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Mikel Arteta admitted 100 points could be needed to wrest the Premier League title from Manchester City next season.
Arsenal lost just one league game in 2024 and finished with 89 points, but still failed to lift their first title since 2004.
Arteta was Pep Guardiola’s assistant at Manchester City between 2016 and 2019 and knows exactly how high his standards are.
When asked if 100 points would be needed to win the title, he said: “Yes. I was there when we got 100 points, so I know what it takes. I know what happened and this is the level.
“No one has to explain what the level is because I was there for four years every day and I know what we have to do if we want to get there. Not just for one season, but for the rest, but we are on the right track.
Mikel Arteta saw his team fall short in their quest to win the Premier League on Sunday.
Arsenal accumulated 89 points, but it was still not enough to prevent Manchester City from winning their fourth consecutive title.
“We’re on the right trajectory and now we really need to grit our teeth and bite it because we really want more.”
The Gunners stayed in contention until the final day after a minor wobble in December, which saw them lose to West Ham and Fulham.
“Since December we have been on an incredible journey,” Arteta said. ‘Every performance has been at the highest level we have seen, and it still wasn’t enough.
‘The staff have done an incredible job. “They have surpassed all the limits, all the margins that we could find to try to win this Premier League and unfortunately it was a little short and we couldn’t deliver the big prize that we wanted.”
Arteta is clear about where Arsenal lost the title.
And he added: “Surely Aston Villa at home (in April), in the first half it should have been 4-0.” Maybe the story would have been different. The margins are very, very small.
“And that is the credit that the club and the team must take because they are doing it against the best team in the history of the Premier League by far.”
