Mikel Arteta has challenged his Arsenal players to become serial winners as they continue competing with Manchester City in the Premier League title race.
The north London club won the FA Cup during the Spaniard's first season in charge, beating his former employers City at the semi-final stage, and subsequently lifted the Community Shield, winning a penalty shootout against Liverpool, to start the next campaign, but have gone consecutive seasons without silverware since then. A first Premier League title in 19 years would be an emphatic way of ending both droughts.
Arteta topped the table twice while one of Pep Guardiola's assistant managers in east Manchester but lack players who have done similar in the squad aside from Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, who were recruited from City last summer. The Arsenal manager wants that winning to happen in north London, starting with this season's title.
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“You have to win a lot (before being among the best players in Europe),” Arteta explains. “They know that, they know to be at that level, they have to win. And after winning, you have to win again. After winning again, you have to win again and again and again. That’s it. That’s what these guys have been doing for such a long time.”
Arteta added: “That is the most beautiful thing in a football club, to have the opportunity actually to win things. That should bring excitement, that has to bring you alive because it’s there and ‘now I want it’. And it’s now how much you want it.
“I have full trust in them (Arsenal players), and they have given me every reason to believe that they are ready to do that and that when an opportunity comes they are going to take it.”
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