Arsenal board urged to stick with Mikel Arteta next season

Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke should back Arteta for another season.

The North London club might miss out on European football for the first time in 25 years.

After their defeat against Villarreal in the Europa League semi-final, Mikel Arteta received heavy backlash amid sack concerns.

Former Man United midfielder Lee Sharpe has asked the Arsenal board to back the Spaniard for one more season and reassess the situation after that.

“If Arteta gets sacked, who do Arsenal bring in, and do they create better results? I’m not too sure,” Sharpe told Genting Bet.

“I think the Arsenal situation is not something that’s happened overnight, I think it’s happened since Arsene Wenger’s left – Manchester United have been through a similar thing since Alex Ferguson left.

“They’ve just not got it right. The best thing to do would be to give Arteta time – I don’t know him personally, but I think his experience of working with Pep, I think the way he played the game – he’s a knowledgeable man, he’s an intellectual man, he’s a football man, and I give him a couple of quid to spend this summer.

“Give him a couple of quid to spend in the January window, then give him another full season, see where he goes and reassess, but I think if you sack him now, you’re just back to square one – and you have the same process all over again, so I would give him a bit of time.”

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