The Spanish director of Arsenalís, Mikel Arteta (L), speaks with his players during a pre-season training session before their football match against Newcastle United at the Singapore National Stade on July 25, 2025. (Photo by Roslan Rahman / AFP)
Mikel Arteta challenged Arsenal to continue to dig gold while they are preparing to start their last offer for a first first League title since 2004 against Manchester United revised on Sunday.
The Arteta team has finished as a premier League finalists in the last three seasons, aroused criticism of their failure to overcome the line in the title race.
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Arsenal blew up large tracks when Manchester City brought them to the trophy in 2023 and 2024 before Liverpool left North Londonian Londoners in the grip of their wake last season.
The frustrations of the title of Arsenal have mounted, the fans wondering if Arteta is the right man to end their drought after winning the FA Cup 2020 since he took care of in December 2019.
But the Gunners showed their potential last season with a race for the Champions League semi-finals which ended with a narrow defeat against the possible Paris Saint-Germain winners.
And, supported by a multitude of new signatures worth more than 180 million pounds sterling ($ 244 million) in total, Arteta is convinced that they can finally get hold of the Premier League silverware this season
“You continue to dig, dig, dig and dig and dig because one day gold will be there,” he told journalists on Friday.
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“For three seasons, we had more points than (almost) any other team of this league, which is incredible.
“You have consistency, but now we have to do it in a season, to finish with more points than any other team.
“This is the goal. When I was taught, when I was educated, that’s all. ”
Hoped by injuries to Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz at various stadiums last season, Arsenal had no point and was held at 14 prints compared to the nine of Liverpool.
It was a crucial advantage because Arsenal finished 10 points behind the champions.
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In an attempt to isolate Arsenal against another collapse linked to fitness, Arteta brought Lisbon Sports striker Viktor Gyokerres, the Real Sociedad Martin Zubimendi midfielder, Chelsea Noni Madueke and the midfielder of Brentford Christian Norgaard.
“ Each game is like ‘Do-Or-Die’
After deploring Arsenal to sign the attacker of Aston Villa Ollie Watkins while Liverpool moved away during the January window, the Spaniard is a much more optimistic figure on the eve of the new season.
“I think we have great versatility, very different qualities compared to the opposition, so we are very satisfied,” he said.
Arteta said that “too” teams have a legitimate blow to win the Premier League to his liking, some that he even suspects “to surprise everyone”.
Whether it was a united index, which has undergone their worst season since 1973-1974 the last mandate, could emerge as pretenders after their summer spending tournament.
Arsenal was linked to a decision for the new United striker, Benjamin Sesko, before deciding to bet on Gyokerres for costs that could reach 66 million pounds sterling.
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Gyokerres scored 97 times in 102 games in two years at Sporting, a large part of which was the current manager of United, Ruben Amorim.
Instead of being found with the Swedish, Amorim revised his attack with the signatures of Sesko de Leipzig, the Brentford Bryan Mbeumo winger and the Wolves Matheus Cunha striker at a combined cost of more than 200 million pounds Sterling.
United, who has not won the title since 2013, had to spend big to erase the stench of their putrid campaign.
The AMORIM team finished a dark 15th in the high flight and wasted a chance to qualify for the Champions League with a 1-0 swung defeat against the other Tottenham sub-performants in the Europa League final.
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The pressure is on Amorim, which replaced the Limot of Erik Ten Hag in November, to make major improvements to its second season.
Amorim knows that Sesko will be the key to this target and he thinks that 22 -year -old Slovenian is ready to take up the challenge.
“I don’t need to say to Ben,” well, it’s Manchester United, a lot of pressure. Each match is like doing or dying, “said Amorim.
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“He still thinks of football. He is really obsessed on this subject.”
