Mikel Arteta makes telling title race admission after another season without silverware at Arsenal

Mikel Arteta has admitted that helium knew Arsenal would autumn abbreviated successful the Premier League rubric contention earlier the play adjacent started.

The Gunners, whose exit from the Champions League past week confirmed yet different play without silverware astatine the Emirates, are primed to decorativeness 2nd successful the Premier League for the 3rd consecutive run pursuing Liverpool's rubric triumph.

The Reds, who big Arsenal astatine Anfield connected Sunday, won the Premier League with 7 games remaining arsenic Arteta's broadside continued to driblet points portion focusing connected Champions League knockout ties with PSV, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.

The northbound London club, who beryllium 15 points down Liverpool up of Sunday's match, volition beryllium looking to wrapper up Champions League qualification with Manchester City, Newcastle, Chelsea and Aston Villa each wrong 4 points of the 67 they person tallied.

Despite heading into 2024-25 play arsenic 1 of the favourites to triumph the title, alongside perennial winners Man City, the Gunners person struggled for consistency passim the run owed successful portion to a wealthiness of wounded problems.

Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Magalhaes and Gabriel Jesus are among those to person suffered lengthy spells connected the sidelines passim the season, with Arsenal experiencing a shortage of options successful peculiar up front.

'There are a batch of factors,' Arteta said aft being asked astir Arsenal's rubric challenge. 'We knew from the opening of the play that our squad was ace short.

'Being ace abbreviated we had immoderate players that had a precocious probability of getting injured, due to the fact that that's what they had successful the past fewer seasons.

'So we knew that and we cannot bash thing astir it.

'But we volition bash everything that we tin to amended the squad and particularly amended the players that we already have.  

'That is not thing we person conscionable started to speech astir now. If we were lone having those meetings present we would beryllium doing it precise late.

'Whatever the marketplace offers to springiness america a amended accidental to triumph for definite we volition effort to bash it.

'Over the play determination are galore things you request to spell your way.

'In the objective moments, does the shot deed the station and travel out, oregon spell in? That's the good margins.

'What we person to effort to bash is to amplify the margins. The bigger the margins are, adjacent if those things happen, past it volition beryllium precise hard for the opposition.

'We person to bash it our way. We person to beryllium authentic with ourselves and what we believe, what we tin bash and what we've been doing. That's it.' 

Arsenal were hoping to extremity the play with a historical Champions League honour, but the northbound London nine were incapable to surpass PSG astatine the semi-final stage. 

The upcoming summertime transportation model is apt to beryllium an highly important 1 for Arsenal and Arteta, with Real Sociedad prima Martin Zubimendi already understood to person agreed a woody to motion up of the caller campaign.

Arsenal are besides successful the marketplace for a caller striker, with Sporting Lisbon guardant Viktor Gyokeres and RB Leipzig prima Benjamin Sesko among those linked with a determination to the Emirates.