The Athletic. Well, they've pushed Manchester City all the way this season, which is no easy feat.

Just ask Liverpool. But expectations have skyrocketed. Champions League football is back.

And whether they finish as champions or not, the future appears to be bright.

So what do Mikhail Artes's arsenal need to do to get to the next level

and how will the way they operate need to change? I'm Mark Chapman. This is the Athletic Football

podcast.

Towards Gabriel Jesus. We've pulled it back and Shaka can dig it out, that Gabriel Jesus come.

I wake up in the morning and I cannot wait to start working and what we're going to do and how we're going to maintain that.

And I know that we are taking those players to the limit, to the very, very, very limit to be where we are. But this is the only way to do it with this group of players, to be where we are. But at the same time, I think you have to look at where Arsenal, where last year, and where they are today. There is a progress in this football club. And, of course, the players in the dressing room, they will want to win the title. I think Arsenal are now moving to a more mature stage of their development,

where they're going to try and bring in some really high-level players and with experience

as well as they move into the Champions League.

So joining us for this one from The Athletic, our football news correspondent David Ornstein,

former Arsenal football, the term broadcaster, Adrian Clark, who has a big smile on his face

after the 3-1 win over Chelsea last night. When you watched them last night, Adrian, did it show both why they are at the top,

but also maybe why they will finish behind Manchester City? Yeah, I think that's probably a good way

of putting it. Yeah, I agree. It was just the kind of night where Arsum needed to put on a bit of a

performance, lift spirits, put smiles on faces.

And they definitely did that in the first half, didn't they?

I mean, wow, that was pretty one-sided.

As one-sided, as I can remember, an Arsenal game at Emirates Stadium, great movement, good

attitude, aggression in everything that they wanted to do.

And yeah, they looked a cut above, didn't that?

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