I want fighters not victims, says Arsenal boss Arteta

The Spaniard is favorite to be the following Premier League supervisor to be fired as the nice and cozy glow of FA Cup success final season has evaporated quick.

Arsenal are 15th within the desk and and not using a Premier League win since November 1. They’ve accrued simply two factors within the final seven video games and are solely 4 factors above the relegation zone.

The one respite for Arteta — who has been within the publish for simply over a yr — has come within the cup competitions.

They’re by means of to the knockout rounds of the Europa League and on Tuesday they face Manchester Metropolis — the place he minimize his teaching enamel as assistant to Pep Guardiola — within the League Cup quarter-finals.

“You might have two kinds of folks: fighters and victims,” mentioned Arteta. “You want fighters and you don’t need any victims.

“Victims deliver excuses, victims deliver negativity and so they begin to blame something that’s occurring round them or is just not going their approach.

“You want individuals who combat, individuals who contribute and people who find themselves prepared to present every little thing to the membership on this second.”

‘One step nearer’

Arteta says he ignores what’s written about him and the membership, insisting that every one that issues is the sensation throughout the membership — and there, he claims, it’s a wholly supportive ambiance.

“Clearly a membership of this stature deserves the very best and when it’s not occurring, everybody goes to query what is occurring,” he mentioned.

“I’m probably the most accountable one when it comes to outcomes, so I’ve to just accept that.”

Arteta mentioned the quarter-final towards the holders gives a welcome distraction from their underwhelming league marketing campaign.

“That is what we need to use it for (a distraction), in addition to a contest we need to attempt to win,” mentioned Arteta.

“We now have two tough opponents earlier than in Leicester and Liverpool, we managed to beat them each and now we’re enjoying at house and we’re one step nearer to Wembley.

“So it’s a very nice sport to play, as that is the kind of sport we’re in search of by means of the season.”

Nonetheless, he admits profitable the trophy wouldn’t be enough to counter-balance a poor Premier League marketing campaign.

“It is not sufficient, isolating only one competitors,” mentioned Arteta. “We now have a very nice alternative as a result of we have completed rather well within the competitors this yr and tomorrow’s sport is one other step ahead to be nearer to profitable one other trophy.

“However this does not imply that it’ll mirror on the remaining or it’ll look higher as a result of for the time being — no matter occurs in some other competitors — within the Premier League we’re nowhere close to the place we ought to be.”

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