Former Arsenal man Paul Merson has discussed the Premier League’s title race for the 2023/2024 season after the Gunners superbly challenged Manchester City last term.
Mikel Arteta’s men have strengthened their group again with some fine players and fans are hopeful they will make a good impression in the next campaign.
City remains the overwhelming favourite to be crowned league champions no matter who you ask, but Arsenal will fancy their chance of being in the title race again.
The Gunners will also face competition from some of the top sides in the country, who are tipped to have a better season as well.
Predicting the next campaign’s title race, Merson wrote on Sports Keeda:
“I can’t look past Manchester City for the Premier League title. With Gundogan gone and Kyle Walker on his way out, it might be difficult for them this season. Arsenal could give them a run for their money, but City’s bench is very strong.
“Declan Rice will need to get used to the way Arsenal. They move the ball around a lot faster than he’s used to at West Ham and England. Arsenal could get close, but I don’t see Liverpool mounting a challenge at the moment.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
We are one of the clubs to watch out for and everyone would be eager to see what we can do because of how we performed last season.
Our current squad is in top shape and we expect the players to prove they know why they are at the Emirates.
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Well city is not my favorites.
Arsenal are the favorites. I personally believe Arsenal handed city the league the last term, though City did well to position themselves to take advantage of it. This to me was due to a lot of technical issues like contract situations that did not allow the manager to make the ruthless substitutions he had to make to win the league. He ultimately sacrificed that to get the boys feeling his believe in them for them to sign. Things will be different this term. City have to keep up this season. I won’t be surprised if they ended up like Liverpool this season.
Yeah, my thoughts.
Things could change though as the market is still open.
The big Problem we were almost going to face is our manager trying to think or play down the immense importance of Xhaka and Partey. Being open to Partey leaving is putting too much pressure on Rice and Kai. It will be a brand new team instead of an improvement on the previous team. The outcome could be undesirable that is where City becomes nailed down favorites. With Partey in the team, the league is ours to lose just like last season.
I just hope for an injury free season for the players.
Manchester City deserved the title; the EPL table does lie!
For as long as we don’t have a deadly no. 9, we must just forget about winning the league.. Let alone the Champions League…Mark my words..,🤞🤞…
Invalid. mark my word
No words to mark, mate,
We didn’t have a “deadly no. 9” last term but we scored the second highest number of goals. Some reports even claim the 88 we scored was the club’s highest tally in the PL. And that was achieved with Jesus, our no. 9, missing much of the season.
If our preseason games are anything to go by, I see a repeat of last season. I see Arsenal scoring goals from all over the pitch. What needs to be done is to plug the leakages, especially from defensive errors, and we’d be just fine.
So you are agreeing with them then? A deadly no.9 would’ve turned that 2nd into 1st?
Not really because we barely created chances and we conceded more than we were able to score right from the Liverpool game up until against Nottingham forest. Even top strikers like Kane,haaland or benzema would have been starved of goalscoring chances never mind scoring them and of course he can’t prevent them in the other end hence why I think a deadly striker couldn’t have done much to remedy our situation.