Football Daily | What Factors Will Emerge To Stop Arsenal Winning The Premier League This Time?

AND NOW YOU’RE GUNNER BELIEVE US?

The past clip Arsenal notched up 3 consecutive second-place finishes successful nan apical flight, they went connected to triumph nan convention reasonably comfortably nan pursuing season, beating Liverpool by 7 points. With Mikel Arteta now successful Phase 19 of nan five-phase scheme he embarked connected to found his broadside arsenic champions, trophy-hungry fans of nan nine will beryllium hoping he tin emulate his predecessor, Arsène Wenger, by masterminding a successful title tilt aft back-to-back-to-back finishes arsenic runners-up. During his clip astatine Arsenal, Arteta has near virtually nary chromatic unturned successful his attempts to maximise nan imaginable of his squad, utilizing opposing team’s anthems, a squad of pickpockets, a longwinded metaphor involving lightbulbs, a training crushed labrador, a vessel of lemons and an oliva character successful his arsenic yet unsuccessful efforts to get them complete nan statement and connected to nan Premier League winners’ podium successful May.

Of people pinch each passing nonaccomplishment there’s ever “next season” and for impatient Arsenal fans whose squad has now won nan quadrate guidelines of nish-all successful 5 years, they are presently surviving successful those heady days of optimism wherever nan type calamities visited upon them past play person been boxed disconnected and temporarily forgotten, while those of adjacent play person yet to make themselves known. While it is wide accepted that Arsenal’s inability to triumph nan title successful 2024-25 was down to a operation of factors including knack, a refereeing conspiracy and nan insignificant item that Liverpool were overmuch amended than them, Arsenal’s apparently shrewd and early dealings successful nan transportation marketplace mean that among their fans location is simply a emotion – overmuch for illustration location ever is – that their clip has yet come.

In bringing successful six caller players, only 1 of whom prompted respective 1000 weirdos among nan club’s fanbase to motion an existent petition voicing their disquiet astatine his presence connected nan grounds he isn’t bully enough, Arteta appears to person signed shrewdly, early and well. Meanwhile successful position of homegrown talent, nan emergence of nan young Max Dowman arsenic a genuinely breathtaking game-changer is simply a origin for existent excitement, not slightest because Football Daily has respective T-shirts and a brace of jeans successful our wardrobe that are older than nan latest prodigy to rotation disconnected nan Emirates assembly line.

“Let’s spot really it goes,” said Arteta, erstwhile asked if nan 15-year-old would beryllium getting minutes successful nan Premier League this play aft different awesome pre-season showing successful conclusion against Villarreal. “Let’s spell into Saturday, into nan break arsenic well. He needs a small break arsenic good because he hasn’t had immoderate holidays, really.” Next up for Arsenal is different friends against Athletic Bilbao this weekend, earlier they get their latest effort to triumph nan Premier League up and moving pinch a group of six opening games against Manchester United (a), Leeds (h), Liverpool (a), Nottingham Forest (h), Manchester City (h) and Newcastle (a) that suggests nan latest crippled to foil them has been hatched by nary different than nan fixture generator.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

It’s a dream travel true. LA - what a city. If I’m honest, it was not my first prime … but [LAFC co-chief suit] John [Thorrington] changed my mind, changed my heart, my brain” – Son Heung-min connected nan powers of persuasion that led made him determine that a move to nan USA USA USA was what he wanted aft all. After being asked if he could triumph nan World Cup for nan USA USA USA, he mightiness beryllium having doubts again.

The Son ever shines successful LA. Photograph: Ariana Ruiz/PI/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

An owner, a scout, an supplier and a subordinate spell into an (unredacted) barroom (yesterday’s Still Want More? – afloat email edition). The scout says ‘Mine’s a pint’. The supplier says ‘Mine’s a pint’. The proprietor says ‘I’m buying, what’s yours Harry?’ The subordinate says ‘My name’s not Harry’” – Max Maxwell.

Come on, that’s ne'er Cristiano Ronaldo (yesterday’s Memory Lane – afloat email edition). Me thinks there’s a spot of penny pinching astatine Madame Tussauds and they’ve conscionable whacked a Portugal kit connected to a surplus to requirements Jacob from Twilight model” – David Bell.

Sympathies for John Millard for his missive o’ nan time prize. No offence to Football Weekly, but dreck merch? Make excavation a prizeless missive o’ nan Day” – Steve Mintz.

His liking successful nominative determinism made maine wonderment what Harry Piano (yesterday’s letters) does for a living. After asking generative AI for an illustration of Hairy Piano astatine work, I’ve decided I would really alternatively not know” – Dan Davis.

Just a short, tear-stained statement astir Son Heung-min’s profession successful England. He went to Germany very young and without a connection of German. England, very young, without a connection of English and successful a precocious unit world successful which Asian footballers, fewer successful number, were mostly disregarded, looked down connected arsenic being not reliable enough, large capable aliases moreover man enough. Perhaps awesome stamina and moving mightiness beryllium mentioned, nan ‘praise’ fixed to Park Ji-sung who deserved overmuch much appreciation. To play astatine world people level for half a twelve of his years astatine Spurs, to lead them astatine past to a European trophy, to triumph a Golden Boot pinch immoderate wondrous goals (with nary penalty-taking because of Kane), to triumph nan Puskas prize pinch that astonishing tally and decorativeness astatine Burnley, to beryllium Asian footballer of nan twelvemonth truthful often, skipper of his nationalist squad and to toggle shape nan full floor plan of nan athletics successful his location state and possibly beyond, that is an bonzer accomplishment … what a man, what a player” – Michael Gilsenan.

If you person any, please nonstop letters to the.boss@theguardian.com. Today’s victor of our missive o’ nan time is … Steve Mintz Michael Gilsenan, who lands immoderate Football Weekly merch. Terms and conditions for our competitions are here.

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