Mikel Arteta happy with how things turned around at Arsenal

Arsenal had a rocky start to the Premier League this season.

The Gunners are on a good run after losing their first three Premier League games this campaign.

Mikel Arteta believes the progress that has been made in the last 18 months has been incredible.

“I think the task we had was immense,” Arteta admitted. “There were a lot of question marks how we could do it in a way that, first of all, we could afford, and we could have some immediate results with a big prospect for the future.

“The turnaround in the squad in 18 months has been incredible. It’s almost 19 players – that’s a whole new squad. It took a lot of decisions, but those decisions have been using the same uniform basics. That is: Do they represent what we want to do? Yes or no. If it’s a no, he cannot be here.

“I don’t have the feeling to tell somebody or expect something that I don’t feel, and I knew with the number of changes that we’ve been through at the club, from top to bottom, in the squad, that it was going to happen. If not, I would be lying.

“So I knew we were going to get a lot of stick saying that because in football you don’t have time. But if you want to build something with our resources and with the model that we have put in place, it takes time.”

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