Mikel Arteta will finally put an end to this disastrous season for Arsenal next weekend when they take on Brighton and Hove Albion at the Emirates Stadium.
This has been clearly the worst season for the Gunners in this century as they are currently ninth on the league table and at best they could climb up to the sixth spot. But for that to happen, the three teams above them will have to lose all their remaining matches.
In reality, the Gunners look all set to miss out on European football next season meaning they have to brace themselves for a really tough summer window. And speaking about the blueprint for the next couple of months, Mikel Arteta has explained what he plans to do once the 2020-21 season gets over.
“I want to reflect now, in the next week or so when we finish but I’m sure we’ve done a couple of things wrong, 100 per cent now I can tell you that now before going through it,” Arteta said on Tuesday.
“So how am I going to make much better decisions and get the best out of these players and get the best out of this football club and all the resources that we have? I have spent a lot of time and effort identifying critical points to change and then how those changes are going to be made, in which timeframe we could do them and I want to spend time building, creating and with all the foundations that we have in place now, evolving the club and everything in the way that we want to do.
“I want a pre-season where we can work with the players and create. I’m a really creative person, I really want to create and evolve and a lot of the time since I’ve come here, I’ve been determined to make some very, very difficult decisions that I have to do.
“But I want to start doing more and more and more, because the capacity that we have to do it is incredible. I am so excited about that and I see that moment of a lot of change as a big opportunity for our future.”
The first thing Mikel Arteta needs to do is to chalk out a definite game plan for his players for the next season because this time around even the manager did not know what style of football to play for the entirety of the season. Sometimes, Arsenal were playing a 4-3-3 system, something a 4-2-3-1 and abruptly the manager would even deploy a false nine formation, that too in really key matches.
Also, Mikel Arteta will have to reinforce a number of departments in his first-team squad and he will have to do it in a really shoe-string budget now that Arsenal are not going to be in Europe.
Some rumours have claimed that the management could look to part ways with Arteta once the season gets over but various reliable sources are of the view that the Spaniard will be given time to sort things out.
