Jamie Carragher makes Mikel Arteta SACK prediction - as he claims the Arsenal boss is 'sounding like a fan' after tense post-match interview

Jamie Carragher has laid retired however the axe could autumn connected Mikel Arteta, amid Arsenal's 5th consecutive play with nary silverware.

After beating Tottenham 5-1 astatine the extremity of past month, Liverpool pipped the Gunners to the rubric with 4 games to go, making Arne Slot's broadside the joint-third earliest champions successful Premier League history.

Arsenal's Champions League imagination was stopped abbreviated by PSG past week who consigned the northbound London nine to a semi-final exit. 

Arteta's broadside were besides bounced retired astatine the semi-final signifier successful the EFL Cup by Newcastle, portion their FA Cup tally was halted astatine the archetypal checkpoint erstwhile they mislaid successful the 3rd circular to Manchester United.

And aft Arsenal's 2-2 gully with Liverpool connected Sunday, Carragher had immoderate damning words for their manager.

‘This play felt similar it should person been their season,' the Reds fable said. 'There’s nary uncertainty adjacent play that the unit volition beryllium connected Mikel Arteta massively successful presumption of winning thing and winning thing big.

‘The Arsenal board, if they don’t [win a large trophy], volition person a monolithic contented due to the fact that they won’t privation to alteration their manager, but determination volition beryllium that galore radical saying: 5 oregon six years without a trophy.

‘They volition beryllium looking astatine however galore managers tin marque that adjacent step.’

However, Carragher did concede that a managerial power would beryllium a large gamble for Arsenal, fixed that Arteta has had them consistently warring for Premier League titles for the archetypal clip successful astir 20 years. 

The pundit explained that bringing idiosyncratic caller successful could person an other effect to the 1 desired, citing Chelsea's caller struggles.

‘The occupation with changing Mikel Arteta because, arsenic I said, he’s done a superb occupation astatine Arsenal,’ helium added.

‘Arsenal could easy go what Chelsea are close now. They could spell from a squad coming 2nd twelvemonth in, twelvemonth retired to a squad that doesn’t really get into the Champions League.

‘[Changing managers] is the large conundrum that Arsenal arsenic a shot nine volition person successful 12 months, if Arsenal spell adjacent again don’t really get crossed the line.’

Carragher went connected to explicit his deficiency of amusement astatine Arteta's het up post-match interrogation pursuing Sunday's result, arguing that the 43-year-old erstwhile again came crossed 'like a small spot of a fan'.

Arteta said: 'For sure, don’t play six times successful the play with 10 men - due to the fact that if that happens, we won’t triumph [the title] adjacent season, for sure. And [we request to] learn, a batch of learning.’

Arteta was referencing Mikel Merino's reddish paper offence, which was Arsenal's sixth successful the Premier League this season.

Soon aft drafting the Gunners level successful the 70th minute, Merino was sent off, halting his side's hopes of afloat unravelling Liverpool's two-goal pb and scoring a third.

Instead, Arsenal had to play retired the 2-2 gully and permission Merseyside with a point. 

In effect to Arteta's comments, Carragher continued: 'Mikel Arteta successful the past mates of weeks is saying things and he's getting emotional. And astatine times he's sounding similar a small spot of a fan, not truthful overmuch the manager.

'I deliberation he's convinced wrong that they've been victims this play successful immoderate way; they've had six sending offs, the injuries that they've had.

'I deliberation heavy down helium thinks they could person won the league without this and that - the reddish cards are not their fault, it was the referees and the injuries.'