A bad start to the season for the Gunners could end up really good for the club, according to Arteta, who insists he can see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel at Emirates Stadium.
A little about the topic
Arsenal finished at the bottom of the Premier League standings after the first three games of the 2021-22 campaign, following a 2-0 reversal of the opening day in newly lifted Brentford with a 2-0 home defeat to Chelsea and a 5-0 bang at the hands of Man City. As a result, questions were raised about Mikel Arteta’s position at the club, but West Brom’s morale-boosting 6-0 drabbing in the second round of the EFL Cup eased some of the pressure on the Spaniard, who then saw his side pick up their first top flight win against Norwich in last weekend.
What did Mikel Arteta say?
The Gunners still have a lot to prove before they can be considered a formidable force again, but Mikel is confident that the long-term project he oversaw will soon begin to take shape. At a press conference on Thursday, the Arsenal boss said he did see the light. Mikel Arteta says he is very positive most of the time. Mikel saw light and sees bright lights. There may be bumps in the road in this light, but sees a lot of light.
Mikel added about how he dealt with the criticism that came his way after losing in the City that life brings you things and you can’t work it out. There are certain things that you cannot control. What comes to you comes for a reason. Sometimes they don’t want to see it, but it’s not just happening — and probably for the right reason. Then it’s about how you take it and how you react to it. The path that everyone around has responded to is the path that Mikel answered. That’s why everything was fine.
It’s hard because it hurts, because you want to see something else. But what you want is not always what happens. Things happen for a reason, and maybe what happens has to happen, and maybe it will be really good for the club and really good for Mikel and everyone else who is experiencing this situation. They have to believe it.