Gary Breen

And that will be the concern and countered with the fact that defensive shift at Saka and whoever is in that front three, Barrett, Trossard, they've worked so hard defensively that they probably use the maximum of their energy defending as opposed to going forward.

So there definitely has to be a rethink in terms of what Arteta has done, which ultimately the whole scale of it in terms of what he's done as a manager is incredible.

Now,

Even if they didn't get over the line, I know there's a massive parade there in North London today.

Even if they did not win that Premier League, I still don't think he should be sacked.

I know people are saying, listen, he's had a long time.

I still wasn't along those thinkings, but I think the board would have been come under so much pressure because I think the fans will be going,

This isn't good enough.

We can't get over the line.

And those comparisons to say what people used to mention about Gareth Southgate couldn't get England over the line is nonsense because Southgate has a production line of top quality players that he could choose from immediately as the England manager.

Whereas when Arteta took over that Arsenal squad, and I paraphrase, Edu as a sporting director said, Arsenal have too many 27, 28-year-olds who don't win enough, who don't win anything.

They're overpaid.

and underachieved so they have to really kind of really overhaul that squad and he's managed to do that you the comparison that I was looking at for this summer in terms of what they did last year was what Liverpool did they had they made those three batch of signings over three windows which elevated the team with Van Dijk all those different players coming in and you felt that last summer was the opportunity now get the number nine get the creative number 10 a midfielder

And yet they still play that kind of attritional defensive style of football.

So it's still work to be done at Arsenal.

It's always difficult because, by nature, Arteta is always going to be kind of more defensive-minded in terms of making sure that they're set at the back.

But you're quite right because you just couldn't see.

I like Ramos as a centre-forward.

He's very different to Dembele in terms of that rotational movement and stuff like that.

But as soon as Dembele went off, Varetskeli as well, you did feel that their two best attacking outlets were gone.