough for us to mount a challenge in the lesser cup and last year, when rightly imo, the club was aiming for league and CL glory, getting Liverpool in the 3rd round of the FACup was a blow.
This season really should define what Arteta is capable of doing and so too with the players
Personally, I think far too much was expected far too soon although the time has come for Arsenal to deliver
Hi Sue, I agree with your comments. I believe winning the FA cup or league cup is no less of a consolation prize than coming in 2nd in the league except there’s a shiny trophy and a photo op. A consolation is a consolation and the players know that. There is no evidence to suggest that winning one of the cups changes a club’s “mentality” and pushes them forward to winning the league title.
Winning the league and one of these cups in the same season (or across consecutive seasons) is an unusual feat for any club except MC and I believe it will always be that way in the PL. MC’s ability to win multiple trophies in the same season is the exception to the rule because it is unrealistic for any other club to have built/paid for a second team good enough to consistently get through to the final.
For good reason every club which believes it is on the threshold of winning the title rightly focuses its energies on doing so to the exclusion of everything else. Everyone (including the players) in a club knows that is the only domestic trophy that is really important because that is the one that all clubs put their Best efforts into obtaining.
“There is no evidence to suggest that winning one of the cups changes a club’s “mentality” and pushes them forward to winning the league title.” – I think there is.
A famous example – if you read the autobiographies of Alex Ferguson (and Martin Edwards, his chairman) or extracts, it’s pretty clear that winning the FA Cup in 1990 not only saved Ferguson from the sack but also put Utd on track to win the ECWC, League Cup, and then the first of their many titles wins under him. He credited that initial FA Cup win with kickstarting the chain – and we all know where that led.
There’s nothing wrong with starting with domestic cups and (hopefully) working up to the title. It certainly has been done. Arteta has chosen, or circumstances have dictated, that he approached it from the other direction – going straight for the title. That’s great – as long as you win the title. If you don’t then you’ve got no title, but you’ve also got nothing else (or hardly anything in his case).
Arteta did start with a domestic trophy
Wenger had multiple FACup trophies but it didn’t add up to multiple league trophies or anything in the CL. but I get your point about Fergie but he was from a different time. Utd were a magnet until the advent of Abramovitch and Mansour which completely changed landscape
Of course, there are always two views – but not necessarily equivalent ones of course.
I certainly agree that 2024-25 is likely to be the defining season for Arteta. It’s also true that his strategy of going for the PL at the (give or take) exclusion of other trophies is what’s put him in this position. It’s a form of double jeopardy if you like where nothing else but the PL title will do now.
As to expecting too much too soon, possibly but you could argue that, say, Ten Hag at Utd has managed to win two domestic cups in consecutive seasons recently with an inferior squad – despite City’s obvious dominance.
Anyway, we’ll see what happens starting later today.
He is quite right – no doubt about that, is there? I’ve said in posts previously and I’ll say it again here that in my opinion, the 2024-25 season is the most important for Arteta since he took over back in 2019.
Although they’ve done very well in the PL for the last two seasons, for all the money spent and all the hard work put in, Arsenal still has only a single F A Cup in the trophy cabinet to show for it (so far) under Arteta.
Winning a domestic cup or the Europa League for example in previous seasons (as well as challenging for the PL) would have strengthened Arteta’s position going into 2024-25. With only that single piece of silverware in the cabinet, he’s more “vulnerable” and the pressure is obviously (even) greater for the coming season.
I’m not suggesting that KSE will sack Arteta if he doesn’t bring the title back to Arsenal in 2024-25 but despite any public support (as long as it’s not the dreaded vote of confidence which usually means the end), I suspect that they will begin to look for someone who can “complete the project” at The Emirates.
Just what we all expect.
There is no doubt this season is massive, surely the biggest under the gaffer ríen, so much is riding on it.
Have seen enough to know we have the right man in charge, but others are growing impatient, for the gaffer sake he needs a big jug, the capture of the premier league would announce his arrival, winning another FA cup or a European one could give him vital breathing room.