Arteta has claimed that Arsenal need more time to adapt to his philosophy.
“What I can tell you is I am really proud to manage this football club at the moment and really happy with how everyone is reacting around the club,” he said.
“The players – the passion and energy they are showing every day and the same with the staff and everybody who works here. We have a lot of things to improve and it feels like it was eight months ago but it was not that far away.
“We have a long way to go in this process, to develop a lot of things that I want to implement. We need time. I don’t want to accelerate the process and take them somewhere they cannot do because it would not be productive.
“We have to maintain the things we do good and maybe then we have little margins of improvement that we have to aim to achieve.”
“The attitude I want the players to play with is to confront the opponent,” he added. “It does not matter where we play, we have to go there and we have to face them.
“We have to feel that we are ready to go, not just when we have the ball but when we don’t have it as well, with the same attitude and aggression.
“They are doing it. I can only praise them because they are trying hard – sometimes we can be better or worse but they are very willing.
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