'And behind all that uncertainty come Arteta and Arsenal. Where the hivemind knows exactly what it expects despite all the changes and enticing potential for further improvement: that Arteta will be Arteta and Arsenal will be Arsenal.'
The pre-season hivemind has Arsenal as the weakest of the Big Six and that’s mainly a judgement on Mikel Arteta.
Anyway, as we strive desperately and tangentially towards something approaching a point, the key learnings from this season’s antepost odds is that 2022/23 is going to be all about the Big Six but that Arsenal have still convinced absolutely nobody. And really it’s hard to conclude that this reflects anything other than a lack of belief in the manager Mikel Arteta. This season, for the first time since taking the Arsenal job, he has absolutely no cover. He has no canary down the mine. For the first time, this promising yet unproven manager faces down a top six who have all decided to have proper managers.
Their squad stands up against any bar the obvious big two. Yet they are three times Spurs’ price with the bookmaking hivemind for both the title and a top-four finish. Spurs have clearly also improved their squad, but by so much as to explain that kind of gulf? Not really. But it is the comparison between Arsenal and the rest of the Big Six that most clearly highlights this difference.
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