Manchester City are once again the PL champions. Arsenal had their best chance in 20 years to become champions but unfortunately failed to outwit the Manchester Blues.
Much has been said about the Gunners’ failure to win the title race, but what’s clear is that with no quality bench, Arteta couldn’t go toe-to-toe with Guardiola, whose team has crazy squad depth.
Arteta admitted that Manchester City are better than them, as far as the squad qualities are concerned, after losing to Nottingham Forest and knowing the title race was over: “That is my job, and that is what this club deserves. At the end, it wasn’t enough, and I know that we weren’t at that level, but we have to find a way; this is not enough. It is not going to change in three months’ time that we are going to be at that level, but we have to find another way to do it.”
Ian Wright says plans for the Gunners to try to bridge the gap between them and the Citizens are well underway. Speaking on PL Productions, he said as quoted by Football London, “I don’t think you can question the quality of the manager [Pep Guardiola], the players, the intensity, their determination to win, to have a standard of football that we are talking about as some of the greatest we’ve ever seen
“We can’t ignore that they have got the capability of buying the players where they can continue to replenish a squad that we’ve seen just demolish teams.
“Look at Liverpool trying to chase them down; you saw what happened to Arsenal; Arsenal drew three games, and we know that Manchester City are able to go on that run where you can’t afford to do that because they do not slip up at this stage of the season.
“This is why five out of six Premier Leagues they’ve won, because they’ve got the best coach, they’ve got the best team, they’ve got great resources, it’s very difficult for other teams to live up to the pressure; Liverpool lost one game.
“You know the levels they’re setting; that’s why it’s a tough job for Arsenal; it’s going to be so hard. But I think Edu and Mikel are all over it in trying to bring the kind of player who can sustain a challenge.”
Edu and Arteta make us proud.
COYG!
Sam P
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Dont but city cast offs then. Get better players that can do the job. City sold us Jesus and Zinchenko, then upgraded with the money. What do people expect. If Jesus and Zinchenko were not good enough for city how can we expect them to be better for us.
It’s not just a question of spending vast sums to guarantee success, it’s about finding quality and value for money.Pep is an astute Manager in more ways than one.Haaland cost around 60m whilst West Ham are apparently looking for near 100m for Rice.Without accepting players as part of the deal they will never get 100m.Alvarez, who was regarded as a potential replacement cost less than we paid for Zinchenko.However to me the best deal in terms of quality and value for money must be Akanji who cost only 15m and who along with Ake, has been their best defender this season.On the down side Phillips at 50m has been a poor buy which just proves that even the best Manager can get it wrong.As far as Arsenal is concerned, I don’t believe our recruitment has been particularly good, and certainly we are well below the likes of Brighton when it comes to unearthing relatively unknown gems.
Well said Grandad, people are very quick to just behind the oil money excuse and give City/Pep zero credit.
If money is the answer then why were Chelsea so poor? City’s recruitment is fantastic, certainly better than ours. Given our spending over the past few seasons we cannot throw stones, especially because a fair amount was on players that simply were a waste of money (Viera/Tavares for eg.)
Grandad I agree that our buying has been good AND bad,in roughly equal measure.
Lokonga, Tavares, Viera, and keeping such dross as Holding and Elneny is, to my mind, stupid!
But it needs to be said we are years away from being able to AFFORD a squad as deep and rich as Citys, even if we never buy another poor player, which WILL happen, IMO!
The huge waste of money on Pepe has hurt us badly. SANLLEHI is to blame for that. We ought to sue him for that wasted money.
Or call in the police, as he is IMO shady and suddenly vanished almost overnight. That doesn’t happen IF all is above board.