The biggest task facing Mikel Arteta this summer will be to change the mood music at the Emirates.
If you had asked most Arsenal fans before the start of the season - and again after starting the 2021/22 campaign with three Premier League straight defeats - if they would be happy with fifth place, they would have bitten your hand off. But having got themselves into fourth place and within touching distance of the Champions League, then it finished in disappointment after the end-of-season defeats at Tottenham and Newcastle.
That is the frustration. Fourth was there for the taking, it would have been a game changer… and Arsenal blew it. That says much about the depth of squad, leadership and experience which are all issues which must be addressed this summer.
