Arsenal is hoping that Mikel Arteta will agree to a new contract, but they’re not too worried about losing him, even if his current deal runs out next year. However, there are clubs like Manchester City and Barcelona who might be interested in trying to lure the Spaniard away from the Emirates Stadium.
Well, according to TBR, it seems like the Gunners want their boss to brush off any interest from Manchester City and Barcelona and instead agree to extend his time with them. TBR claims it’s expected that he’ll sign a new deal before the start of next season.
The Spaniard is believed to be content at Arsenal; he believes the club has supported him in the transfer market, and he enjoys a great relationship with club chief Edu. Arsenal has consistently made progress under Mikel Arteta, year after year. Even if Manchester City doesn’t drop points on the final match day for Arsenal to win their league, the Gunners can hold their heads high; they have demonstrated their hunger and desire to win the league title.
Arteta and his coaching staff’s impressive work is evident in the Gunners’ progression in the league over the last few years. This season, Arsenal’s entry into the Champions League quarterfinals, a competition they had not participated in for years, demonstrated a significant improvement in their performance. Arteta deserves all the credit for turning Arsenal from a team that just honoured fixtures into a team that can actually contend for the title.
The Gunners’ boss has laid the groundwork for Arsenal’s success, and he clearly has the potential to become a manager who truly enhances the love of the game in the 2020s.
Sam P
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Arteta has done well, and I would be glad to see him continue. However, if we go trophyless this season and the next, we would need to conduct a very objective analysis. Improvement without trophies is meaningless. The whole purpose of improving a team of Arsenal’s stature is to win trophies and titles.
“Persuade”!!!??. What a language howler!
Who on Earth could possibly need persuading to extend his contract? With ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB, in the worlds greatest city and with such a team already??
There is no “PERSUADE”necessary and when the club see fit, as they will before much longer, MA WILL, not might, SIGN A NEW AND LONG CONTRACT.
GUARANTEED!!
As far as I know Guardiola isn’t planning on leaving City this summer and he’s manager there for as long as he wants to be. So no vacancy there for Arteta.
Arteta is clearly a good manager and Arsenal have made progress year on year, they wouldn’t want to lose him. But he’s only doing what other good managers are doing in the premier league. He’s joined Arsenal in 2019, Howe joined Newcastle in 2021 and Emery joined Villa in 2022. Postecoglou of course is in his first season. So Arteta has had a bit longer to work on his squad.
Of course McKenna has just taken Ipswich to successive promotions into the premier league on a shoestring budget. Maybe in a few years we will be talking about him as the best manager in English football.
I don’t think there is a worry about Arteta’s contract situation. It will be done surely. I think he deserves it. Making Arsenal the powerhouse that it is now. It’s not just improvement, just look at the gulf between the 2nd and the 3rd spot in terms of metrics, not just points. Going by the table, Arsenal and City are clearly in the league of their own in terms of metrics. And if that isn’t the sign that the title is near, then what is. Only an absolute fool would look to not extend Arteta and think of bringing another manager. If anyone thinks that way, they really haven’t got a single clue about what running a successful club means.
I think the majority of our fanbase would like to keep Arteta but I don’t know about the ever present “Arteta Bashers”. Now is the time for the prominent Arteta Bashers to start suggesting names of the managers they would prefer to replace Arteta for next season..
OR INSTEAD, TO SWALLOW A COMMON SENSE PILL! And begin realising just what a superb mamanger they have mmaaging their club.
Some are given foresight, including , thankfully,our owners.
Some are given only hindsight. And some are so blinkered that they are given no sense at all!
So they, even now, constantly berate the best manager we are ever likey to get,once Wengers glory decade plus, was over, around 2008.
Some failed to see even beyond only our finishing positions and were so in thrall with AW, even in his latter dismal years, that they could not see what a mess first EMERY and then MA had been left behind to clean up and get rid of.
Of course I FULLY ACKNOWLEDGE that only since MA came in that KSE started properly backing us financially.
Could it be, I have to wonder, that KSE had the greatest foresight among us all and knew, right from his start, that we had FINALLY FOUND A MANAGER WHO KNEW THAT YOU BUILD A GREAT TEAM BY FIRST GETTING IN A GREAT DEFENCE. And booting out lazy shirkers and trouble makers.
No more Mustafi’s, Sokratis’s and a long list of other CB rubbish across the decades,no proper CDM either, plus incredibly, that Spanish waiter, ALMUNIA for three miserable seasons. And as FIRST CHOICE KEEPER TOO. SIGH!
Jon
Just my opinion your not superb or great unless you win a title
If he lest tomorrow he’s done a good job but you wouldn’t say he was a great manager would you ?
Yes DAN I do think he IS a great manager who has transformed our club from a relative laughging stock compared with other traditional top clubs.
We WERE the equivalent, in Wengers last years, of where Man Utd are right now.
Sick, drifting visibly and with demotivated players and a disunited squad with shirkers like OZIL AND AUBA AND A JOKE DEFENCE.
LOOK AT HOW WE ARE NOW.
By Sunday night we are likely to have just one point fewer than our Invincibles.
To my mind THAT IS great manageship. You disagree and that is fine. We are all entitled to our own opinions
And more to thepoint, he WONT be leaving tomorrow nor in the forseeable future and our team is heading, obviously, full sail towards greatness.
Yeah was just interested in your opinion if he now was in that league of a great manager
I do agree we are heading In the right direction and who knows about this Sunday.
Unlikely but not the miracle some claim
I agree.
The majority would want to keep Arteta as he has already demonstrated he is a superb manager. The fact that he has yet to topple Pep who is a generational manager and had a massive “head start” should not detract from what Arteta has contributed to the transformation of Arsenal.
Some are suggesting he has merely done “a good job”, demonstrating a real lack of insight into the issues that had plagued Arsenal for years, and what it would take to make the team competitive with the world’s best.
The Arteta bashers probably won’t go away unless we win the PL (although even then it shouldn’t be too surprising if someone complains again about the absence of academy players!).
I disagree
Why not go ahead and state why you disagree?
I disagree
That tickled me lol
Yes,a looooooooooooooong one please
It’s difficult to think of a reason for him not to stay at Arsenal.
Not sure how you compare metrics between a manager whose been there four years and one whose been there two, its comparing apples and pears.
If you have a good manager then there’s a penalty if you change him. The next man in will want his own players to play the way he wants to play. So a period of disruption is almost inevitable. You really want to keep the same manager for as long as possible.
Absolutely!
Don’t understand the question. A manager who might win the EPL title, the first for 20 years, on Sunday surely does not need to be persuaded to sign a new contract. He’s spent the best part of 5 years assembling a side only 2 points off Man City and capable of winning serious trophies. Why on earth would he think of leaving?
In their best forms, man united, Chelsea, man city, Liverpool and Leicester city all won the league but here comes our beloved club in our best form , we have won nothing and what we are told is to trust the process.
Who told this is our best form ? There is still scope for further improvement mate. …… also consistency wins you tittle not form….. still got a lot to learn. .
I’m confident there’s an improved contract in place, even before the current contract runs out. Nothing to worry about on that front, because i think he’s barely started what he’s trying to achieve here with us.
Well yeah
I would hope 1 FA Cup wasn’t the end of his work
Why am I running ? Lol
If I were the owner I would say ‘next season is no trophy no contract. Arteta prove you are not a Spurs Pochetino who did excellent job but always came up short in the end”
If I were the owner I would say “look what a blunder we did firing Emery instead of backing him. He has taken relegation contenders in the Champions League in less than two years without spending 800 and losing 500 million. A total of 1.3 billion”.
Arteta has already spoken about his desire to return to Spain 1 day so this will probably be his last contract would give him a new 3 year deal with option of a further year I would be amazed if Arteta does not win the prem league in that period if he doesn’t then dispite every he has done to transform the club he would be considered a failure!
Thank goodness you’re not the owner. Secondly, sacking emery is not a mistake, not ideal but necessary. I mean that pave way for Arteta appointment
I’m not carried away with what he’s doing at villa though he deserves credit, but we’ve seen a Leicester league champion that’s even more impressive and we all knew how it ends.
Additionally, he already has two community shield and one fa….. I mean we’re all like we don’t know how difficult it is to beat that man city team to the league, even klopp in all his greatness only won it once in seven years.
I wonder if Arteta is waiting to see what business Arsenal do in the Summer Transfer window before putting pen to paper?
Just an option!