Hector Bellerin and Gary Neville agree on Premier League title winner as Saka Arsenal point made

Former Arsenal star Hector Bellerin and Gary Neville appear in the minority regarding their 2023/24 Premier League title prediction. The Gunners currently sit third in the table on 27 points behind reigning champions Manchester City and Liverpool with 12 games played and just one defeat.

Mikel Arteta and Edu recruited significantly in the summer in an attempt to bolster the Arsenal squad for another title charge. The north Londoners were top of the league for the bulk of the previous season before a dip in form and an injury to William Saliba saw them narrowly miss out.

However, they have bounced back from heartbreak efficiently with Arteta making a number of small tactical changes. Having now been manager of the club for four years, the squad at his disposal are almost all his signings with a number of fringe players moved on in the summer.

That process had already began in earlier windows with Bellerin as one player leaving the club after nearly a decade in the senior team. However, there is clearly no hard feelings from his perspective with now Real Betis star backing Arsenal to win the Premier League after dishing out significant praise on Arteta.

«He's constantly learning and that's what is good about him,» he said of Arteta in an interview with Sky Sports. «He's able to adapt, learn from his mistakes and to become a new Arteta every season. When he was a player, he was already coaching some of us and you could see he had great ideas. I remember he would talk to us about how he thinks the game would go and how we should press. It was great and we all kind of knew he would step up a be a manager.

»For sure. There was some very young players in that team but now they have a lot of experience like Bukayo [Saka] himself and