Arsenal is making significant strides in strengthening Mikel Arteta’s squad during this transfer window, providing him with the support he deserves after an impressive 2022/2023 season that secured their return to the Champions League.
With the next development stage being to win trophies, Arteta’s experience and time as an assistant manager under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City have influenced his approach states Mirror Football.
Guardiola is widely regarded as one of the best managers in the world, and many coaches aspire to learn from him. During his time at City, Guardiola often favoured signing players with versatility, capable of excelling in multiple positions on the field.
This strategy is evident in City’s signings of players like Nathan Ake, John Stones, Bernardo Silva, Manuel Akanji, and Rico Lewis, all known for their adaptability.
Arsenal’s recent acquisitions, including Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber, also reflect Arteta’s focus on versatile players, underscoring his inclination to emulate the principles he learned from Guardiola.
With such a strategy in place, Arsenal aims to reinforce their squad and maximise their potential to compete at the highest level both domestically and in European competitions.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Pep is one of the best managers in the world and it is excellent that Arteta was able to learn from him.
Hopefully, Arteta will go on and emulate his mentor and pick up multiple trophies with Arsenal.
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When I think of Arteta, one word jumps out…ambition!
It’s such a refreshing change from 4th place being our only objective every season. We’re finally acting like a big club again.
Huge praise has to go out to Arteta, Edu, Josh and others, because you need everyone pulling in the same direction, but I get the impression that Arteta is the main instigator.
I concur 👍🏼
Show some respect to Wenger. Imagine he had the backing Arteta has received, we would’ve had a lot more trophies in his time.
I beg to differ. The liar spoke lies. The owners are the same, if they are spending they would have spent then. The man thought he was the “greatest” as some myopic fans termed him so. If he had signed Suarez we would have won the title then. He made a stupid +1GBP Idiot
Wenger deserves respect for maintaining certain standards for most of his time at the helm. However, some of the statements attributed to him in his later years at Arsenal do raise questions about the suggestion that he was not backed.
It was claimed for example that he stated that money was not a problem but he would only players that would improve the quality of the squad.
Wenger had the backing. He rather wasn’t utilizing them. The Ronaldo’s, Suarez and co.
Like being economical in buying and returning allotted transfer funds back to chest.
Adamant on stamping his credentials in Economics, on the game.
He insisted that no player deserves the £50m price tag including Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez etc
Arteta was Arsenal captain. He is still continuing his duties as a coach. He is trying to build the team he loves and played for exactly to the standard he would have wanted it to be during his playing days.
This is all we want and we are grateful for his commitment.
Arsenal going for the best talents available in the market. Arsenal a threat to everyone in the market. Kudos to everyone that played a role in putting us in this situation, the players who did the job on the pitch included.
I just hope we get some luck with injuries for once, as I think we can win something at the moment.
Can’t even start to blame injuries, we had the most consistent line up in the EPL last season….so we were very lucky let’s not act like we weren’t.
The lack of rotation, coaching of fringe players and a stale unfit bench is a different story.
Arsenal played only 6 games with their best 11 this past season. So, thats just wrong my friend.
So much impressed with the Arteta management era despite aslow development in terms of trophies but the direction is very clear. Honestly
Pep Guardiola once said the gaffer change the structure at Arsenal, whether he was playing mind game in saying that we may never know, one thing for sure things has changed for the better at Emirates.
One could argue the gaffer has been back to an unprecedented level never seen before, but that should be for another discussion.
The gaffer spend over three years as part of Guardiola coaching staff at the Citizens , he once claimed the master has the biggest influence on his coaching career.
The gaffer has made a huge impact on the Arsenal dressing since taking over from Unai Emery almost four years ago, with the Spaniard not shy to ruffle star feathers.
Though the gaffer maybe into his first managerial role, and while he may lack experience, he can’t be accused of lacking decisiveness in his man management.
There is just this steely determination about him my very experience eyes see, a fan once said Arteta is smart and hungry and that’s a dangerous combination to have, I agree with the fan but not in its entirety.
@PJ-SA
You couldn’t be more wrong. Not only did Wenger have the backing of the owners, he had far more power and influence within the club than Arteta has.
Wenger publicly stated how he didn’t like the transfer window, and that he didn’t like spending, as if it was his money. He could have spent more, but preferred looking for solutions from within.
When he did FINALLY spend, he made some bizarre and shocking transfers. The summer of only Cech coming in was delusional at best, and damn right offensive to the fans that were pumping money into the club, only to see a player come in that we didn’t even need!
Wenger never addressed the squad’s deficiencys.
Wenger had to say that he’ll only sign players better than what he had because it was a ploy to build the team’s confidence rather than admitting we have little money to spend, it was him turning a con into a pro. Do think he wanted to sell some of our best players, if you believe that then I don’t know how to reach you
As for Arteta’s reign alongside Josh and Edu, we’ve turned a corner and in my book this is unprecedented, we’re for real acting like a big club this is new territory
Paying a stadium is never easy. Once it was paid, progress could then be made. People underestimate the work Wenger made running the Club on empty, and have to sell players to pay off the loan.
Having said that, he still made some crazy decisions.
Arteta is taking the Club the right way.