{"id":756177,"date":"2026-09-01T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:36:10","slug":"mikel-arteta-arsenal-boss-joins-elite-list-of-managers-but-where-does-he-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756177\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta: Arsenal boss joins elite list of managers, but where does he rank?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> have one of the best squads in Europe. <\/p>\n

The Gunners spent \u00a3250m last summer bringing in eight players as they won the title and have already spent about \u00a3200m this year, turning Piero Hincapie’s loan deal into a permanent one (\u00a334.5m), signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United<\/a> (\u00a375m), Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge (\u00a334m) and bringing in Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa<\/a> (\u00a355m).<\/p>\n

“That is what we need,” Arteta said, speaking to Sky Sports when asked about his squad depth.<\/p>\n

“The players that come in make the difference. All of them contributed to create more dominance and more momentum.<\/p>\n

“The level of focus and the way they want to contribute to the team, that is going to be decisive in the season.”<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a>‘s strength in depth cannot be understated, but one area they may still look to strengthen in is the forward area.<\/p>\n

The Gunners have been on the hunt for an elite forward to lift their attack and still could be active on Tuesday’s deadline day.<\/p>\n

They had an unsuccessful pursuit of Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr, while they also have a long-standing interest in Atletico Madrid striker Julian Alvarez.<\/p>\n

“We are trying to improve the squad and until tomorrow night we will try to do it,” Arteta said.<\/p>\n

“I have been disconnected from the world for the last 24 hours because my energy has to be on the match, but I will get back on it now.”<\/p>\n

When pushed about a deal for Alvarez, Arteta said: “I don’t know, that’s for the people upstairs.”<\/p>\n

Whatever happens in Arsenal<\/a>‘s search, they are going to be hard to keep off the top of the table with Arteta at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have one of the best squads in Europe. The Gunners spent \u00a3250m last summer bringing in eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}