Mikel Arteta hopes Arsenal can next season help topple Man City at the top.
Mikel Arteta and technical director Edu did a solid job by signing the best players in the summer transfer window.
Head coach Mikel Arteta reckons record signing Declan Rice will be Arsenal’s “lighthouse”. The Gunners will look to win the Premier League in 2023/24.
They signed Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber but their best signing was Declan Rice who joined the Gunners with a British record deal worth around £105million.
Arsenal hope can next season help topple Man City at the top as they look to win their first league title since 2004.
“I see him like a lighthouse – that he is willing to put light in others and improve others and make the team better and that is a huge quality.”
“For me, to be a midfielder you have to have that and he’s got it 100 per cent.
“The way he talks and presents himself, the ambition he has and the passion towards the game. That is exactly what we needed.
“It’s his leadership, his aura, the experience he already has in the league he is going to bring and the team to a different dimension I think.”
“I think you all know his leadership, his personality, the experience that he already has at 24,” the Gunners boss said of Rice.
“Very smooth (transition into the group). He’s already very close already with a few of the boys, he obviously knew a few of the boys from the England camp as well. He seems very happy.”
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