Mikel Arteta has committed his future to Arsenal by penning a new long-term contract with the club. (More Football News)
Arteta to🔯ok charge of the Gunners in December 2𝔉019 following Unai Emery's exit and has led them to successive second-placed Premier League finishes in the last two seasons.
The Sp✃aniard, who made 150 appearances for Arsenal as a player between 2011👍 and 2016, also oversaw an FA Cup final victory over Chelsea in 2020 and has lifted the Community Shield on two occasions as the Gunners' head coach.
Arteta had entered the final 12 months of h☂is contract at the Emirates Stadium, but reports earlier this week♏ claimed he had agreed a new deal to run until 2027.
Arsenal confirmed𓆏 he had put pen to paper on Thursday, with co-chairman Josh Kroenke telling the 🍸club's website: "We're delighted to have extended Mikel's contract.
"Mikel is a dynamic and passionate manager, who is relentless in the pursuit of excellence.🅘
"He has a deep understanding of Arsenal's val🃏ues, and since joining us as head coach in December 2019, he has taken the team to another level in an 🦋Arsenal way.
"There is a great collective team spirit at the cဣlub, and with the strong relationships we hold between us and belief in what we do, we look forward with excitement and confidence, as we continue our aim – to win together."
Arteta has overseen 235 competitive games in charge of Arsenal, recording 139 victories for a 59.15% win ratio, with the Gunners s⭕coring 437 goals and conceding 233 during that time.
The Gunners have improved their Premier League point🔯s tally in each of his four full seasons at the helm, going from eighth-placed finishers with 61 points in 2020-21 to runners-up to Manchester City with 89 points last term.
He has won 105 of hiไs 175 Premier League matches in charge. Of Arsenal managers in the competition's history, excluding Pat Rice, who only oversaw three matches, Arteta has the best win percentage (60%).
Arteta tꩲold Arsenal's website: "I feel extremely proud, very excited and am looking forward to wha🅺t is coming next.
"I'm proud to be where I am and have the relat💝ionships tha💙t I have with everyone at the club. I feel extremely lucky to work every single day with good people and the ambition we have here.
"I feel ve🉐ry inspired, I feel challenged, I feel supported and I want to do much more than what we’ve already done together."
Arsenal have taken seven points from their first three games of the Premier League season and face Tottenham in the f🌼irst north London derby of the campaign on Sunday.
