Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has stated he has “goosebumps” considering forward to the beginning of subsequent season and believes his group is just lacking a “little share” of their quest for main honours.
The north London aspect completed second within the Premier League for the third consecutive season this yr and, having additionally fallen brief within the cup competitions, Arteta has made it clear large modifications are coming within the switch market.
Arteta informed Sky Sports activities final week {that a} “very thrilling summer time” was in retailer and after the 2-1 win over Southampton on the final day of the league season, he reiterated his enthusiasm.
Requested when he begins specializing in subsequent season, Arteta stated: “Now, as a result of tomorrow we have already got some issues that we’re discussing and making selections.
“Every part that’s deliberate for preseason and the primary few weeks of the season has already been achieved two or three months in the past, so we are actually actually good.
“And the second I begin to consider that, I really feel goosebumps and pleasure, and this can be a actually good signal all the time.”
Arteta, banned from the touchline, sat alongside co-chair Josh Kroenke at St Mary’s on Sunday.
Martin Ødegaard scored the winner for Arsenal as they completed their season with a win, after Kieran Tierney netted the opener in what shall be his final sport for the membership.
“I am very pleased to complete [the season] successful the match,” Arteta stated. “We needed to depart that dressing room with a constructive vitality, with a very good vibe. We needed to say goodbye as nicely to some gamers that will not be with us subsequent season, that was fairly emotional as nicely, I feel they deserved their appreciation and a very good vibe round it.
“We have achieved it and now we will have loads of time to suppose, to analyse what occurs within the season, to study from it for positive, to take all of the unimaginable constructive issues that the group has achieved relating to the circumstances and suppose, okay, how can we now go into that little share that’s lacking to get the place we wish.”
Questioned on that “little share” and whether or not Arsenal shall be signing a striker to enhance, the Spaniard added: “With a view to obtain that, numerous issues need to occur. The group has to offer, that participant has to play a certain quantity of minutes and video games.
“Imagine me, we’re on it. We are going to attempt to squeeze and suppose and switch each stone that we presumably can, to make this membership much more profitable.”
Arteta additionally stated his gamers had been “100%” impressed by the ladies’s group, after their sudden Champions League overcome Barcelona on Saturday.
“We had been all watching it, we had been in two completely different buses on our journey to Southampton and we had been watching it and I feel it was unimaginable,” he stated.
“First, the best way they performed and the best way they performed towards that Barcelona group, I feel it was once more a case of that resilience, that character as a result of by way of the season they’ve had numerous points and the best way they’ve managed to show that round and win the Champions League, it is unbelievable.
“That is what we wish and so they’ve achieved it and so they’ve achieved it in a manner that represents the membership in an unimaginable manner.”