Arsenal will begin the 2025/26 season with the aim of winning the Premier League title.
The Gunners have finished as the runners-up in each of the last three campaigns, and that has caused a bit of frustration among the fans.
Many feel this is the season in which Arsenal will finally get over the line following the addition of Martin Zubimendi and the imminent arrival of a new striker like Viktor Gyokeres.
Gunners legend Thierry Henry has now had his say.
Henry was a member of the last Arsenal squad to win the Premier League title.
That came over 20 years ago, which explains why everyone associated with the club is desperate to get their hands on the big prize.
Arsenal have been unlucky in the last three campaigns. William Saliba’s injury killed their chances in 2022/23, Manchester City went on a near-perfect run to beat them in the following year, and injuries to many key players ruined their hopes last term.
Mikel Arteta will be hoping that this is finally the season for his side, and Henry believes that his former club can do it.
The Frenchman heaped praise on the work Arteta has done and claimed that he thinks Arsenal will win the Premier League title in the upcoming campaign.
He said on the Men in Blazers podcast: “Do I think that Mikel Arteta is doing a great job? Tremendous job! Do I think he should get the sack? Hell no!
“Am I going to think that we’re going to win the league this year? Yes! It’s been good. It’s got to be better.
“I do understand when people are just saying now, ‘are we going to go over the line?’ I understand the question now, when people are like five years, second, second, second, we came short. That doesn’t mean we’re going to come short again.
“You’re not going to win all the time. But to be in a situation to win, you need to be, first and foremost, in a situation to know how to win.
“That’s what they’ve done recently. And hopefully they can go over the line.”
It is a shame that Arsenal haven’t been able to get over the line in any of the last three seasons.
That has led to a lot of mockery online, but Arteta and his men deserve big praise for being in consecutive title races without having a prolific striker.
That is set to change in the upcoming season, and once that happens, history could repeat itself.
The last time Arsenal finished second three seasons in a row – 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/2001 – Arsene Wenger’s side won the Premier League in the very next year.
Arsenal’s striker at the time, Henry, scored 32 goals and provided eight assists in all competitions that season.
