Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - Sport - Arsenal Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeMike Arteta claims Arsenal’s decline started five years ago - and insisted he is still the manager to turn things around. But Arteta has warned it was always going to be a long term rebuilding job because they started falling behind from when they started finishing outside of the Champions League places under previous boss Arsene Wenger. Gunners manager Arteta said: “We have not been competing with the top clubs in this country for five years. "It is not as if this process started six months ago – it started five years ago and you can see this trend.

Source: Daily Mirror May 07, 2021 21:30 UTC