Following a season which will stay in the memory of Arsenal fans for many years, Gunners’ chief Edu Gaspar has opened up about it.
The club director has been interviewed by ESPN Brasil and directly quizzed about what went wrong in the final stretch of the season, where they lost the league title to Manchester City.
Speaking to reporter João Castelo-Branco, Gaspar was asked if Arsenal bottled the title race. He didn’t quite like that term, pointing out the season as a whole was actually positive, and claimed that the Gunners are on the right path to success.
“I think it needs a little more elaborate analysis. My role makes me need to understand the season as a whole. Perhaps in these last five games, we had a drop in performance, which was sustaining us to fight for the title and be fighting for the title was really the consistency of performance. From the moment we had this drop in performance, we have to understand why. This is already well understood by us,” Edu Gaspar told ESPN Brasil.
Gaspar still highlighted the big things Arsenal have been fighting for, especially with the heavy competition.
“It makes me think about some things, that the path we are tracing at the club is being positive. We cannot forget, we are in the Premier League, coming from a club that hd not entered the Champions League for seven years, fighting with the clubs we’re fighting, potential clubs from historic gaming powerhouses and financial powerhouses, too, and now putting Arsenal where they need to be.”
In another part of the interview, Edu Gaspar also talked about the improvements that Arsenal are expected to make in their squad for next season, claiming he and Mikel Arteta already have an idea of the kind of players they’re adding to the team in the summer transfer window.
You can read that set of quotes here.
