Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said the north London club needed changes in the squad to turn their fortunes around after a disappointing season, and added that he was confident the club owners would back him.
Arsenal was knocked out of the second-tier Europa League on Thursday and sit 10th in the Premier League, facing the prospect of no European football for the first time in 25 years.
“The squad needs changing,” the Spaniard was quoted as saying in British media before Sunday’s home game against West Bromwich Albion.
“There were already a lot of changes in December, something that has not been done in years, but it tells us where we were. Things are going to have to change …
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