Mikel Arteta claims big players risk Arsenal exit if no Champions League football

The Gunners don’t play in the UCL this season.

And they were recently knocked out of the Europa League as well.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has admitted the club might face an exodus if they don’t qualify for the Champions League next season. The Gunners have missed on qualifying for the Champions League in the last three seasons and there is a good chance they could miss out again this term.

“The damage caused by the club not being in the Champions League for the third season is really big,” Arteta said during a press conefrence. Financially the impact is enormous because the structure of this club is built to be in the Champions League and you can sustain that for one year or two, but then after you have to start making decisions.

“So we will have to make decisions one way or the other depending on the scenario we find ourselves in, whether we are in the Champions League, Europa League or nowhere near that. And we’ll have a very clear plan of what we want to do and depending where we are we have to act like this.”

The likes of the captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bukayo Saka are out of contract in 2021, while there remains constant speculation that Alexandre Lacazette and Mesut Ozil could leave the club.

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