Welcome everybody to the Gary Neville podcast, which takes place this weekend to the background of Arsenal's end-of-term lap of honour, which follows on from a very good 1-0 win against Newcastle here.

Fabulous score from Declan Rice, some wonderful saves from David Ryer. And Arsenal, all bar something ridiculous in terms of goal difference Gary will be the runners up again so

whilst they have a game to play what's your end of term report I think that's important

that they do finish runners up interesting listening to the three people were just

heard do interviews or speeches on the pitch Declan Rice obviously with Sky Pete speaking to

Patrick and then Martin

Erdogar the captain and Miquel Artetta all very sort of stoic in their sort of words

quite firm saying that basically they know that they've not done what they wanted to do

this season that they wanted to make this a Premier League title winning day.

Mikhail Artetta said those words himself and it's not quite there.

But this group of players have got the quality, the hunger,

and that everybody, all of them are pointing towards next season

and what's going to happen.

I said during the commentary that he pointed towards Berta,

the new sporting director, that

he said that everyone was on the same page and Josh Cronkies said that they're going to invest.

They have to bring trophies next season.

They know that.

I think they're almost sort of, if you like, fronting up in that respect.

There's no hiding place next year.

They've had reasons this season why they haven't obviously competed as well as they would have liked.

But the fact of the matter is they've fallen short and that can't continue to keep happening because it's a great football club Arsenal.

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