Wenger sees great potential in Arteta. How will the biggest spending club of the summer fare?

Mikel Arteta was supposed to finally lead Arsenal back to the elite, but instead Gunners fans are experiencing great disappointment as even their beloved team finds itself at the very bottom of the Premier League. The good news, however, is that the only way from here is up, as was confirmed over the weekend.

Arsenal welcomed Norwich in the 4th league round and needed a win. After all, in the opening 3 rounds, the Spanish coach’s charges hadn’t scored a single goal, even in this statistic their opponent was better. However, the Gunners managed the match and got the first points in the table thanks to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s goal.

Thus, all Arsenal fans believe that the team will finally break out to better performances and will confirm this result in the next match against Burnley, which lost to Everton 3-1 on Monday.

Arsene Wenger, who has spent 22 years on the bench of the London club and logically is a big fan of the team, as well as Arteta, whom he has supported from the beginning, sees it similarly.

“I see great quality in the current squad. I’m certainly not pessimistic because they had two very tough opponents – Chelsea and Manchester City. I wish them to recover now and I think they can do it. They have a lot of potential, so I believe they will get back to winning ways,” the French coach said in an interview with beIN Sports about the current situation of the Gunners.

His words are confirmed by the money spent on summer reinforcements. No other team in Europe has spent as much money on new players as Arsenal! Arteta lured 19 players to London for a total of 166 million euros.

Even in terms of the club’s finances, it is mostly in negative figures, as the sold players brought only 31 million euros to the club’s coffers, thanks to which Arsenal ended the transfer summer with a balance of -135 million euros. PSG, for example, brought in a number of big signings for just €83 million.

But of course, it is still very early to make an assessment and only the next games will show whether Arteta had a lucky hand and whether he can handle the pressure that will be put on him because of his poor start.

On the positive side, he has two games against paper-weaker opponents Burnley (Premier League) and AFC Wimbledon (Carabao Cup), but on September 26 his charges will face a big derby with Tottenham.

Source: beIN Sports, Transfermarkt