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Andrew Feinberg
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Mikel Arteta has signed a brand new three-year contract with Arsenal, committing his future to the membership till 2027.
The Spaniard, who has been in cost since late 2019, had entered the ultimate 12 months of his earlier deal in the beginning of the season.
Arteta has helped remodeled Arsenal’s ambitions since changing Unai Emery, main the membership to Premier League title challenges in every of the final two seasons.
Though the Gunners fell quick to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester Metropolis in each years, Arsenal completed the final two seasons on 84 and 89 factors – their highest totals since final successful the title below Arsene Wenger in 2004.
Arteta was an assistant to Guardiola at Manchester Metropolis, successful two Premier League titles, and will have been seen as a pure substitute by the present champions. Guardiola has entered his ninth season at Metropolis and the ultimate 12 months of his contract.
Arteta was additionally beforehand linked with Barcelona, the place he grew up enjoying within the membership’s academy, however he shut down these rumours as “faux information” final season.
Whereas Arteta entered the final season of his contract, the 42-year-old informed Arsenal followers to not “panic” and defined that his focus had been on the switch window relatively than his personal future.
And the Spaniard has now prolonged his keep on the Emirates, providing an enormous increase to Arsenal as they appear to go one step additional and finish their lengthy Premier League title drought.
He stated: “I really feel extraordinarily proud, very excited and am wanting ahead to what’s coming subsequent. I’m proud to be the place I’m and have the relationships that I’ve with everybody on the membership.
“I really feel extraordinarily fortunate to work each single day with good folks and the ambition we’ve right here. I really feel very impressed, I really feel challenged, I really feel supported and I need to do way more than what we’ve already performed collectively.
“Along with the gamers and everybody on the membership, we’re wanting ahead to the approaching years, with our supporters, who’ve emotionally remodeled the membership and the crew. Our supporters have remodeled people and we’re totally different now. You may inform that we’re totally different and for me, that’s right down to them. We stay up for persevering with the journey collectively.”
Arteta received the FA Cup on the finish of his first season season in cost in August 2020 after which returned the Gunners to the Champions League in 2022 following a seven-year absence. Final season, Arteta led Arsenal to a club-record 28 wins within the Premier League as they completed two factors behind champions Metropolis.
“We’re actually blissful that Mikel has signed a brand new long-term contract,” Arsenal’s sporting director Edu stated. “It’s a really optimistic and proud second for everybody on the membership and an necessary a part of what we’re all working in direction of.
“Mikel has proven his qualities because the very first day he joined us, not solely as a soccer supervisor, however as an individual with great values. Now we have a powerful perception in what we’re doing and what we need to obtain collectively. Mikel’s new contract provides us stability and clear route as we intention for brand spanking new heights.”
