Mikel Arteta sign new Arsenal contract
Mikel Arteta and Arsenal women manager Jonas Eidevall signs new contract at the same time.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has signed a new contract with the Gunners that will see he stay till 2025.
Arteta has been incredible for Arsenal since his arrival in 2019 and has got them competition for the Champions League spot.
Arteta told the Arsenal club website: “I’m excited, grateful and really, really happy today.
“When I spoke to Josh [Kroenke] he could see the club at the same point and he wanted to take the club the way I wanted to do it. So everything that he’s said, and that Stan [Kroenke] has said when I’ve been together with both of them, they’ve always delivered.
“We want to take the club to the next level and to compete really with the top teams. In order to do that, we have to be playing in the Champions League.
“We have to be able to evolve the team, improve our players, improve all departments, generate even more connection with our fans, improve the atmosphere at the Emirates, be able to recruit top, top talent and the best people for this club to drive this project to that level.”
Meanwhile Arsenal women manager Eidevall, who has Arsenal in contention for the Women’s Super League title heading into the final weekend, has signed a contract to the end of the 2023-24 season.
“It’s great,” he said. “It allows me to continue to work for a club that I love so much and be around people that I really, really like, and to be able to achieve things together, so I’m really looking forward to that.”