{"id":516481,"date":"2026-08-16T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=516481"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:41:02","slug":"arteta-the-new-epl-head-coach-will-raise-arsenals-level","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-the-new-epl-head-coach-will-raise-arsenals-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta: The new EPL head coach will raise Arsenal&#8217;s level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shared his view about the competition in the Premier League ahead of the new season and claimed that the arrival of Enzo Maresca and a raft of new head coaches in the league this campaign could push the Gunners to another level.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel and Maresca will face each other for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since the Italian took over from Pep Guardiola in today\u2019s Community Shield in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta backed the Italian to do &#8220;amazing work&#8221; with the Sky Blues now 1 of the 9 EPL teams with new head coaches in the current campaign. The changes only make the Gunners the favorite to win the Premier League again.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel shared that not only Manchester City, but also other teams will be competition for the title this season:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sky Blues will be a huge competitor for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place even without Guardiola, but we have a lot of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the players that each team has and the managers, you see how strong a lot of teams are right now in the league, but we know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager added that they need to focus on themselves and raise the level even higher than in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why a crackdown on set-pieces could leave Arsenal exposed as Mikel Arteta reveals Gunners are looking to adapt to new rules\ud83e\udd14\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3AAg7vcCCw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3AAg7vcCCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Mail Sport (@MailSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MailSport\/status\/2088881684460499321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shared his view about the competition in the Premier League ahead of the new season and claimed that the arrival of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":516482,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[366,1076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Mikel spoke about the competition in the league.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516483,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516481\/revisions\/516483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516481"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=516481"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=516481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}