In the league, the goal I think Arsenal should shoot for is finishing comfortably in the top five. This draw keeps us 6 points up on Forest, our closest chaser, and ten above 6th place Newcastle. I doubt that four teams will get hot enough to vault over us in the table, but to be on the safe side we'll need to win six or seven of the remaining eleven games to secure Champions' League football, which this club needs to continue to improve. ECL broadcast and prize money runs to about £80M, money that can buy a good striker and keep us on the right side of financial fair play rules.
Arteta will want to do well in the ECL knockout rounds, but it'll be tough.
Manchester City seems to get by the rules, so why can't Arsenal? MC keeps getting their decision postponed. That seems to be a fashionable legal strategy right now.
ReplyDeleteI have little doubt that Arsenal will finish in the top five. The most likely outcome I expect is for them to finish 2nd.
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