Arteta: Players ready to restart title push as Arsenal face Wolves

As the new Premier League season kicks off, Mikel Arteta is eager to identify areas for improvement both on and off the pitch to propel the team to new heights in their pursuit of the title. The campaign begins at home in N5 with the visit of Wolves, and the goal is to secure a flawless start with a crucial three points.

Following an impressive streak of 16 wins in their last 18 league matches, Mikel Arteta’s players have been itching to start the new season since the final whistle blew in their victory against Everton last May, signaling the end of the previous campaign.

“We are really excited,” Mikel said. “We’ve been missing the competition for many weeks, it’s too long for us. We are so willing to start and so enthusiastic about it.

“On the last day [of the season], we had a gathering together with all the club players and they were coming to me and saying: ‘we are going to do it next year, we are going to be better, we want more.’ And when you see that you accept they’re the ones driving that ambition so that’s always possible.

“It’s like you’re trying to climb the highest mountain. It’s the most difficult league in the world and you feel surrounded by a lot of people who have the same ambition every single day to achieve it. We’re certainly going to try.”

When asked about what we need to do to become champions, he suggested: “Break more of those records again and earn more points because it won’t be enough. With the level that we are competing with, every season is getting harder. We are going to have to improve again for sure.

“I don’t know what perfect is, but it has to be very close to the numbers we’ve seen in recent years. The demands that we put on them internally have to be much higher than anyone can put on us in any position that we feel the pressure. That’s the level that we have to hit every single day here – if we do that then our levels will increase and everybody will benefit.

“When you see everything that we are doing and everybody is so enthusiastic about it, that willingness to improve, to get better, to keep pushing each other, to look for higher ceilings. What I think everybody needs is motivating every day, something new to look. We have created that culture and I want to keep going.”