Jamie Carragher doubles down on evaluating Mikel Arteta to Jose Mourinho as he insists the Arsenal boss does not possess the ‘attacking high quality’ that title rivals Man Metropolis have

Jamie Carragher has insisted Mikel Arteta is adopting a Jose Mourinho-esque fashion of play in a bid to compete with title rivals Manchester Metropolis.

The Gunners have recorded back-to-back second place finishes and took Pep Guardiola’s aspect proper right down to the wire final season earlier than Metropolis recorded a history-making fourth consecutive league title.

Nonetheless, regardless of going unbeaten of their first seven league video games this season, Arsenal now discover themselves in a precarious place, with Saturday’s defeat by Newcastle marking three video games with no win.

Talking following the membership’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool final month Carragher claimed Arteta is ‘slowly morphing right into a Jose Mourinho-type supervisor’ sparking backlash from followers.

The previous Liverpool defender has since doubled down on his evaluation, and claimed Arsenal’s comparative lack of firepower within the last third has led to Arteta adopting the method. 

The previous Liverpool defender added Arsenal are prioritising physicality to make up for his or her attacking deficiencies compared with Man Metropolis

Mourinho gained three Premier League titles throughout two separate spells at Chelsea

‘Anybody who thinks I simply plucked this Jose Mourinho factor out to form of create a negativity round us, will not be analysing precisely the place Arsenal are going.’ Carragher mentioned on Sky Sports activities.

‘If folks do not agree with that, I do not assume you are really watching what is going on on with Arsenal proper now. 

‘I believe Mikel Arteta feels he does not have the attacking high quality that Manchester Metropolis have. 

‘So he is going one other solution to try to win the league, which is being sturdy defensively and a extra highly effective workforce.’

Carragher added that the membership’s summer time arrivals, defender Riccardo Calafiori and midfielder Mikel Merino embody the type of bodily fashion that Mourinho utilised to such success throughout his two spells at Chelsea. 

‘They get bullied at Manchester Metropolis’s floor and in direction of the tip of the season, lose the title. And I believe there is a feeling that we’re not sturdy sufficient, we’re not highly effective sufficient, proper?

Carragher added that the Gunners’ summer time recruitment together with the signing of Mikel Merino highlighted their change in method

‘So once I discuss the place this workforce is morphing to, I do not simply pluck at an announcement out to try to create headlines and it isn’t a criticism. It is an evaluation that this workforce has gone from intricate gamers to sturdy highly effective gamers.

‘This summer time, Calafiori once more, he is a middle again taking part in left again and Merino is available in 6ft 2in midfield participant who really, when he joined the membership mentioned “once I went to the dressing room, I felt like I used to be with a basketball workforce, not a soccer workforce” as a result of the scale of all of the gamers. 

‘This isn’t a criticism, that is an evaluation of the place Mikel Arteta is attempting to take this workforce and the way he is attempting to win the Premier League title.’