Former Liverpool defender and outstanding TV pundit Jamie Carragher warned that Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta may face the sack if he would not “win one thing large” subsequent season.
After consecutive second-placed Premier League finishes to Manchester Metropolis, the Gunners once more got here up brief of their tilt on the top-flight title, with Liverpool scooping the crown this season.
Arteta additionally led Arsenal to their first Champions League semi-final in 16 years, however misplaced each legs to Paris Saint-Germain to verify one other trophy-less marketing campaign. The one main piece of silverware received throughout his close to six years on the helm was the 2020 FA Cup lower than six months after his appointment. Arteta, nonetheless, would additionally level to the pair of Neighborhood Shields received in 2020 and 2023.
Within the aftermath of Arsenal’s spirited 2-2 draw away to Liverpool on Sunday afternoon, Carragher mirrored on one other marketing campaign of close to misses for the Gunners. “This season felt prefer it ought to have been their season,” the 2005 Champions League winner lamented in his capability as a Sky Sports activities pundit. “There is not any doubt subsequent season that the strain might be on Mikel Arteta massively by way of profitable one thing and profitable one thing large.
“The Arsenal board, if they do not [win a major trophy], could have an enormous difficulty as a result of they will not need to change their supervisor, however there might be that many individuals saying: 5 – 6 years with out a trophy. They are going to be what number of managers could make that subsequent step.”
Whereas Arsenal‘s trophy cupboard could not have been dramatically altered below his watch, Arteta has remodeled a membership which was teetering on the point of persistent mediocrity again in 2019. The previous midfielder inherited a facet eleventh within the Premier League desk with a detrimental aim distinction and has since oversee two of the 4 highest factors totals in Arsenal’s trendy historical past.
As Carragher himself conceded, Arteta has carried out a “sensible job”. “Arsenal may simply turn out to be what Chelsea are proper now. They might go from a group coming second yr in, yr out to a group that does not really get into the Champions League.
“[Changing managers] is the large conundrum that Arsenal as a soccer membership could have in 12 months, if Arsenal go shut once more do not really get throughout the road.”
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