Former skipper Arteta named Arsenal manager

Arteta, who made 149 appearances for Arsenal between 2011 and 2016 before joining Manchester City’s coaching staff as Pep Guardiola’s assistant, replaces fellow Spaniard Unai Emery at the Emirates Stadium. “This is a huge honour. Arsenal is one of the biggest clubs in the world. We need to be competing for the top trophies in the game,” the former Arsenal captain said in a statement here.

“We all know there is a lot of work to be done to achieve that but I am confident we’ll do it. I’m realistic enough to know it won’t happen overnight but the current squad has plenty of talent and there is a great pipeline of young players coming through from the academy.” Arsenal is 10th on the Premier League table, seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, after five victories in 17 matches this season. It next travels to 16th-placed Everton for Saturday’s early kick-off. Emery was sacked last month after Arsenal’s 1-2 Europa League home defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt, a result that extended the side’s winless run in all competitions to seven games, its worst streak since February 1992 under George Graham.