Mikel Arteta has promised the Gunners family that Arsenal will improve the squad to challenge for all titles in the 2025-26 season. Arsenal have be
Mikel Arteta has promised the Gunners family that Arsenal will improve the squad to challenge for all titles in the 2025-26 season.
Arsenal have been so close to the league title in the last three seasons. Second-placed finishes in the last two years have boosted the confidence of the fans with many expecting a first Premier League title over two decades soon.
In a bid to achieve that, Arsenal must strengthen the squad, especially their attack. The Gunners have lacked a bonafide number 9 for almost 5 seasons, and it is one of the few reasons why they have failed to challenge Manchester City and Liverpool for the league title.
When Arteta was speaking at the first media meeting of the new sporting director, Andrea Bertha, Arteta revealed that the impending transfer window will be a big one for the club.
“We want to increase the depth of the squad, but as well, we want to increase the quality and the skills that we need to go to the next step,” said Arteta. “It’s going to be a big one [summer] and we are very excited about it.”
“In the beginning, there were a lot of players with three-, four- or five-year contracts, so the turnaround of the squad and how you visualise the next three, four, five years, is very dependent on what is going to happen here [with those players],” said Arteta.
“So I think they were very different [windows, compared to this summer]. The way you start to evolve, you start to master certain things and compete for certain things, and then the changes cannot be that much. That’s where we are. The line is now thinner; the margins are smaller. But the cost of that, as well, increases.”
“It’s a big summer for many things because, first of all, we have to maintain the good foundations that we have,” said Arteta. “And then obviously, how can we improve and evolve the team?”
Arsenal is planning to sign Sporting Lisbon’s Swedish striker Viktor Gyokeres. Spain’s Martin Zubimendi is also a big target for the club.
Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams, Espanyol’s number-one goalkeeper Joan Garcia and Norwegian teenager Sverre Nypan, who was a huge target in the January transfer window, are also on Arteta’s list.
RB Leipzig’s Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko and Newcastle United’s red-hot Swedish superstar Alexander Isak are also options this summer.
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