Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has admitted his side are ‘a long way’ from where they need to be and says a ‘lot of changes’ need to be implemented at the club in the future.
The Gunners have already lost four league games this season, the most recent coming in a disappointing 3-0 defeat at home to Aston Villa prior to the international break.
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Arteta, who led the Gunners to FA Cup glory over former side Manchester City in August, remains convinced the club are heading in the right direction though.
He told the club’s website: “We’re a long way, I’m afraid. It’s part of a process.
“The results have to be immediate, and the challenge we have with the club we are representing is that we have to win as quickly as possible every game in every competition.
“So far we have played 14 games in all competitions this season, we won 10 and lost four and the four of them have been in the Premier League, so it is a little bit imbalanced.
“There are a lot of things to do, short term and medium term, we have seen a lot of changes not only on the pitch but structurally as a club as well, it’s been difficult, it’s been a challenging time in the last three or four months, a lot of things have happened.”
Arteta, 38, believes the future is bright at the Emirates and maintains they must be ‘really critical’ of themselves when negative results arise.
He added: “We have to settle and everyone has to realise where we are now, but I see the future as really bright.
“I am a really positive person and I tend to learn much more when things don’t go well and we have a defeat like we had the other day that really hurt after the performance we had at Old Trafford.
“We have to understand why it happened, be really critical first of all with myself and try to understand the players better, and give them more solutions to win more football matches.”
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