Arsenal: Title Drought Ending Soon?

LONDON – After three seasons, the highlight of Arsenal for three second places in the Champions League and the Champions League semifinals, it is time to start winning.

However, the performances in the opening rounds of the new year and especially the performance at Old Trafford and Anfield have come under the fire of criticism, and many are again asking whether Mikel Arteta is the right man who leads Arsenal to important trophy.

In recent years, Arsenal fans have been extremely turbulent. The era after the legendary Arsèn Wenger began with Unai Emery on the bench. However, he lasted less than a year and a half at Emirates, and just before the end of 2019 he took the position of coach Mikel Artet.

A man who had no experience with something similar, joined this post in a club who had been losing his breath for a long time and growing pressure on the lead. That is why many were surprised that he got the trust of Artet, who, after the end of his gaming career, made assistant Pep Guardiol in Manchester City.

The first year and a half on the bench suggested that this decision was not happy. But Artet was able to direct the “canons” to the right path. After two eight places in the league came in the season 2021/2022 return to Cup Europe and the next year came the fight for the title. But the second place behind Manchester City seems to be awarded what Arsenal is waiting for in the near future.

Despite the fact that Arsenal literally got up from the ashes, he returned between the English and European top and in the last three seasons he was one of the most striking teams in the fight for the big trophies, but Mikel Artet’s charge did not reach any. Despite the piece of robots and the solid foundations built by the Spanish coach, along with the management of the North Lendon club, but still many questions and a sense of insecurity are still flowing around it.

Can Arsenal take the last step, which is getting a big trophy? Is Artette a man who leads him to it? Wasn’t the whole process that many fans still believe, but many of this favorite word of a native of San Sebastian curse, actually a blind aisle?

No time for excuses

The first complete season of Mikela Artet on the bench was not successful. The only positive thing was the many opportunities and performances of young players, such as Emile Smith Rowe, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka. Subsequently, however, two years came, despite the pre -season goal, had a bitter flavor for fans.

In the 2021/2022 season, Arsenal wanted to return to Cup Europe. Thanks to the fifth place he succeeded, but the fans could not suffer from the fact that their arch -enemy Tottenham deprived them of the leading of the Champions League. The next year was supposed to be among the best four for the canoniers, but thanks to the famous first half of the season, Arsenal unexpectedly got into the fight for the title.

Mikel Artet’s men have long been the biggest favorite for the title, and fans still remember the incredible Aston Villy or at home with Bournemouth, who seemed to have finished the title really ended at Emirates. Compared to City, however, Arsenal lacked experience and a major problem was the injuries of support like Gabriel Jesus, who missed a substantial part of spring, or William Salib, whose absence was crucial at the end of the season, which cannoners simply did not manage.

The 2023/2024 season was the culmination of disappointments from recent years, when Arsenal was missing two points and the champion decided only in the last round. Arsenal thus fulfilled the pre -season ambitions three times, but still the fans remained only the eyes for crying.

The first significant failure came only last season. For the first time, Arsenal was unable to confirm the rising tendency and in the league he gained fewer points than in the previous year. The patch was not even the semifinals in the Champions League, where the thirteen -fold English champion failed on the later PSG winner. Many asked whether the leadership would continue to have patience with Artet.

The answer came this summer and was absolutely clear. Despite the fact that Arsenal has traditionally failed to sell players, the owners spent more than 290 million euros and gave the artet the team he hadn’t had so far. Virtually every post has doubled players, whom he brought to the club himself and so the space for any excuses ended. Inexperience, quality, narrow cadre or injuries can no one take into account this year.

The words of the recognized British journalist David Ornstein are fully talking about Arsenal’s settings. “What Arsenal has shown in the transfer market so far is something almost unprecedented and truly remarkable – and yet there is no end of the transfer period,” He said Ornstein just before the transfer deadline.

“It shows that the owners continue to stand firmly behind the club and are not afraid to spend large amounts.
Many have wondered why they didn’t bring the player to the one. Why didn’t they take the attacker in January. Perhaps this moment has been looked at – three second places in the Premier League and no big trophy since 2020. “

“There is no internal pressure on Mikel Artet – it has full confidence – but it is clear that everyone wants to finally make the way to the title and trophy to the end. That’s why he is not waiting for tomorrow or another transfer window. Arsenal wants to be successful here and now.”

This is one of the reasons why many think that if Arteta does not win his second trophy this season, he will definitely give the Spanish coach goodbye to the Spanish coach. In the event of failure, even his greatest supporters, which are less and less, would probably not be behind him.

Watching their football is terrible

Apparently, Arteta is not even a former goalkeeper and legend not only Manchester United, but also the whole Premier League, Peter Schmeichel. He was perhaps the loudest critic of the tactics with whom the Spanish coach came in the third round for Anfield. Despite the fact that Arsenal practically eliminated the offensive stars of Liverpool, his team presented himself in a very defensive style and returned to London without a point.

Schmeichel blamed for a not too lively match, which was supposed to decorate the beginning of the season, especially Artet. “I never wanted the team to win a football match more than Liverpool today. Arsenal brings a nasty brand of football to our game. Arteta … let his team play football! Let them be free!”

“I am convinced that if Arteta does it, he wins more matches. You need two teams to show good football and there is only one team trying to play football, and that’s Liverpool. I don’t want to offend Arsenal, but watching their football is terribly annoying,” He added a former football player.

For Arsenal fans and the entire Premier League, it may not have been a surprise with what tactics Artet’s tactics he had been out for the match. However, many of them would certainly be happy to take at least something from Schmeichel’s advice, because he currently has a very strong cadre, which has a clear potential to lift viewers from the seats, which Arsenal in the past and under the leadership of Arteta.

Is Arteta the right man for Arsenal?

Despite huge progress, the 43-year-old helmsman is still under pressure not only for experts, but also by “Gunners” fans. Among other things, Schmeichel said that Artet was able to win a single trophy with the team he inherited from his predecessor. The subsequent construction of the team has brought a gust of fresh air to Emirates, but the desired step has not yet come.

The question is so clear. Is Mikel Arteta the right man that Arsenal leads to the desired achievements? Will it be exaggerated caution and in recent times a very defensive football place on the bench?

Doubt about his qualities is often the way to artist, thanks to his statements or non -traditional methods. Unfortunately, the work he has done in Arsenal, and is not at all small, is often forgotten. However, fans should not forget what problems the London club was after the end of the Wenger era.

Regular defeats and debacles became a struggle for the title. The players whose names were pronounced by fans with bitterness and sometimes shame were exchanged by young leaders, who are worn by fans with pride. The places at the end of the first league were replaced by the Champions League semifinals, which was even considered a failure and one of the reasons for which Artet should end. This is just another evidence what a huge leap Arsenal did.

The relatively young coach still has a huge share in this change. Moreover, many forget that, just as they needed to mature players like Bukayo Saka or William Salib, who are still only 24 years old, Arteta himself must mature to the top level.

Without any experience, he took the role of the helmsman when the red ship was from northern London almost to the bottom. With the help of leadership, players and fans, he got it back among the elite, and even though he simply has to deliver success this season, he deserves all support and energy from Arsenal fans.

Artet is not only playing for favor and future, but also how supporters will be perceived. If he fails, everything he has done for the club will be forgotten and the revolution, as he called his book in Arsenal, journalist Charles Watts will be forgotten forever.

Whether it is successful or not, it will not be evaluated at the end of the season. But if Arteta and his players do not get full support and club supporters at this time, they will turn their backs at the moment, then the traditional club from London will lose much before he can hear the final whistle this season.

• Author: © List/ Milan Stano
• Source: Spits