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Arteta Urges Arsenal to Target World’s Best Team Status

By Hugo Brennan

Arteta Urges Arsenal to Target World’s Best Team Status

SEO Title: Arteta sets Arsenal ambition after Premier League title

SEO Description: Mikel Arteta says Arsenal must aim to become the world’s best club after winning the Premier League and reaching last season’s Champions League final.

Mikel Arteta has set Arsenal an even larger target after a season in which the north London club won the Premier League and reached the Champions League final: becoming the best club in the world.

Arteta raises the bar at Arsenal

The Arsenal manager has made clear that last season’s domestic title and European final are not being treated as a finishing line. Instead, they have strengthened the club’s belief that it belongs among the game’s leading sides.

Arteta said his ambition is to turn Arsenal into “the best club in the world”, a challenge that leaves little room for comfort after a campaign which put silverware in the cabinet and took the team to the brink of Europe’s biggest prize.

For Arsenal, the task now is to carry that standard from one season to the next. A Premier League crown brings expectation as well as celebration, while a Champions League final tends to make the next fixture feel rather more serious.