There's numerous managers that pull a big threat for Mikel Arteta, not only Pep Guardiola. The gunners did an amazing job by portraying a competitive race against the cityzens. Let's say, Gunners ran out of luck towards ending of the league campaign, they started with an impressive start, and not ending lifting the title is something that baffles both the coach, the players and leaving the supporters hope and chant shattered. However they could always returned back to the league with more additional performance, Mikel Arteta is using this time to fixed the weak spots on his squad.
The gunner has amazing ran last season but disappointed result as always. How many times arsenal was repeating the same thing over and over again. People are very familiar with the club as a club that will never won trophies even though it has been leading the league for so many weeks in english premier league. People are even calling this as a banter club. It will be so dumb if arsenal will have same performance as last season. Arteta needs to reassemble everything in the club to make sure the same blunder will not happen again. People were also calling them have very good season but they are always being trophyless. It seemed to me if that was a tradition that owned by arsenal.
The club doesn't wanna win a trophy. that's why it's always having poort performance at the end of season. Arsenal has been breaking its own transfer record. Arteta needs to build its squad even deeper than before.
The coach and club spending the most on player spending in the transfer window is Arteta at Arsenal, it would be unreasonable to say they are not targeting a trophy next season. The EPL and ULC are the main targets, Arteta knows very well the consequences if he is inconsistent and doesn't bring home any trophies next season. Arsenal under the leadership of Arteta are trying to rid themselves of the attributes that were attached to them during the Arsene Wenger period, a club that seemed to have no desire for a championship trophy for the last two decades.
I'm watching Arteta build the main foundation of the club for the long term, his golden generation will start next season. The prediction is that only Arsenal can provide resistance for the Man City squad in the EPL.