Reports claim Mikel Arteta is in talks to sign a contract extension at Arsenal, as his current deal has just one season remaining.
Arteta has successfully guided the Gunners back to being one of the top Premier League clubs after several years of mediocrity.
The club took a gamble by appointing him as manager in 2019, given his lack of managerial experience at the time. However, he has proven to be a success and has even been linked with moves to clubs like Barcelona and PSG.
Despite these links, the former midfielder is content at Arsenal and is committed to remaining as their manager.
Arsenal is also keen to retain him and has been engaged in talks over an extension in recent weeks.
Fans are eager to learn when an agreement will be reached, and a report from Football Insider has provided some insight.
According to the report, talks are progressing positively, and both parties are satisfied with the ongoing discussions. Arteta is expected to sign a new deal before the start of next season.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Arteta is here to stay, at least for now, because he would hardly get a better club to join to get as much support as he has received from us so far.
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Hopefully next season after we have seen what he can bring to the club trophy wise .
5 – 6 years in surely any new and improved contract should be solely based on on that and not just talking a good game ,which he’s very good at .
let him earn his new contract .
I wonder where we would be now if the board had gone for Ancelotti over Arteta? At the time out board decided he was a spent flush and chose Arteta. Ancelotti went to Everton and had an underwhelming year, mainly because it was Everton. In the meantime he has won 2 leagues and 2 CLs while we have won praise for being runners up in the league. I think Arteta needs to start delivering, if he is good enough. Would Ancelotti have been a match for Pep?
Ancelotti at Arsenal in the EPL might have been a bit different to Ancelotti at Madrid in La Liga.. Right place at the right time kind of thing. Ancelotti went to Everton which was the wrong place at the wrong time at that juncture.
He could have flopped or been successful at Arsenal. That’s
A player or manager can work out at the right club, at the right moment etc..
There are so many managers that many Arsenal fans have been and continue to suggest would / could have done better than Arteta since 2020.
Everyone has had their preferred candidate, from:
Ancelotti
Tuchel
Conte
Potter
Howe
Ten Hag
Vieira
Nagelsmann
De Zerbi
Xabi Alonso etc..
My one was Pochettino..
It seems like “Flavour of the Season” type of thing. Whichever manager is doing well that season is then suggested as a better alternative than Arteta.. But then we move on to the next newest shiny manager in the next season while absolutely going quiet on our previous suggestions.
Then we do engage in retrospection / introspection by counting the Hits while ignoring the Misses.
It’s the same with player transfers. We all have certain players that we rate and hope the club buys them. But then when they do well at other club or flop we act differently. If they are successful elsewhere we then talk about how we were right to want them signed. But if they flop elsewhere we never talk about that. We ignore or forget about them.
Counting the Hits and ignoring the Misses.
I think there is a lot of truth in your post Goonster.
I didn’t know that not going with CA was because he was considered past it. I kept reading on JA that he wasn’t a man to do a rebuild, which was required at Arsenal. Water under the bridge now
We will never know. The main point being. From my understanding Ancelotti was Arsenals first choice for a long while. But they changed tact and decided he was over the hill. I think the guy is up there with Pep. Probably not as revolutionary but with his ability to win the top trophies. And longevity.
I don’t see a problem with trying to tie Arteta down. The salary stories whirling about are wildly excessive but based on the closeness of our runners up position and the reasonable run in the CL, it should be a given that he is well remunerated and offered a new deal.
Goonster was right to point out how quickly new names crop up. De Zerbi was the most recent and the season fizzled out at Brighton. At the moment I can’t see the point in trying to fix something that isn’t broken. If it does then Arteta will join a long line of former managers