{"id":1529,"date":"2026-05-25T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:21:43","slug":"arsenal-have-two-out-of-three-things-needed-for-era-of-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal have two out of three things needed for era of dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>A former Arsenal player feels the club have two things needed to build an era of dominance, and if they can add one more, they could \u201cpotentially do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners won their first Premier League title for 22 years this week. When Manchester City drew to Bournemouth on Tuesday, <strong>Arsenal<\/strong> were confirmed as champions, and they picked up their crown after beating Crystal Palace on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the rhetoric for the past three years \u2013 in each of which they finished second in the league \u2013 was that they didn\u2019t have the mettle to go all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta and his men proved this season that that isn\u2019t the case, and on Saturday May 30, they have another chance to prove that, as they face holders Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wright has suggested that should the Gunners win that, then this squad will go down as the best in Arsenal\u2019s history, and the club\u2019s former women\u2019s team striker, Ellen White, feels an era of dominance could follow if they add the right players.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on that potential on Final Score, White said: \u201c<span>Arsenal have won it now. They have got the winning mentality and know what it takes to go a whole season, get over the mark and win. They have got the players. If they have a good summer recruitment wise, they could potentially do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ<\/strong><\/em>: <strong>William Saliba reveals when he knew Arsenal \u2018would win\u2019 Premier League this season \u2013 \u2018it was clear to me\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Arsenal bottlejobs no more<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Jermaine Beckford, meanwhile, praised the Gunners for managing to get over the line after three years without being able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI take my hat off to Arsenal. What Arteta did this season especially given the build up to this season and the last two, three, four years being called \u2018bottlejobs\u2019 etcetera, it was just building up to this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it was just Arteta\u2019s second piece of major silverware with the Gunners, after lifting the FA Cup in 2019\/20.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" image-id=\"ltKDFVeV27UN\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There is now a genuine chance, especially with elite boss Pep Guardiola leaving fierce title rivals Manchester City, that Arsenal could become a dominant force in English football, and ticking off a second piece of silverware this season would only further the squad\u2019s resolve in search of more titles in future.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/em>: <strong>Max Dowman breaks yet another record five days after winning Premier League with Arsenal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Arsenal player feels the club have two things needed to build an era of dominance, and if they can add one more, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}