Arsenal fans will be hopeful of a successful summer transfer window after narrowly missing out on Champions League qualification last season.
Following back-to-back eighth-placed finishes for the Gunners under Mikel Arteta, it was a much more respectable fifth-place finish in the 2021/22 campaign. Although having been in control of the top-four race heading into the final three games, not sealing a return to Europe's elite club competition will have been a bitter pill to swallow.
Having gone so close only to fall at the final hurdle with injuries and a loss of form to key players at a crucial stage of the season proving to be Arsenal's undoing when things were all said and done, it simply highlights the task facing Arteta and technical director Edu this summer.
