Arsenal legend Ray Parlour says ‘there’s one thing fallacious’ on the membership in the event that they don’t safe a high 4 end this season.
Supervisor Mikel Arteta is below stress to ship a return to Champions League soccer after one other summer season of huge spending, ensuing within the strongest Gunners aspect on paper for years.
Arsenal have spent round £75million to land Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko from Man Metropolis this summer season, and each new arrivals are set to be given their debuts for the membership in Friday night time’s season opener at Crystal Palace – LIVE and FREE on talkSPORT.
Parlour has been massively impressed by his former membership’s summer season enterprise, saying Arteta has added ‘confirmed winners’ to his squad which can make a giant distinction of their quest to enhance on final time period’s fifth place end.
However, with a touch of pessimism creeping in, the Invincibles hero admits one other high 4 failure will trace at a deeper-lying drawback at Arsenal than the standard of gamers on the pitch.
“There’s stress on each supervisor within the Premier League, however there’s extra stress on Arteta,” Parlour instructed the talkSPORT Breakfast.
“Arsenal simply failed final season, they usually spent a great deal of cash this summer season.
“So one thing goes fallacious on the membership in the event that they’re getting the best gamers in they usually’re nonetheless not successful video games.
“I’m always optimistic with Arsenal, but they always seem to do something wrong, something goes wrong during the season and it all goes pear-shaped.
“But, I think the signings have been very good, I must admit. Jesus is a fantastic signing, Zinchenko, these are proven winners.
“But Arteta understands the pressure he’s under. He is a player who has been there and he’s been under managers who are under pressure, so he knows he’s under pressure to get in the top four.
“There is pressure on every manager. Conte is under pressure at Spurs to get a trophy… that’s the whole point of being a football manager. They are realistic people, they’re on good money and they know they’ve got to deliver every single season.
“I think Arteta is very confident of what Arsenal will achieve this season, and if the manager is confident, the players will go into the season confident as well.”
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