With the 2022/23 season in its final few days, Mikel Arteta has been reflecting on a campaign filled with huge positives, and assessing what needs to happen over the summer.

“Looking back, even if we’d won at Anfield and against West Ham and Southampton, we could still have finished second. In the end, you have to beat them when you go toe-to-toe with them because that’s 12 points - six more that we would have than them, and they’d have six less.”

Following Sunday’s concluding game against Wolves, attention will turn to how we can improve the squad over the summer months, as we attempt to once again be challengers at the top of the table. That challenge is something that Mikel is already relishing as he aims to build on the experiences he has gained from the 2022/23 season.

“I think we are in a moment of our journey where we have built a lot,” he added. “We have a great foundation and we have become really competitive, but now I think it is time to press the reset button, and go again.

“We have to be faster, more determined and ruthless because the dimension that opens up now is bigger but the margins are really small so we have to be really smart.”