Interview with Mikel Arteta: Arsenal Manager thinks that this season and the race for the title of the Premier League will be even more difficult | Football news

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta thinks that the Premier League competition is “as we have seen before” when he is preparing his Gunners team for the “most difficult” title race he saw.

The Spaniard enters his fifth full season in northern London and seeks to end 22 years of arsenal for a high -flying title – after the graduates in each of the last three years.

Arsenal was themselves occupied on the market with six new signatures totaling 200 million pounds of transfer-but Liverpool and Chelsea have themselves invested 250 million pounds Sterling, Manchester City also increasing their talent by 150 million pounds sterling.

“The competition in the league is now like nothing we have seen before,” Arteta told Roman Kemp in Sky Sports News while preparing his Arsenal team for the new season.

“We all know that to win the Premier League, you will have to be absolutely excellent, the level that will be necessary will be something that we have not yet experienced and we all want to win it.

“The level of managers, the consistency of the teams that have been together for years, the way in which they have increased their potential in the teams, the understanding between the players, the quality they have brought, it is certain that it will be the most difficult.”

Arsenal lost in three successive title races – twice against Man City and once in Liverpool last season.

But during this time, no team has taken over from the Premier League more than the Gunners – Arteta frequently saying that the only thing that remains for Arsenal to do is winning a trophy.

“I think you need to use it,” adds Arteta about the disappointment of the last three years.

“We need more points, it’s clear. We have more points than any other team from the Premier League in the last three seasons and we have not won the Premier League. But that means that we have done so much.

“We have missed a few points in one of the seasons, and that’s what we will try to do to be better.”

‘Gyokerres is very, very special’

Arsenal will be stimulated by a new central striker after the signing of 63.5 million pounds sterling by Viktor Gyoking CP.

The Swedish striker scored 39 league goals for the Portuguese club last season and immediately received the emblematic shirt n ° 14 worn by the legend of the Thierry Henry club.

“This is the recruitment process, it is one of the things that interested me the most,” said Arteta, asked about the choice of Gyokerres’ shirt number.

“We have to bring a player who can put this shirt on the first day, enter the locker room and everyone says” he has it “. Viktor has definitely had this.

“He has this charisma, he has this personality and he is a really confident boy. We have already seen in the first weeks the way he acts, the way he behaves on the ground. Everything is natural for him.

“When you look at his goal record, we have not had a player who has scored so many goals in the past two seasons. This killer instinct, this capacity, this intuition inside the box to get the ball and put it back to the net is something very, very special.

“The threat level he provides and fear in opposition too. This is something that will benefit the players around him.

“It gives us the flexibility to attack in a different way, to threaten the opposition in a different way. Each time the new blood enters, something shakes and a new energy appears.”

One of the first major decisions that Arta must make this season is to start Gyokerres or Kai Havertz in the front role in the opening of the season against Manchester United, live on the Super Sunday of Sky Sports.

Havertz and Gyokerres both scored in the last pre -season match of Arsenal against Athletic Club – but Arteta insists that the pair can play one next to the other this season.

“Yes, they can play together,” says Arteta. “One of Kai’s greatest qualities is in particular that he can play in various positions. He did it with us, he did it at the highest level.

“Now we have options; on the right, we have options, on the left, we have options. This variety and this internal competition for places, the ability to have an impact on the game where we must also be a different level of threat.”

Meanwhile, Arsenal Captain Martin Odegaard thinks that the signing of Gyokerers could create more space for other club attackers on the field.

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“It’s always different and you have to adapt,” said the Norwegian. “It’s the same with Viktor now; he has different qualities and you have to make sure to get the most out of each player.

“He is a tall boy and he will draw a lot of attention and there will be a lot of discussions to him, so maybe that leaves more space for the rest of us.

“I think we just have to use each player of each player in the best possible way. This is how I see it.”

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