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Morning all.
It’s pretty quiet as you’d expect. The dust has well and truly settled on the season, and it’s now all eyes on the summer. One thing to mention about the transfer business we all want the club to do is that it could be quite a complicated window. Ideally, you get your deals done early, but with the European Championships on this summer, and the Copa America on the other side of the Atlantic, that might not be easy.
Deals involving players who are involved in competitions like that tend to happen afterwards, unless they get done well in advance – and as yet, there’s no suggestion that Arsenal are that far down the road with any of their targets. Not that we know for sure who those targets are, but it’s something to bear in mind as people get a bit antsy about new arrivals. What we can be relatively assured of is that Mikel Arteta and Edu know exactly who they want, it’s just about getting those deals done.
Speaking of Arteta, it’s being reported that formal talks regarding a new deal for the manager are set to commence – and to be honest, I’d be very surprised if they weren’t a long way down to the road to a new contract already. At our live event last week, we had a question about how long Arteta might stay at Arsenal, and my sense is that he will feel like his work will not be done until he wins the silverware we all crave. The Premier League, first and foremost, but probably the Champions League too.
It might sound fanciful, but it’s obvious that ambition is tied directly to his high standards and non-negotiables. He has spoken more than once about how he wants Arsenal to be the best, and to become that, you have to aspire to win the biggest trophies. You can’t just say ‘Ah we’ve finished second and that was good’. As he said himself on the final day of last season:
Don’t be satisfied because we want much more than that, and we’re going to get it.
That was a plea to the fans, to urge them to continue their…
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Publish date : 2024-05-30 06:43:47
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