Arteta discusses maintaining consistent and next seasons hopes

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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta discusses maintaining consistent and next seasons hopes  09/05/2025  Sobha Realty Training Ground, London, UK

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00:00You've been able to play over 30 games in the Premier League,

00:04only five of yours through injuries and other things.

00:09Does that tell its story in itself for this season?

00:13That they had a greater consistency of selection?

00:17For whatever reason, you were unable to match that.

00:21Do you think that was a factor in the final?

00:23But that's a big thing to win trophies, you know,

00:26and they've done that extremely well.

00:28And they have managed to maintain that consistency,

00:32that level of players, a system, a coach,

00:35a stadium that has created, again, an incredible atmosphere consistently for them.

00:40So you need a lot of ingredients if you don't win the Premier League.

00:44And that's the difficulty of it.

00:46And it's true that this season we never found that consistency

00:50because of the issues that we had.

00:52But I don't want to use it as an excuse, that's for sure.

00:56Because we're the same thing, we were the only team.

00:58We have the best league in the world, yeah?

01:00We all agree.

01:01We were the only team in the semi-finals.

01:05That's the level.

01:07Sorry, I wasn't suggesting...

01:09No, I know, I know, I know.

01:11I know, I know.

01:13I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.

01:15As an issue, does that suggest that you need to have a squad that's maybe more of a bust?

01:24Is it a training issue?

01:27Is it just the fact that towards the end of this season

01:30you couldn't make the changes you would have liked to make

01:33because those players weren't available to come on the pitch?

01:38Is it in that sort of pinch point of the last six weeks?

01:42Is that when it really counts?

01:44It's a lot of factors to that.

01:45We knew from the beginning of the season that our squad was super short.

01:49And being super short, we have some players with high probability of injury

01:55because that's what they had in the last few seasons.

01:59So we knew that and we could not do anything about it.

02:02Liverpool have won the league pretty comfortably in the end.

02:07Without Arnyslopp changing too much,

02:10I mean the team is pretty much the team that you have in the club have for a couple of years,

02:16but they have played with maybe more control this season than under Klopp.

02:21You're very much a controlled team.

02:24You control a lot of matches.

02:29Is there a moment when you have to go beyond that to win?

02:33Or does Liverpool prove that actually just keep doing what you've done,

02:37keep knocking on the door,

02:39and eventually it must open because of what you've got at the baseline?

02:45Well, at the end they've done what Arnyslopp has done.

02:48They've been very intelligent.

02:49They have all the platform.

02:50It is a team that has been competing and winning trophies

02:53throughout the last ten years.

02:54It's nothing new.

02:55So he's added his values.

02:57I think he maintained a lot of the things.

02:59He's always given his fingerprints to a lot of things that are very, very good as well.

03:04And the most important thing, he got the best out of the players.

03:07And the players that have to make the difference,

03:09they were there constantly making the difference for them.

03:12And that's capital to win any major trophy.

03:16People do say that if you spend the most and you have the biggest wage bill,

03:20you're going to win.

03:22Do you want to do it a different way?

03:24Or would you like to have the biggest wage bill?

03:27It's not different.

03:28I think we have to do it our way and we have to be authentic with ourselves

03:32and what we believe and what we can do as well and what we've been doing.

03:36That's it.

03:37Thanks, Martin.

03:38Last cover from John Westbrook.

03:39Hi.

03:40Five years ago, you won the cup and Liverpool won the title,

03:44but neither of you could celebrate because of COVID.

03:47They finally had their part.

03:49Does that inspire you and make you feel a bit envious?

03:53Is that something you really want?

03:56Yeah.

03:57Yes, big time.

03:58I really want it because that's what this club needs

04:03and that this club is so close to achieving it

04:06and now we need to make it happen.

04:08We talked about that many times

04:10and I will continue for sure with the same drive or more

04:14to try it till we achieve it.

04:16Just the fact that all your direct rivals have won something

04:23before Newcastle or a game away from winning something,

04:27does that make this season even more fittersweet?

04:30Or does it not matter what other clubs do?

04:34Well, obviously they win the competition that you want to win,

04:37yes, but after that it's not in our hands.

04:41Does it matter to an Arsenal manager what Spurs do, for example?

04:45For me, I have enough looking at my own garden.

04:48Thank you, John.

04:50Given that you've got such a good platform…

04:54Last one.

04:55This is the last one.

04:56Can we expect this summer to be a huge spending summer

05:01on two or three absolute quality players?

05:04You've got everything else.

05:06We will do everything that we can to improve the team

05:09and especially to improve the players that we already have

05:12whatever the market offers that we can make ourselves better

05:15and give ourselves, again, a better chance to win.

05:18For sure, we'll try to do it.

05:22Thanks, guys.

05:23Good job.

05:24Good job, sir.

05:25Good job, sir.

05:26Good job, sir.

05:29Well, thank you very much.

05:35Thank you very much.

05:37Yeah.

05:41that she said.

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