Arsenal’s 1-0 win over rivals Man Metropolis on the weekend has actually put the cat amongst the pigeons at this early stage of the Premier League title race.
It positioned a marker down for Mikel Arteta that, this time, the Gunners aren’t going to fade away like they did final season. That they’re now not there for the taking within the largest video games.
The victory meant that they went joint prime of the desk with north London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they’ve an equivalent report and purpose distinction however are positioned second by advantage of the truth that Spurs have scored 18 objectives – two greater than Arsenal.
Due to some very good enterprise in the summertime switch window, Arteta’s aspect look significantly better geared up to maintain a title problem this season, and so long as accidents to key gamers don’t begin to chunk as they did throughout 2022/23, there’s each motive to consider that they’ll be there or thereabouts on the enterprise finish.
There’s clearly one place the place the supervisor needs to strengthen, nevertheless, and that’s up entrance.
In line with TeamTalk, the north Londoners are in energetic negotiations with Brentford’s Ivan Toney, who’s reported to be considering becoming a member of the membership as soon as his ban from the sport has been served.
That might doubtlessly enable him to affix the Bees London rivals in January and play the fullest half in bringing Arsenal their first English top-flight title in twenty years.
