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What Arsenal staff members are now saying about Manchester City ahead of Sunday’s clash
Arsenal and Manchester City meet in a potential Premier League title decider at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola ⛎has the chance to leapfrog his close♔ friend Mikel Arteta with a win – although victory for the Gunners could put them three points clear at the top if Liverpool lose to Brighton.
Arsenal have unquestionably become a far stronger force in recent years – having previously paled in comparison to Manchester City – and the narrowing gap between both sides has actually been a topic of conversation amongst th🦋ose inside the Emirates Stadium…
What those inside Arsenal have been saying about Manchester City
Well – to put it simply – Arsenal now believe Manchester City are a bit more fearful of them, and feel the Citizens view the Gunn⛄ers differently to how they did just a matter of seasons ago.
That is according to sources close to the .
It is said that Manchester City were more than happy to bolster Arsenal’s squad by selling Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenkಌo to the Gunners back in the summer of 20🍷22.
However, Manchester City are said to have been significantly less cooperative when Arsenal tried to sign Joao Cancelo in the su𓄧mmer of 2023 – having almost just lost the꧅ Premier League title to the north Londoners.
That summer also saw Arsenal beat Manchester City to the £105m signing of Decl⛦an Rice – providing further evidence that the tables may slowly be starting to turn in English foo▨tball.
Of course, nobody will genuinely think Arsenal have flipped Eng♊lish football on its head until Arteta matches Guardiola’s haul of five Premier League titles, although the north Londoners are definitely building foundations to mount a sustainable period of success like that.
Mikel Arteta deserves huge credit
Just a couple⛎ of years ago, the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester City seemed to be an elite group which no other Premier League side coulඣd gatecrash.
Arsenal were – contrastingly – something of a laughing stock as Unai Emery struggled to get anywhere with the likes of Shkodran Mustafi at the back, and it felt as if the Gunners were many years away from cha꧋llenging.
Now – however – Arteta has Arsenal sat🧜 top of the Premier League, with Manchester C𝔍ity taking the north Londoners far more seriously than they once did.
To reach the elite levels of Manchester City and Liverpoo💮l in just a couple of years shows just how talented a🍰 coach the Spaniard really is.
As Arteta becomes more experienced and more familia🔥r with title races, Arsenal are surely bound to become even stronger.