When you manage a top club like Arsenal, where expectations are sky-high, you naturally expect the board to provide unwavering support. Mikel Arteta, throughout the first half of the season, could see that his team was lacking in certain areas, particularly in attack. It became clear that Arsenal needed to bolster their forward line if they were to compete at the highest level and challenge for major trophies.
However, despite recognising this need, Arteta did not receive the kind of support he would have hoped for during the January transfer window. The club made a move to sign Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa, but questions must be raised about why the approach came so late in the window. Why did it take until the dying moments of the transfer period for Arsenal to make a serious bid for the English striker? These are the types of questions Arteta will likely be asking himself as he strives to bring silverware back to the Emirates.
As the transfer window closed and Arsenal failed to make any major moves in the forward department, it became evident that Arteta was left to work with the same attacking options he had at the start of the season. Football Insider reports that Arsenal fans, ever attuned to their manager’s body language, can see that Arteta is unhappy with the lack of support from the board. His frustration is clear, and many feel that the January transfer window could have been an opportunity to strengthen the squad more significantly.
The manager’s need for support from the board is crucial as Arsenal look to push for the Premier League and Champions League. The Gunners must be willing to spend in the transfer market, especially when we see rivals like Manchester City continually strengthen their squad with significant investments. If Arteta is to lead Arsenal back to the top, he will need more backing in the transfer market to ensure that the team can compete with the best.
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As much as I want us to win a trophy,Arsenal will go on a little run here and there,score a lot of goals,play some great football. However at the end of the day,Liverpool will still outscore us. They will still have the better forwards i.e Salah,Gakpo,Jota.
MA should have prioritized a striker and back up for Saka long time ago.
I really really hope I’m wrong but I don’t think we will be winning anything this season.
As soon as the summer window opens,Arsenal should go all out for a striker,no questions asked,no second thoughts. That should be our priority.
Unwavering support is authorizing 800M+ in player transfer, another 100M++ in letting players leave for free, asking another 100M+ for a striker and another 3-350M in the summer for replacements for Tierney, Zinny, Tomiyasu, Partey, Kiwor, Jorginho, Viera, Lokonga, Gabby J., Trossad if/when they leave, backups for Saka, Raya, Saliba. To sum it up, after the arrival of Mikel prospective spend/loss of nearly 1.3billion, to achieve what? The double – Wenger’s top 4 trophy and the Emirates preseason Cup? Forest and NU are achieving it in 1/3rd the spend. Any business owner would be extremely displeased with such financial losses.
Give it a rest Newcastle have spent 600 million since Howe took over. Bruno, Tonali, Gordon, Isak, Botman, Hall, Willock all over 35 million a player
Liam,
Yes Newcastle may have spent £600 million since Howe took over. But he’s spent his budget, a hell of a lot better that Arteta.
Havertz, Calafiori, Merino, to name just three.
Currently Derek, Newcastle are 9 points behind Arsenal with a vastly inferior goal difference as well, so it rather clashes with your post don’t you think?
SueP,
I still say that Howe spent his money more wisely than Arteta.
And yes they currently sit 9 points behind us with an inferior goal difference.
But who’s in the final of one of the domestic cups.
It isn’t Arsenal is it. 😉👍🤷♂️
Derek
You can have the last word when Newcastle overtake us this season. 😉
SueP,
I’ll ask you this, if we finish second in the League and Newcastle win the League Cup.
Who’s had the most successful season.😉👍
I expected that Derek. League position v a cup.
What if we finish 2nd and Newcastle finish outside the top4 but win the Carabao cup? Who’s had the best season then?
SueP,
I still say Newcastle, winning a trophy outweighs finishing in the top four for me.
But I guess, we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.
But I won’t hold it against you.😁😉👍
Newcastle have different levels of success and priorities than us. League cup for them and top 4 is massive. League cup and top 4 for us is absolute minimum. Newcastle can not win the CL, they are not in it. We are and our aims are higher. Tgey have not invested like we have and they are way down the premier league “pecking” order.
In reply to Reggie
Not disputing your post for now but for the world’s richest club it’s only a matter of time before they expect to be top dog or almost top dog
I personally think it’s untoward to suggest a club with such influential ownership is that far down the pecking order. In fact, there are other clubs who would also consider themselves to be contenders.
Richest club? They have spending limits, they can not spend too much. Are very close to their spending limit. They haven’t the ability to throw money at it because of spending limits. They are a City club not global. They are way down the pecking order in the prem. Everton had two of the richest owners in football, look at them.
They still have high aspirations and whilst they do not have the same global appeal, will want success having already finished previously in the top4. Yes, the Carabao cup is important to them but I am pretty sure they are aiming higher than that. I don’t get what you mean about Everton at all. Saudi owners make Newcastle the richest club and whilst they have constraints on how much they can spend, I hardly think they fancy being also rans and will do as much as they can to advance the club they own.
Evertonhad Usminov a Moshiri. And no Newcastle are not the richest club in the world🤣 Their owners maybe but they can not bankroll them. Newcastle will always struggle to spend, probably what they may want too.
You are splitting hairs so my mistake there for getting the ownership and the value mixed up. Hilarious
But they gave him a pay rise in September?
I don’t know where you have worked but when your employer is not happy he tends to not give you a pay rise ?
@Shoba – transfer fees are not the only factor in a player’s cost to a club. Football finance is not as simple as that.
Many of those who went “free” (in the sense of “no transfer fee”) removed a hefty wage bill from the club – and in many cases, an ongoing personality/culture issue.
We spent money on Merino and Calafiori, neither of whom has set the heather on fire when we ought to have invested in a central striker.Our Manager puts the defeat from Newcastle down to a hectic schedule yet international players such as Zinchenko, Tierney and to a lessor extent, Kwior are used as bench warmers.Perhaps our owners have decided to hold fire when it comes to trusting Arteta, when he clearly does not trust some of the players he was instrumental in buying.
There you go again Grandad,
Making perfect sense as usual. 😉👍
If as seems likely we will be getting some players in the summer I hope we do buisness early and not wait until the end of the transfer window when the season has already started.
And then this time next year Man City will be top and we will be like oh we missed a chance last year
Man City down and out , our owners should have been all over it
Sadly our owner is the owner not the fans 😔😕. We let the owner use the media against us about how much we’ve spent. We all know we needed upgrades on most of our players when Arteta took over else we would have been where Manure are. Do you know how much City spent on their ageing squad? They n Chelsea are the reasons for players inflation.
Do you think that Pep’s heart is in it Dan? It will be interesting to see what happens with the extra CL matches.
What surprised me was Klopp leaving the team in good shape for this season but not having the energy to keep going.
Yeah he’s a winner
He will be hurting and they have the ambition to just throw money at it
We barely spent anything ( net ) in last 3 windows
I really do not think the owners are to blame.
It seemed like Arteta was chasing Sesko yet again during the Jan window, only when it was too late that he then asked for Watkins.
If we finally do get Sesko this summer then it had better be early on. I also expect him to hit the ground running and win the golden boot considering he is the only striker Arteta wants. He better be worth it!
morecoffeeman,
I to hope he hits the ground running. If he can’t we really are in trouble.🤣😂😉👍
I don’t know what Arteta has to be unhappy about, he’s paid well enough, and he’s secure until 2027 unless they pay him off with £30 million.
Nice one Mikel😉
If Arteta’s unhappy, he can always resign. Oh no sorry if he did that he wouldn’t get his full payoff would he. Silly me.🙄🤦♂️
We failed to address the issues during the Summer. We needed a striker; needed one for at least the last 3 years. We also needed a backup for Saka, needed that since Arteta arrived.
Instead, we continued to buy LB’s in the Summer, brought in another DM type midfielder in Merino, and last day dash for Sterling in his twilight years.
He spent the Summer money quite poorly, and that is on Arteta not the board or ownership.
Remember how many of us bashed Wenger for failing to bring in a DM for a decade? or how we were frustrated when Petr Cech was the only Summer addition that year? I think Arteta faces the same criticism for the same failings.
What a totally misguided article.
Arteta unhappy with the club’s hierarchy: this is just hearsay, utter rubbish.
To set the record straight – Arteta was not interested in signing anyone even after Jesus was injured in the transfer window. Internal solutions only. Arteta said so himself in front of the press.
However, later on in the transfer window, he changed his position to include new signings.
So where am I going with this? If Arteta had asked for new signings at the start, no doubt the hierarchy would have supported him.
And why wouldn’t they… after the ridiculous pay increase for Arteta up to 15M per season. Not even going to mention how they colluded with Arteta to throw Edu Gaspar under the bus.
Arteta is fully responsible for screwing up two transfer windows on the trop – Summer 24 and January 25.
You read the wrong rumour mill. My understanding is that Edu left because he wanted a seat on the Board, which he was denied. Other clubs offered him that to prise him away.
Is that right or wrong? I don’t know because I wasn’t there.
Important to realise that there’s a lot of nonsense made up about football on the spot by 24/7 news-cycle “journalists” who’ll do anything for clicks.
And btw, this article seems to be another one in that 24/7 made-up nonsense vein.
I cba to reply to it. Apart from anything else, it doesn’t matter – “we are where we are”, as the saying goes.
It was reported in the Guardian that the club did not spend as much as Edu hoped last summer window and that his desire to be Chief Executive was not on the agenda.
I missed that. At what point did the club collude with Arteta to throw him under the bus? Absolutely news to me
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“Fake news”
Football Insider reports on Arteta’s “body language”.🤣🤣🤣
Jax,
I don’t know about body language, but I’ve got a few hand gestures I wouldn’t mind showing Arteta. 😂🤣😉👍
The truth is a bit of both. Over the five seasons, Arteta has been properly backed in some windows but he has also been let down in some windows. Every season top teams try to improve, upgrade, or bring in some freshness but we do not do that