Arsenal became the new champions of England on Tuesday. In the match of the 37th round of the Premier League, Manchester City drew 1-1 away at Bournemouth, leaving them on 78 points, four behind Arsenal before the final round of the championship.
The London club ended a 22-year trophy-less run. They last won the title in 2004 when Arsene Wenger was manager, and the team consisted of the 'Invincibles' icons who won the championship without defeat.
Mikel Arteta won the title and the English people remembered what his team looked like in the first match when he managed Arsenal. It was on Christmas Day 2019. Arsenal drew with Bournemouth (1-1) in the championship and only one player from that formation remained at Arsenal.
Only Saka remained part of the team.
From Arteta's first team in December 2019, only Bukayo Saka, who has since become one of the club's icons, remains at Arsenal, starting in the left-back position.
Bernd Leno left for Fulham in the summer of 2022, Ainsley Maitland-Niles left the club in 2023 after his contract expired and is now at Lyon, while Sokratis Papastathopoulos left in January 2021 by mutual agreement and later ended his career.
David Luiz left Arsenal in the summer of 2021 and now plays for Pafos, while Lucas Torreira left for Galatasaray a year later.
Granit Xhaka moved to Bayer Leverkusen in 2023, with whom he won the Bundesliga, and is now a Sunderland player. Mesut Ozil left for Fenerbahce in January 2021 and has since retired.
Reiss Nelson is still an Arsenal player, but is currently on loan at Brentford. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang left the club in February 2022 to join Barcelona and has now returned to Marseille. Alexandre Lacazette left Arsenal in the summer of 2022 to return to Lyon and is currently playing for Saudi Arabian side Neon.
Arteta's seventh season at the club
Arteta took charge of Arsenal in December 2019, after three-and-a-half years as Pep Guardiola's assistant at Manchester City. He won the FA Cup in his first season but then went through a period of major squad changes and fluctuating results.
Under Arteta, Arsenal gradually rebuilt their squad and returned to the top of English football. The club relied on younger players such as Bukayo Saka, William Saliba, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard, and Arteta created a unique system of play with an emphasis on possession, pressing and attacking.
His greatest achievement was this season, when he won the Premier League with Arsenal and reached the Champions League final. This made him the coach who brought the club its first English championship title after a long wait and returned it to the finals of the most important European competition. /Telegraph/