Arsenal have been compared to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool as they aim to take a wrecking ball to Manchester City 's Premier League domination. The Gunners have been City’s biggest challengers over the last two seasons, fading badly at the end of 2022/23 but taking the title fight to the final day last term. Hopes are high that 2024/25 could finally be the season that sees Mikel Arteta ’s side deliver on their promise and become champions.
It’s been a steady building process for Arteta and sporting director Edu, who have strengthened the squad in key areas. Gunners legend Emmanuel Petit believes his former club are taking the same gradual steps as Liverpool under Klopp, who took almost four years to win his first trophy at Anfield, the Champions League in 2019. The floodgates then opened, with the Premier League following the year after and a domestic cup double in 2022.
Before Arsenal's emergence, the Reds were City’s closest challengers in the league. “Something really important, in the transfer market, the way they have been working since Arteta arrived with Edu, I think they are doing a great job,” Petit exclusively told Mirror Football. “That reminds me what Klopp did when he took over Liverpool, [fitting] pieces after pieces.
He had a vision of how he wanted the team to play and changed position after position. “This is the way big clubs work. Real Madrid work in the same way.
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