Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta has known as on everyone on the membership to provide extra because the Gunners search to determine and enhance the “very tiny margin” that value them final season’s Premier League title.
Arteta’s staff had been Manchester Metropolis’s closest challengers for the second yr in a row in 2023/24, ending simply two factors behind the eventual champions and taking the title race to the ultimate day.
The Spaniard, having already delivered Arsenal’s finest factors tally since they final gained the league in 2004, is in search of to finish a two-decade lengthy drought.
“Analyse what we did, and have a transparent perspective of how we achieved what we achieved final yr,” Arteta defined. “And why we did not obtain what we needed, which was finally to win main trophies, and particularly how shut we got here to changing into Premier League champions.
“It is realising the issues that we have to do higher, and enhance.”
Ending two factors behind Metropolis with an equal aim distinction, Arsenal may look again at New Yr’s Eve defeat to Fulham – by which they took the lead – as one of many main ‘what if’ moments. They had been additionally surprised by West Ham on the Emirates Stadium three days earlier and in addition narrowly misplaced to Aston Villa that month too.
“We all know the margins we have to do this as a result of on the stage we’re for the time being, there’s a very tiny margin to enhance and we try to have readability on which margins these are and the way we’re going to enhance them,” Arteta stated.
“My motivation and perception is these boys and the way a lot they need it, trying across the membership and the thrill that’s round it, and the truth that we actually need it.”
He went on to say: “I believe the message may be very clear – we’d like extra from everyone. Meaning personally I’ve to lift my requirements and I must deliver one thing that I haven’t introduced but, and individually and collectively we’ve to do the identical. And for our folks, it’s the similar – the extra they assist us, the higher the prospect might be to win the Premier League.
“That is what we would like, so we have to work day by day with that pleasure and understanding the issue of it. When troublesome instances come, we should be collectively and undergo them effectively.”