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A look at how Arsenal’s spending compares to that of their rivals in the Mikel Arteta era.
Mikel Arteta has been handed more than £250million this summer as Arsenal continue their relentless bid to win a Premier League title after a more than two decade-long drought.
Arsenal have come close in recent years, but Arteta has very few excuses now with the Gunners having strengthen a number of positions, signing big talents like Eberechi Eze, Viktor Gyokeres, Martin Zubimendi and others.
Arsenal have thrown their weight behind Arteta over recent years, with hundreds of millions spent, but how much have the Gunners spent compared to other clubs during that time?
We have taken a look by looking at the five-year net spend - that includes incomings and outgoings - for each Premier League club, provided by Transfermarkt, then we subtracted the summer business of 2019 due to the fact Arteta was not appointed until December 2019.
Here are the results for the top 10 spenders during that time, with the figures in euros.
Premier League net spend since Mikel Arteta was appointed at Arsenal
Man Utd - 975.88
Chelsea - 973.79
Arsenal - 857.96
Tottenham - 712.68
Newcastle United - 541.21
Man City - 489.45
Liverpool - 422.63
West Ham - 372.05
Nottingham Forest - 320.37
Aston Villa - 185.5
What Arteta has said about spending
Arteta was asked recently about the level of financial backing he has received from Arsenal over recent years, including this summer. He responded: “Yeah, that word backed, I don’t know. We try to do everything in every department to have the best possible resources, the best people, and to be as competitive as we can. That’s what we try to do when it comes to the transfer market. Instead of “backing me”, it shows the ambition of the club, the ambition of ownership, the ambition of the board, the manager, the players.
“We all want more, and if we want mor,e we have to be better, we have to make smarter decisions, we have to demand more from each other constantly. That’s what we are trying to do in every decision we have to make.”
Asked about possible exits before the end of the window on Monday, he added: “Well, we don’t know. When you shake the tree and when you bring more players, there are always things that can happen. I think the spirit of that is just to be more competitive, to be better, to learn from the past. I mean, with the squad that we had last year, we made life very, very difficult for ourselves.
“When you see the squads and the sizes of the other clubs and the resources that they have, at least that or more. So we want to be in a place where we feel very comfortable, that we have the right level of competition in the team, but as well the right characters to cooperate and understand the roles and how those roles are going to change and how important it’s going to be to accept those roles. I think we are in a really good place.”
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