Arsenal title blow gives new Mikel Arteta deal greater purpose amid Champions League requirement

I know this is probably the last thing that you'd like to be thinking about and rightfully so. Optimism should be allowed to run wild in the hope that Manchester City forget their old ways and somehow drop points in their next three games, but the sobering reality is that they will not.

Therefore, I would like to discuss ahead of that potential eventuality what that means for Arsenal. Where does it leave a club who have invested so much financially and physically in the last two seasons and yet will have emerged with no silverware?

From a player's perspective, the messaging appears very clear. Gabriel Jesus was asked this very question and his answer is entirely unsurprising for a player under Mikel Arteta's guidance.

«Please keep supporting us and believing in us, and sometimes if that doesn't work, keep supporting us! Because football is like this – sometimes you win, sometimes not, but we are working hard to make the fans happy and we're going in the right direction to fight for titles every season,» Jesus said.

«It doesn't happen straight away. Last year was important but unfortunately, we didn't win. We're fighting again this year and if we don't win it this time we'll go again next season. That's the most important thing.»

The aforementioned manager Arteta has said similar things in press conferences too. Speaking ahead of a must-win North London Derby which would continue their hopes of a title, he said very similar to his Brazilian striker.

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«I hope so but that's something that you're going to have to show every season, every game and in