Arteta on big Arsenal summer: I feel goosebumps

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta has said helium has "goosebumps" reasoning up to the commencement of adjacent play and believes his squad is lone missing a "little percentage" successful their quest for large honours.

The northbound London broadside finished 2nd successful the Premier League for the 3rd consecutive play this twelvemonth and, having besides fallen abbreviated successful the cupful competitions, Arteta has made it wide large changes are coming successful the transportation market.

Arteta told Sky Sports past week that a "very breathtaking summer" was successful store and aft the 2-1 win implicit Southampton connected the past time of the league season, helium reiterated his enthusiasm.

Asked erstwhile helium starts focusing connected adjacent season, Arteta said: "Now, due to the fact that time we already person immoderate things that we are discussing and making decisions.

"Everything that is planned for preseason and the archetypal fewer weeks of the play has already been done 2 oregon 3 months ago, truthful we are present truly good.

"And the infinitesimal I commencement to deliberation astir that, I consciousness goosebumps and excitement, and this is simply a truly bully motion always."

Arteta, banned from the touchline, sat alongside co-chair Josh Kroenke astatine St Mary's connected Sunday.

Martin Ødegaard scored the victor for Arsenal arsenic they finished their play with a win, aft Kieran Tierney netted the opener successful what volition beryllium his past crippled for the club.

"I'm precise blessed to decorativeness [the season] winning the match," Arteta said. "We wanted to permission that dressing country with a affirmative energy, with a bully vibe. We had to accidental goodbye arsenic good to a fewer players that won't beryllium with america adjacent season, that was rather affectional arsenic well, I deliberation they deserved their appreciation and a bully vibe astir it.

"We've done it and present we're going to person plentifulness of clip to think, to analyse what happens successful the season, to larn from it for sure, to instrumentality each the unthinkable affirmative things that the squad has done regarding the circumstances and think, okay, however tin we present spell into that small percent that is missing to get wherever we want."

Questioned connected that "little percentage" and whether Arsenal volition beryllium signing a striker to improve, the Spaniard added: "In bid to execute that, a batch of things person to happen. The squad has to provide, that subordinate has to play a definite magnitude of minutes and games.

"Believe me, we are connected it. We volition effort to compression and deliberation and crook each chromatic that we perchance can, to marque this nine adjacent much successful."

Arteta besides said his players were "100%" inspired by the women's team, aft their unexpected Champions League triumph implicit Barcelona connected Saturday.

"We were each watching it, we were successful 2 antithetic buses connected our travel to Southampton and we were watching it and I deliberation it was incredible," helium said.

"First, the mode they played and the mode they played against that Barcelona team, I deliberation it was again a lawsuit of that resilience, that quality due to the fact that done the play they person had a batch of issues and the mode they person managed to crook that astir and triumph the Champions League, it's unbelievable.

"That's what we privation and they've done it and they've done it successful a mode that represents the nine successful an unthinkable way."